The encyclopedia now has placeholder pages for one million species, of which 30,000 have been populated with detailed information. There are also about a dozen highly developed multimedia pages giving a taster of what to expect in time from the EOL.

gotta build some bigger bookshelves...an amazing project...ALLL life? wow...

This is an amazing endeavour. Truly worthy of our attention.
A pale comparison is the Tree of Life Web Project that tried to do something but leaves you wanting.

Here is the Biological Classification of Modern Humans

Taxonomy is cool.

I suspect that the Book of Life project will incorporate all this and more.

I'm giddy

You could add a tag..."Worthy"

I found the link that the article mentions

WELCOME TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE

Its a .org which means its not-for-profit.

Here is an index page

I am now logged in to the site as Skwirlinator

virtual pop

Thanks Skwirl, I've just signed up and logged in as invictus now. Pretty cool site.

Most excellent site!