Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology
@_ Welt, Mundo, Monde, Mondo, World
Biologie, Biologie, Biology

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eol
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopédie de la vie

(E?)(L?) http://www.eol.org/

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(E?)(L?) http://www.eol.org/content/page/help_build_eol

The Encyclopedia of Life is an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public. Our goal is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s organisms. Anybody can register as an EOL member and add text, images, videos, comments or tags to EOL pages. Expert curators ensure quality of the core collection by authenticating materials submitted by diverse projects and individual contributors. Together we can make EOL the best, most comprehensive source for biodiversity information.

A few things to note:

We are committed to providing information for free, with as few restrictions on re-use as possible. Therefore all information you share with EOL must also be shared with the rest of the world under a creative commons license that allows for the creation of derivative works. See our Licensing Policy.
We are committed to clearly crediting the sources of the information we serve and urge our visitors to cite and visit the original sources.


(E?)(L?) http://www.eol.org/about

Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice.

This dream is becoming a reality through the Encyclopedia of Life.

Our Vision: Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.

Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.


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GBIF (W3)

"GBIF" steht für "Global Biodiversity Information Facility".

(E?)(L1) http://www.gbif.org/

(E?)(L1) http://www.gbif.org/GBIF_org/bg1#whyneed

Why is GBIF needed?
Good managers of natural resources and policy-makers know that their best decisions are based on results from the most accurate scientific analyses. Such analyses are based on solid, documentable data that have been recorded directly from the observation of nature. Such records are called "primary" data.

"Biodiversity" is a handy, one-word name for all the species on the Earth, the genetic variety they possess, and the ecological systems in which they participate. Another way of thinking about biodiversity is as the "living resources" portion of "natural resources". A large part of the primary data on biodiversity are the 1.5 - 2.0 billion specimens held in natural history collections, as well as many geographical and ecological observations recorded by various means and stored in various media.

In making living resource policy and management choices, decision-makers are often forced to rely on analyses that are not based on primary data. This is because the world's store of primary data about biodiversity is not at present readily and easily accessible.

Future generations depend on the efforts made today to develop methods for sustainably using biodiversity. One very important part of the solution is rapidly, openly and freely delivering primary data about biodiversity to everyone in the global community, using digital technologies. Another part is ensuring that the primary data being collected today are stored in such a way that they will remain accessible to future generations.


(E?)(L1) http://glossary.eea.eu.int/EEAGlossary
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TOL (W3)
Tree of Life Web Project
Tree of Life Glossary

"TOL" steht für "Tree Of Life".

(E?)(L1) http://www.tolweb.org/
(E?)(L1) http://www.tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/sitemap.html

Tree of Life Content: Information About Organisms
The Tree of Life currently consists of more than 3000 pages with information about different groups of organisms. This part of the website is too extensive to present a full map here.

(E?)(L?) http://www.tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/glossary.html

Tree of Life Glossary
The ToL Glossary is still under construction. We expect to greatly expand it over the next few months. The current page contains a listing of all the available ToL Glossary terms.

You can set your preferences for browsing the ToL web site so that words contained in the glossary list are highlighted on ToL pages, and definitions are displayed when you move the cursor over a highlighted word. If you would like to try this now, click on the Turn Glossary On button below, and then go to a ToL page that features some of the terms in the list below (the Eukaryotes page is a good one). Note that you can turn the Glossary function on and off on any ToL branch page, leaf page, other article, note, or treehouse. Open the preferences menu and select either Show Glossary Entries or Hide Glossary Entries.

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