Serageldin Discusses the Future Governance of the Encyclopedia of Life
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Alexandria—Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, meets with members of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), on Thursday, 21 January 2009, in Amsterdam, to discuss the future governance of EOL, and to recommend a governance model that fosters international participation.
The EOL is a new project to create an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.9 million species on our planet, that are currently known to science. As a collaborative effort of tens of thousands of people with expertise around the world, the EOL project aims is to make knowledge about all the world’s organisms freely available to everyone.
The EOL was founded upon a Memorandum of Understanding among six cornerstone institutions: the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.