Organization:All Species Foundation
The All Species Foundation (stylized as ALL Species Foundation) was an organization aiming to catalog all species on Earth by 2025 through their All Species Inventory initiative.[1] The project was launched in 2000 by Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan.[2][3] Along with other similar efforts, the All Species Foundation was promoted as an important step forward in expanding, modernizing and digitizing the field of taxonomy.[4] The Foundation started with a large grant from the Schlinger Foundation but had difficulty finding continued funding.[5] (As of 2007) the project is no longer active and "hands off [its] mission to the Encyclopedia of Life".[2]
The All Species Foundation received some critique for its approach to defining and identifying species. An open letter expressed concern over the species problem, a fundamental issue in taxonomy of what exactly defines a species. The letter argued that failing to acknowledge and account for this fundamental issue could undermine the use of the database for conservation and biodiversity preservation.[6]
See also
- Catalogue of Life
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Earth BioGenome Project
- Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project
- Wikispecies
References
- ↑ "A Call for the Discovery of All Life-Forms on Earth". http://www.all-species.org/call.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kelly, Kevin. "Biography". https://kk.org/biography.
- ↑ Hitt, Jack (December 9, 2001). "THE YEAR IN IDEAS: A TO Z.; The All-Species Inventory". https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/the-year-in-ideas-a-to-z-the-all-species-inventory.html.
- ↑ Gewin, Virginia. "All living things, online". Springer Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/418362a.
- ↑ "History". http://www.all-species.org/history.html.
- ↑ "Letter to the All Species Foundation". https://bio.cst.temple.edu/~hey/pdf/unpublished/Letter_to_All_Species_Foundation.pdf.
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