December 1, 2005 (Vol. 25, No. 21)
URL:
http://www.all-species.org/
Rating:
Strong Points: Species Toolkint
Weak Points: Too much blah, blah, blah
Summary:
My analysis of this site took a sort of roller coaster approach. First, the topic was a high. With mass extinction of the planet currently underway, cataloging species while they are still with us is a very important project. As I started scrolling through the options at the site, I quickly discovered that ALL Species Foundation has lots of links that are mostly informational about the effort itself. They unfortunately provide little actual info about the species. Ouch! That was a definite low. Then, I clicked on the option entitled “Tools”, which also contained a lot of blah, blah, blah. Fortunately, a single link within Tools led me to the associated Species Toolkit search engine, which is the only gem to be had here. There is information on 873,979 species and 1,124,819 names. One however, has to sort through a lot of commercially unrelated material to find the goodies. Not the best of schemes, unfortunately.
