ELC WORKING GROUP

The EarthLife Consortium (ELC) seeks to make all paleobiological data easily discoverable, accessible, and analyzable, with the larger goal of understanding the interactions between the Earth's biological and geophysical systems across all timescales of the Earth's history... ELC brings together paleobiological databases so that they share a single set of Internet-based commands by which researchers and the public can easily access fossil records from all of Earth history. By coordinating with other emerging efforts in geological and biological data sharing, best practices, and protocols, we ensure that data will be freely available to all, enabling new scientific syntheses and discovery, more powerful educational opportunities, and general exploration of the history of life on Earth... Bridging paleontological and paleoecological databases with a common HTTP API interface and shared vocabulary.

Also known as: EarthLife Consortium