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Tree of Life Web Project

provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history
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Summary

Tree of Life Web Project is an online database[1]. It draws 161 Wikipedia views per month (online database category, ranking #25 of 111).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: biological database[3], knowledge organization system[4]
  • Language of work or name: English[5]
  • Inception: 1995[6]
  • Official website: http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html[7]
  • Main subject: history of life[8], biodiversity[9]
  • Described by source: Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) database[10]
  • Main Wikidata property: P5221[11], P9169[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Biosciences databases[13]
  • Announcement date: January 5, 1996[14]
  • DuckDuckGo bang: tol[15]

Why It Matters

Tree of Life Web Project has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Instance of → online database, biological database, knowledge organization system
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