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'''Web-based taxonomy''' is the effort by [[alphaTaxonomy taxonomy(biology)|taxonomists]] to use the [[World Wide Web]] in order to create unified, consensus taxonomies of life on Earth.

In his 2002 paper on the subject,<ref>[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v417/n6884/full/417017a.html Godfray, H.C.J (2002). Challenges for taxonomy. ''Nature'' 417: 17-19]</ref> [[H. Charles J. Godfray]] called for the creation of Web-based organisations to collect all the accumulated literature on a taxonomic group into a centralized knowledge base and make this data available through the Web as a unified taxonomy, so that it can be more easily examined and revised. Such a platform would be owned and maintained by a taxonomic working group, governed by an editor or an editorial board. An example of such a platform is [[FishBase]].

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*[http://www.catalogueoflife.org Species 2000 / ITIS Catalogue of Life]

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