Science Project: Catalog All Species

Project strives to make the world's biodiversity data on specimens available scientific databases all around the world. An interoperable network of the appropriate biodiversity databases and information technology tools is being developed. ...

... "The project, involving some 3,000 biologists, is led by Prof Orrell and Prof Frank Bisby, of the University of Reading. According to Prof Bisby, several thousand new species are discovered every year. " ...

Via Scotsman: Million Organisms Identified