"Hail to thee, Nature, thou parent of all things!" Thus spake Pliny the Elder, author of "Naturalis Historia," the world's first encyclopedia (and one of the first books ever printed after the invention of the printing press).
In his tome, written in 77 AD, Pliny attempted to gather all of the world's knowledge. Hilltromper's Pliny 2.0 Natural History encyclopedia will have similarly grand ambitions—but not nearly as broad as those of its namesake.
Hilltromper's Pliny 2.0 will be an accessible, well-written, beautifully designed description of the plants and animals that make each place unique. It will not be a Channel per se; instead it will connect to the Place Pages via hyperlinked text, embedded in descriptions and/or included in a list.
Like much of the content on Hilltromper, the bulk of the text for the Pliny Pages will be compiled using journalistic methods; we will contract with freelance writers to interview experts such as park rangers, naturalists and docents. We will find photographs and videos made by loccal artists and/or on sites such as Wikimedia Commons.
The Pliny Pages will expand as members of the Hilltromper community contribute their photographs and descriptions. While not technically a wiki, it will utilize some of the logic and techniques employed by crowd-sourced sites such as Wikipedia.
See some samples from the Pliny 2.0 encyclopedia below.
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