The Times October 19, 2006
Darwin evolves on the internet
By Marcus Leroux
The accessibility of groundbreaking scientific works has taken an evolutionary step, as a project to put the works of Charles Darwin online was launched.
The website www.darwin-online.org.uk will, by the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth in 2009, host 50,000 pages of searchable text and 40,000 images of original publications.
Much of the material has come from the Darwin Archive, housed at Cambridge University, and the project is being overseen by John van Wyhe, a researcher in the history of science based at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
The website, which currently holds half of the complete work, will include unpublished notebooks and manuscripts, as well as MP3 audio files.
Dr van Wyhe, who has spent four years compiling it, added: “The idea is to make these important works as accessible as possible; some people can only get at Darwin that way.”