The Origin and Early History of NOW as It Happened
Fortelius, Mikael (University of Helsinki. Department of Geosciences and Geography)
Agustí, Jordi 1954- (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social)
Bernor, Raymond L. (Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology)
de Bruijn, Hans (University of Utrecht. Department of Earth Sciences)
van Dam, Jan (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Damuth, John (University of California. Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology)
Eronen, Jussi T. (University of Helsinki)
Evans, Gudrun (University of Helsinki)
Van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W (Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands))
Janis, Christine M. (University of Bristol)
Jernvall, Jukka (University of Helsinki. Department of Geosciences and Geography)
Kaakinen, Anu (University of Helsinki. Department of Geosciences and Geography)
Koenigswald, Wighart von (Steinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie. Bereich Paläontologie)
Lintulaakso, Kari-Erik Johannes (University of Helsinki. Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS)
Liu, Liping (Swedish Museum of Natural History. Department of Palaeobiology)
Mirzaie Ataabadi, Majid (University of Zanjan. Department of Geology)
Mittmann, Hans-Walter (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde)
Pushkina, Diana (University of Helsinki. Department of Geosciences and Geography)
Saarinen, Juha (University of Helsinki. Department of Geosciences and Geography)
Sen, Sevket (CR2P-CNRS-UPMC. Laboratoire de Paléontologie du Muséum)
Sova, Susanna (University of Helsinki. Department of Geosciences and Geography)
Säilä, Laura K. (University of Helsinki. Department of Geosciences and Geography)
Tesakov, Alexey (Russian Academy of Sciences. Geological Institute)
Vepsäläinen, Jouni (University of Helsinki. Department of Computer Science)
Viranta, Suvi (University of Helsinki. Department of Anatomy)
Vislobokova, Innessa (Russian Academy of Sciences. Borissiak Paleontological Institute)
Werdelin, Lars (Swedish Museum of Natural History. Department of Palaeobiology)
Zhang, Zhaoqun (Chinese Academy of Sciences. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology)
Žliobaitė, Indrė (University of Helsinki. Department of Computer Science)

Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023
Abstract:	The NOW database of fossil mammals came to be through a confluence of several initiatives spanning multiple decades. The first public version of NOW database was released in 1996 and the first Advisory Board was established the year after. Originally, NOW stood for Neogene of the Old World but with the gradual expansion of the database the acronym was eventually reassigned to stand for New and Old Worlds. The structure of what would become NOW was originally cloned from the ETE database of the Smithsonian Institution and the first NOW version accessible over the internet was a node of the ETE database. The first standalone, online version of NOW was launched in 2005 and the first formal steering group was established in 2009. During its existence, NOW has been funded, directly or indirectly, by several organizations but fundamentally it has always been an unfunded community effort, dependent on voluntary work by the participants.
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Language:	Anglès
Series:	Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Fossil Mammal ; Species List ; Stratigraphic Age ; Functional Trait ; Ecometrics ; Database
Published in:	Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, 2023, p. 7-32, ISBN 978-3-031-17491-9

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_2

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