The Origin and Early History of NOW as It Happened
Mikael Fortelius
(1, 2)
,
Jordi Agustí
(3)
,
Raymond Bernor
(4, 5)
,
Hans de Bruijn
(6)
,
Jan van Dam
(7, 6)
,
John Damuth
(8)
,
Jussi Eronen
(9)
,
Gudrun Evans
,
Lars van den Hoek Ostende
(10)
,
Christine Janis
(11, 12)
,
Jukka Jernvall
(1)
,
Anu Kaakinen
(1)
,
Wighart von Koenigswald
(13)
,
Kari Lintulaakso
(2)
,
Liping Liu
(1, 14)
,
Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi
(15)
,
Hans-Walter Mittmann
,
Diana Pushkina
(1)
,
Juha Saarinen
(1)
,
Sevket Sen
(16)
,
Susanna Sova
(1)
,
Laura Säilä
,
Alexey Tesakov
,
Jouni Vepsäläinen
,
Suvi Viranta
,
Innessa Vislobokova
,
Lars Werdelin
,
Zhaoqun Zhang
,
Indrė Žliobaitė
1
Department of Geosciences and Geography [Helsinki]
2 LUOMUS - Finnish Museum of Natural History
3 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
4 Howard University College of Medicine [Washington, DC, USA]
5 Smithsonian Institution
6 Faculty of Geosciences [Utrecht]
7 UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
8 UC - University of California
9 Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences [Helsinki]
10 Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden]
11 School of Earth Sciences [Bristol]
12 Brown University
13 Universität Bonn = University of Bonn
14 Department of Palaeobiology [Stockholm]
15 ZNU - University of Zanjan
16 CR2P - Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris
2 LUOMUS - Finnish Museum of Natural History
3 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
4 Howard University College of Medicine [Washington, DC, USA]
5 Smithsonian Institution
6 Faculty of Geosciences [Utrecht]
7 UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
8 UC - University of California
9 Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences [Helsinki]
10 Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden]
11 School of Earth Sciences [Bristol]
12 Brown University
13 Universität Bonn = University of Bonn
14 Department of Palaeobiology [Stockholm]
15 ZNU - University of Zanjan
16 CR2P - Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris
Gudrun Evans
- Function : Author
Hans-Walter Mittmann
- Function : Author
Sevket Sen
- Function : Author
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Laura Säilä
- Function : Author
Alexey Tesakov
- Function : Author
Jouni Vepsäläinen
- Function : Author
Suvi Viranta
- Function : Author
Innessa Vislobokova
- Function : Author
Lars Werdelin
- Function : Author
Zhaoqun Zhang
- Function : Author
Indrė Žliobaitė
- Function : Author
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 in2009. 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.