Where does the EOL website originate?
The EOL website and portal are assembled and served from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. This is the home of the Biodiversity Informatics Group, which is also responsible for the technical infrastructure of EOL. The initial version of EOL is delivered from a custom-built environment with high-end servers that have been especially configured to meet the expected demand. EOL aggregates data that come from many data partners. We keep a local copy of some data but in other cases information is being drawn dynamically from a remote source and is integrated with the remaining content.
