ELC: Introduction — EarthLife Consortium 0.1 documentation Bridging paleontological and paleoecological databases with a common HTTP API interface and shared vocabulary. Navigation Related Topics Quick search ELC Introduction The EarthLife Consortium ELC seeks to make all paleobiological data easily discoverable accessible and analyzable with the larger goal of understanding the interactions between the Earths biological and geophysical systems across all timescales of the Earths history. Overview ELC brings together paleobiological databases so that they share a single set of Internetbased commands by which researchers and the public can easily access fossil records from all of Earth history. By coordinating with other emerging efforts in geological and biological data sharing best practices and protocols we ensure that data will be freely available to all enabling new scientific syntheses and discovery more powerful educational opportunities and general exploration of the history of life on Earth.