The Origin and Early History of NOW as It Happened

Mikael Fortelius; Jordi Agustí; Raymond L. Bernor; Hans de Bruijn; Jan A. van Dam; John Damuth; Jussi T. Eronen; Gudrun Evans; Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende; Christine M. Janis; Jukka Jernvall; Anu Kaakinen; Wighart von Koenigswald; Kari Lintulaakso; Liping Liu; Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi; Hans Walter Mittmann; Diana Pushkina; Juha Saarinen; Sevket Sen; Susanna Sova; Laura K. Säilä; Alexey Tesakov; Jouni Vepsäläinen; Suvi Viranta; Innessa Vislobokova; Lars Werdelin; Zhaoqun Zhang; Indrė Žliobaitė

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

The Origin and Early History of NOW as It Happened

Mikael Fortelius^*
, Jordi Agustí
, Raymond L. Bernor
, Hans de Bruijn
, Jan A. van Dam
, John Damuth
, Jussi T. Eronen
, Gudrun Evans
, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende
, Christine M. Janis
, Jukka Jernvall
, Anu Kaakinen
, Wighart von Koenigswald
, Kari Lintulaakso
, Liping Liu
, Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi
, Hans Walter Mittmann
, Diana Pushkina
, Juha Saarinen
, Sevket Sen

Susanna Sova, Laura K. Säilä, Alexey Tesakov, Jouni Vepsäläinen, Suvi Viranta, Innessa Vislobokova, Lars Werdelin, Zhaoqun Zhang, Indrė Žliobaitė

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems
Publisher	Springer
Pages	7-32
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-17491-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-17490-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_2
Publication status	Published - 9 Aug 2023

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Name	Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
Volume	Part F1250
ISSN (Print)	1877-9077
ISSN (Electronic)	1877-9085

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Keywords

Database
Ecometrics
Fossil Mammal
Functional Trait
Species List
Stratigraphic Age

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Fortelius, M., Agustí, J., Bernor, R. L., de Bruijn, H., van Dam, J. A., Damuth, J., Eronen, J. T., Evans, G., van den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Janis, C. M., Jernvall, J., Kaakinen, A., von Koenigswald, W., Lintulaakso, K., Liu, L., Ataabadi, M. M., Mittmann, H. W., Pushkina, D., Saarinen, J., ... Žliobaitė, I. (2023). The Origin and Early History of NOW as It Happened. In Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems (pp. 7-32). (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology; Vol. Part F1250). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_2

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