Dion Hinchcliffe has a piece entitled Creating real business value with Web 2.0 which lists AntBase.org (I think he actually means AntWeb) as an example of a non-commercial Web 2.0 service that demonstrates "scalable marshalling of underutilized data resources," and shows:
...how a scientific community turned massive taxonomy resources otherwise mouldering away in basements as lost specimens into a thriving online database of information that can be shared by all. Understanding the success and importance of both of these points to intriguing and largely unexploited possibilities that I predict will become more common and widespread in the near future.
The article comes with this graphic:
See also Dion's Thinking in Web 2.0: Sixteen ways (via Danny Ayers).
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