Want to enhance Symbiota? Include it in your next grant! Improvements to Symbiota are primarily supported by grant-based funding. If you’re planning a collections improvement, digitization, or research project that includes the use of one or more Symbiota portals, the…
The Consortium of Midwest Herbaria showed enthusiastic support for the April 2023 Portal Advancement Campaign. Over the course of the month, Office Hours sessions were attended by 23 unique participants representing 17 herbaria from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and…
Like many collections that use Symbiota, datasets in the NEON Biorepository Data Portal are regularly published to GBIF. This includes data for a variety of taxa, including plants, animals, microbes, plankton, and many preparation types: dry, frozen, fluid preserved, slide-mounted,…
Momentum for the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium’s (MAHC) data portal was originally catalyzed through NSF funding for the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (MAM) TCN in 2016 (NSF Award #s 1601697, 1600981, 1601393, 1600976, 1601429, 1601101, 1601503). While TCN funding has sunset for this…
iDigBio is now accepting abstracts andparticipant registration for the annualDigital Data in Biodiversity Research conference! Official event updates are available on iDigBio’s wiki. Meeting Registration Participant Category Registration Fee (USD) In-person, non student* $100 In-person, student* $50 Virtual only Optional**…
If you maintain an herbarium collection in the Mid-Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC) or Midwest (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI) regions of the U.S., the Symbiota Support Hub invites your participation in upcoming campaigns for the Mid-Atlantic…
The Symbiota Support Hub has issued a statement on cybersecurity. Read the statement here:
The Symbiota Support Hub hosted six Portal Advancement Campaigns in 2022, and these month-long events will continue in 2023. Portal campaigns are designed to help portal communities build on or reinvigorate digitization momentum. Campaign activities typically focus on improving portal…
Symbiota Discussions is a forum for documenting community input that can affect how Symbiota portals are improved over time. If you have an idea for your portal–or if you just want to report a bug–the Hub strongly encourages you to…
GBIF maintains a robust system to track data usage when your specimen records are downloaded from their portal and cited properly in publications, and this information can now be displayed in your Symbiota portal. A full explanation of how these…