The items below are a reference archive of messages sent to the Symbiota community during the unprecedented portal outage in late summer 2025. 9/11/2025 The Weevil Portal has been successfully restored. 9/9/2025 The following portals have now been successfully restored:…
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As part of our mission, the Symbiota Support Hub is hard at work trying to make it easier for people like you to get Help & Resources for using Symbiota portals. To this end, we have transitioned the Symbiota Docs help…
The Symbiota Support Hub is excited to announce the release of the newest version of Symbiota: Symbiota 3.3! SSH-managed* Symbiota portals that you know and love will be updated to this newest code version over the coming weeks. This code version largely…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in the annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), May 27-31, 2025in Lawrence, KS. Presentations The SSH gave the following oral presentations at the conference (slide decks below!): Mark…
As of Spring 2025, the Symbiota Support Hub is now a GBIF Network! This status better showcases the distributed, collaborative community of Symbiota portals and the people that keep them running. The Symbiota Support Hub continues to also be a…
Please register to participate! With the launch of Symbiota 3.1 came a new version of the search form intended to replace the old form. In an effort to be able to deprecate the old form, we want to make sure the new form meets…
The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) is planning the rollout of its next major code release, “Symbiota 3.2”, to all SSH-maintained Symbiota portals. Thanks to funding from multiple collaborators, we are continuing to enhance Symbiota portals like CCH2 to better meet…
Did you cite a Symbiota portal in a publication or similar work? If yes, the SSH would like to hear about it! The Symbiota Support Hub tracks the use of Symbiota portals in scientific research and related work, like specimen…
Changes to support multimedia in Symbiota portals The Symbiota Support Hub is excited to announce that audio files will be supported in the upcoming version of the Symbiota code, Symbiota 3.2. Support for audio files was funded by the Academy…
On Monday, February 3, 2025, the Symbiota Support Hub hosted an informational session with Dr. Wesley Knapp, the Chief Botanist at NatureServe, to help the Symbiota user community better understand NatureServe’s use of and requests to access redacted species data…