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…
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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…
Where? SPNHC 2025!When? Saturday, May 31, 2025 Workshop Title: Why does my Symbiota portal do that? How “back end” Symbiota architecture affects your data management experience. Workshop Abstract: Symbiota (https://symbiota.org) is a popular collection management and aggregator software used by…
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…
Code Updates The Symbiota Support Hub worked throughout the fall semester to release Symbiota 3.1 and subsequently update all SSH-hosted portals to this newest version of the Symbiota code, which includes new features and tools, bug fixes, accessibility enhancements, and a modernized…
The Symbiota* team at the University of Kansas (KU) Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum is strongly committed to providing excellent, sustainable services to the portals, projects, and data communities that we support. We are an academic group active in…
Have you seen the USDA Biocollections Portal? As of 2024, this is one of the newest Symbiota portals maintained by the Symbiota Support Hub in close partnership with the US Department of Agriculture. The USDA ARS Biocollections portal serves the…