The Symbiota Support Hub participated in the joint meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), September 2-6, 2024, in-person and virtually in Okinawa, Japan. Symposia Co-Organized SYM28 Scaling Up Capacity…
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Later this month, the Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) will be hosting a Portal Advancement Campaign dedicated to the Consortium of Small Vertebrate Collections (“CSVColl”) data portal community (csvcoll.org). As part of this event, we invite prospective portal users to engage with us,…
The CCH2 community showed enthusiastic support for its August 2024 Portal Advancement Campaign. Over the course of the month, Office Hours sessions were attended by 23 unique participants representing herbaria located across California and in neighboring states. Major accomplishments of the CCH2’s…
We’re moving! We are excited to announce that, as of September 2024, the iDigBio Symbiota Support Hub will officially be based out of the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum. The Symbiota Support Hub’s lead PI, Nico…
We are excited to announce the official release of Symbiota 3.1: the newest version of the Symbiota code. This code can be found in our GitHub repository: https://github.com/BioKIC/Symbiota. What does this mean for you?Over the next several months, the Symbiota Support Hub…
The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) is planning the rollout of its latest major code release to all SSH-maintained Symbiota portals. Symbiota 3.1 includes new features, bug fixes, and optimizations to improve portal functionality and further support extended specimen data. Here…
The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) and California-based herbaria will team up for a Portal Advancement Campaign for CCH2 on Tuesdays at 2p Pacific in August. Whether you’re an active portal participant or just thinking about joining, the SSH invites you…
Data Cleaning for Maximum Impact: Tools and Workflows for Data Providers to Efficiently Find and Fix Data Quality Issues Workshop Organizing Committee: Arctos (Teresa Mayfield-Meyer), iDigBio (Cat Chapman), NEON (Chandra Earl), Specify (Grant Fitzsimmons), Symbiota (Katie Pearson, Lindsay Walker), and…
In 2023, the SSH migrated 5+ million images for the CAP, Pteridophyte, SERNEC, and New England Vascular Plants (NEVP) TCNs from CyVerse to SSH-maintained servers. For ease of reference, crosswalks documenting this migration are now available on Zenodo:
In Spring 2024, the Symbiota Support Hub and the GLOBAL Management Committee presented a joint portal campaign for lichen and bryophyte herbaria. Collectively and individually, these communities contribute to two very large and active Symbiota portals, the Consortium of Lichen…