The Symbiota Support Hub participated in two back-to-back meetings this Fall: TDWG & GB30. TDWG 2023 This year the annual Biodiversity Information Standards meeting, also known as “TDWG“, was held in Hobart, Tasmania. The Symbiota Support Hub sent two representatives to…
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In 2021, the University of California-Santa Barbara and collaborating institutions received NSF funding to capture and aggregate bee image, trait, and specimen data as part of a three-year “Big-Bee” Thematic Collections Network (Seltmann et al., 2021). Central to this project is The Bee…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in iDigBio’s BioDigiCon, September 19-20, 2023. This year’s BioDigiCon focused on digitization, data mobilization, and workforce training. The Support Hub contributed two oral presentations to this virtual event. Presentation Recordings iDigBio Domain UpdatesiDigBio Domain 6: Symbiota…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in two back-to-back meetings over the summer: Botany & ESA 2023. Botany 2023 This year the annual Botanical Society of America meeting was held in Boise, ID. The Symbiota Support Hub sent two representatives and contributed the following…
Addressing Roadblocks and Envisioning Solutions of the Digital Extended Specimen Concept On day 2 of the Digital Data Conference (June 6, 2023), Symbiota community lead Dr. Jenn Yost and collaborators Jorrit Poelen, Lindsay Walker, and Katie Pearson led over 140…
The Symbiota Support Hub and leadership of the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) invite all collections that live-manage their specimen records in SCAN to migrate their data management to Ecdysis, a Symbiota portal for live-managed arthropod collections. Since this…
Do you have a bee dataset you would like to share? Are you interested in publishing data with GBIF and the bee community? The Big-Bee TCN and the Symbiota Support Hub encourage your participation in our upcoming Portal Advancement Campaign…
In July 2023, the Symbiota Support Hub completed its ninth Portal Advancement Campaign with the Arizona-New Mexico Chapter of SEINet, the original Symbiota portal in the “SEINet” network. This campaign was the first to feature an in-person component; its kick-off…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in iDigBio’s 7th annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, June 5-7, 2023. Conference Schedule Events, symposia, and other presentations organized by the Symbiota Support Hub at the…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in SPNHC,May 28-June 2, 2023, in-person and virtually atthe California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA. The Symbiota Support Hub organized one symposium and contributed several presentations to the annual SPNHC meeting. The Hub…