Members of the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria (CLH) and the Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria (CBH) should anticipate forthcoming announcements about spring Portal Advancement Campaigns. The Symbiota Support Hub will be working with the managers of these portals to coordinate Office…
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Update: As of September 2024, image hosting services previously available through BioKIC Services are now available through KU Symbiota. The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) receives frequent inquiries about adding images to records in Symbiota portals. In February, the SSH presented…
The ASU BioKIC team is slated to release their latest version of the Symbiota codebase, Symbiota 3.1, in Spring 2024. This update will include tools to facilitate batch uploading of Linked Resources and image metadata, and it will enable the…
Become a Biodiversity Data Capacity Fellow! New in 2024! The Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference in Lawrence, Kansas (May 28 – May 31, 2024) will include a 3-hour workshop to increase capacity in the biodiversity data provider community: “Data…
2023 Highlights from the Symbiota Support Hub This year marked the second full year–and another busy one–for the Symbiota Support Hub (SSH), iDigBio’s team dedicated to the mobilization and discovery of biological collections data through Symbiota portals. The SSH is…
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…
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…