Invitation to Join Ecdysis

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…

Coming Soon: Bee Data Mobilization Campaign

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…

SEINet Campaign Recap

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…

Digital Data 2023

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…

SPNHC 2023

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…

Summer Conferences

Digital Data at ASU If you’re attending iDigBio’s Digital Data Conference at Arizona State University, several Symbiota-coordinated sessions and events will be happening that week, including: a SEINet Luncheon (register), Symbiota Skillshare, a themed discussion/workshop on the Extended Specimen, a…

Find Funding for Your Projects–and Symbiota

Want to enhance Symbiota? Include it in your next grant! Improvements to Symbiota are primarily supported by grant-based funding. If you’re planning a collections improvement, digitization, or research project that includes the use of one or more Symbiota portals, the…

Midwest Herbaria Campaign Recap

The Consortium of Midwest Herbaria showed enthusiastic support for the April 2023 Portal Advancement Campaign. Over the course of the month, Office Hours sessions were attended by 23 unique participants representing 17 herbaria from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and…

Publishing Environmental Data from Symbiota

Like many collections that use Symbiota, datasets in the NEON Biorepository Data Portal are regularly published to GBIF. This includes data for a variety of taxa, including plants, animals, microbes, plankton, and many preparation types: dry, frozen, fluid preserved, slide-mounted,…

MAHC Campaign Recap

Momentum for the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium’s (MAHC) data portal was originally catalyzed through NSF funding for the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (MAM) TCN in 2016 (NSF Award #s 1601697, 1600981, 1601393, 1600976, 1601429, 1601101, 1601503). While TCN funding has sunset for this…