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…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
iDigBio is now accepting abstracts andparticipant registration for the annualDigital Data in Biodiversity Research conference! Official event updates are available on iDigBio’s wiki. Meeting Registration Participant Category Registration Fee (USD) In-person, non student* $100 In-person, student* $50 Virtual only Optional**…
If you maintain an herbarium collection in the Mid-Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC) or Midwest (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI) regions of the U.S., the Symbiota Support Hub invites your participation in upcoming campaigns for the Mid-Atlantic…
The Symbiota Support Hub has issued a statement on cybersecurity. Read the statement here:
The Symbiota Support Hub hosted six Portal Advancement Campaigns in 2022, and these month-long events will continue in 2023. Portal campaigns are designed to help portal communities build on or reinvigorate digitization momentum. Campaign activities typically focus on improving portal…