The Symbiota Support Hub participated in multiple conferences and meetings in October-November 2025:
GB32, Living Data, GSA, ESA, & Longhorn PHP!
GB32
October 16-20, 2025, Bogotá, Colombia
gb32.gbif.org
Samanta Orellana attended the annual GBIF Governing Board Meeting and Global Nodes Training that preceeded the Living Data conference in Bogotá.
Living Data
October 21-24, 2025, Bogotá, Colombia
livingdata2025.com
Three members of the SSH attended Living Data (Ed Gilbert, Nico Franz, Samanta Orellana). The following presentations were given at the conference:
Enhancing Provenance and Interoperability in Biodiversity Informatics Through Decentralized Aggregation:
The Symbiota Model
Edward Gilbert
Portales Symbiota para la Integración de
Información de Biodiversidad en Latinoamérica
Samanta Orellana
Cinco Años del Portal de Biodiversidad de Guatemala:
Incrementando Capacidades de Movilización de Colecciones de Historia Natural con Symbiota
Samanta Orellana
Geological Society of America
October 19-22, 2025, San Antonio, TX
connects.geosociety.org
Help Desk & Outreach
The SSH assisted with an in-person Paleo Data Help Desk as part of the SPNHC exhibitor booth at GSA from Saturday evening through Wednesday. One goal of attending this conference was to increase community awareness of Symbiota’s support for the management of fossil specimen data:
Facilitating the discovery and use of paleontological specimen data Via community-driven enhancement of information ecosystems
Karim et al. – VIEW SLIDES
Longhorn PHP
October 23-25, 2025, Virtual
longhornphp.com
Greg Post and Mark Fisher from the SSH Development Team virtually attended the annual Longhorn PHP conference held in Austin, TX. They attended presentations about database optimizations, security, APIs, AI, codebase collaborations, and more.
Entomological Society of America
November 9-12, 2025, Portland, OR
entomology2025.eventscribe.net
Next week Mark Fisher will give an oral presentation at ESA’s annual meeting in Portland, OR.