In March 2023, leadership of the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium (MAHC) and the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (MAM) TCN collaborated with the Symbiota Support Hub to grow and advance their portal community.
Campaign Summary
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 portal community, many MAHC community members participated in a Portal Advancement Campaign in March 2023. Major accomplishments of the MAHC campaign included:
- Endorsing 5 new collections, making 100,526 specimen records available to the GBIF and iDigBio data portals from the HUDC, IUP, MCA, MOAR, and TAWES herbaria
- Adding 44,745 new specimen records to the portal
- Adding 2 new collections (17,750 records, 3,476 images) to the portal from the SHIP and CGCC herbaria
- Indexing 8,311 taxonomic names to the central taxonomic thesaurus, in turn making an additional 13,676 specimen records searchable in the portal
- Standardizing 616 basisOfRecord values
- Resolving 83% of reversed geographic coordinates
The Symbiota Support Hub thanks Cindy Skema, the MAHC Coordinator, and the entire MAHC community for their active engagement throughout this event.
Campaign Documents
Office Hours meetings will be held to facilitate community discussion and knowledge sharing. Recordings of these conversations will be posted below.
- March 1: Intro & Portal Housekeeping
- March 15: Data Cleaning
- March 22: Data Mobilization: From collectors to Symbiota to GBIF
- March 29: Wrap-up & Next Steps