SPNHC 2025

The Symbiota Support Hub participated in the annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), May 27-31, 2025in Lawrence, KS. Presentations The SSH gave the following oral presentations at the conference: Mark Fisher: Symbiota 3.2:…

Workshop: Why does my Symbiota portal do that?

Where? SPNHC 2025!When? Saturday, May 31, 2025 Workshop Title: Why does my Symbiota portal do that? How “back end” Symbiota architecture affects your data management experience. Workshop Abstract: Symbiota (https://symbiota.org) is a popular collection management and aggregator software used by…

SPNHC-TDWG 2024

The Symbiota Support Hub participated in the joint meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), September 2-6, 2024, in-person and virtually in Okinawa, Japan. Symposia Co-Organized SYM28 Scaling Up Capacity…

Digital Data 2024: Workshop Report

Data Cleaning for Maximum Impact: Tools and Workflows for Data Providers to Efficiently Find and Fix Data Quality Issues Workshop Organizing Committee: Arctos (Teresa Mayfield-Meyer), iDigBio (Cat Chapman), NEON (Chandra Earl), Specify (Grant Fitzsimmons), Symbiota (Katie Pearson, Lindsay Walker), and…

Upcoming Data Cleaning Workshop

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…

TDWG 2023 & GB30

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…

BioDigiCon 2023

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…

ESA & Botany 2023

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…

DES Workshop Report

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…

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…