The Big-Bee TCN (NSF 2102006)—which has catalyzed and supported the Bee Library since 2021—wrapped up its final digitization activities in August 2025. At the conclusion of the project, the portal contained over 4.1 million bee occurrence records of which 531k…
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In the final year of it’s current funding cycle (NSF Award 2027654), iDigBio is coordinating the ongoing webinar series, Sustaining Collections Digitization Beyond NSF Funding, which highlight innovations, workflows, and institutional strategies aimed at ensuring the long-term sustainability of digitization…
The Symbiota* team at the University of Kansas (KU) Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum is strongly committed to providing excellent, sustainable services to the portals, projects, and data communities that we support. We are an academic group active in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…