Symbiota-mediated Research

Did you cite a Symbiota portal in a publication or similar work? If yes, the SSH would like to hear about it! The Symbiota Support Hub tracks the use of Symbiota portals in scientific research and related work, like specimen…

NatureServe & Your Collections Data

On Monday, February 3, 2025, the Symbiota Support Hub hosted an informational session with Dr. Wesley Knapp, the Chief Botanist at NatureServe, to help the Symbiota user community better understand NatureServe’s use of and requests to access redacted species data…

USDA Biocollections Portal

Have you seen the USDA Biocollections Portal? As of 2024, this is one of the newest Symbiota portals maintained by the Symbiota Support Hub in close partnership with the US Department of Agriculture. The USDA ARS Biocollections portal serves the…

Symbiota Support Hub Transition News

We’re moving! We are excited to announce that, as of September 2024, the iDigBio Symbiota Support Hub will officially be based out of the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum. The Symbiota Support Hub’s lead PI, Nico…

CyVerse Image Migration Crosswalks

In 2023, the SSH migrated 5+ million images for the CAP, Pteridophyte, SERNEC, and New England Vascular Plants (NEVP) TCNs from CyVerse to SSH-maintained servers. For ease of reference, crosswalks documenting this migration are now available on Zenodo:

Upcoming Symbiota Code Release

The ASU BioKIC team is slated to release their latest version of the Symbiota codebase, Symbiota 3.1, in Spring 2024. This update will include tools to facilitate batch uploading of Linked Resources and image metadata, and it will enable the…

Year in Review

2023 Highlights from the Symbiota Support Hub This year marked the second full year–and another busy one–for the Symbiota Support Hub (SSH), iDigBio’s team dedicated to the mobilization and discovery of biological collections data through Symbiota portals. The SSH is…

Invitation to Join Ecdysis

The Symbiota Support Hub and leadership of the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) invite all collections that live-manage their specimen records in SCAN to migrate their data management to Ecdysis, a Symbiota portal for live-managed arthropod collections. Since this…

Cybersecurity Statement

The Symbiota Support Hub has issued a statement on cybersecurity. Read the statement here:

Symbiota Communications

FAQ about email communications from the Symbiota Support Hub Why am I getting newsletter emails from the Hub?The Symbiota Support Hub curates contact lists based on the status of your user account in SSH-hosted Symbiota portals. For example, if your…