Introducing “CVColl”

In September and October 2024, the Symbiota Support Hub worked closely with Dakota Rowsey, the CSVColl Portal Manager, to host a Portal Advancement Campaign for the Consortium of Small Vertebrate Collections (CSVColl.org). Office hours enabled technical support and provided networking…

CSVColl Portal Campaign Announcement

Later this month, the Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) will be hosting a Portal Advancement Campaign dedicated to the Consortium of Small Vertebrate Collections (“CSVColl”) data portal community (csvcoll.org). As part of this event, we invite prospective portal users to engage with us,…

CCH2 Portal Campaign in Review

The CCH2 community showed enthusiastic support for its August 2024 Portal Advancement Campaign. Over the course of the month, Office Hours sessions were attended by 23 unique participants representing herbaria located across California and in neighboring states. Major accomplishments of the CCH2’s…

Calling California herbaria!

The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) and California-based herbaria will team up for a Portal Advancement Campaign for CCH2 on Tuesdays at 2p Pacific in August. Whether you’re an active portal participant or just thinking about joining, the SSH invites you…

Lichen & Bryophyte Joint Portal Campaign

In Spring 2024, the Symbiota Support Hub and the GLOBAL Management Committee presented a joint portal campaign for lichen and bryophyte herbaria. Collectively and individually, these communities contribute to two very large and active Symbiota portals, the Consortium of Lichen…

Ecdysis Campaign In Review

The Ecdysis portal was founded in 2019 for the management of arthropod data. Since then, the portal has grown significantly, with well over 100 collections actively contributing data in the form of specimen occurrences, media records, taxonomy, and species inventories…

Spring 2024 Portal Advancement Campaigns

Members of the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria (CLH) and the Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria (CBH) should anticipate forthcoming announcements about spring Portal Advancement Campaigns. The Symbiota Support Hub will be working with the managers of these portals to coordinate Office…

Bee Library Campaign In Review

In 2021, the University of California-Santa Barbara and collaborating institutions received NSF funding to capture and aggregate bee image, trait, and specimen data as part of a three-year “Big-Bee” Thematic Collections Network (Seltmann et al., 2021). Central to this project is The Bee…

Coming Soon: Bee Data Mobilization Campaign

Do you have a bee dataset you would like to share? Are you interested in publishing data with GBIF and the bee community? The Big-Bee TCN and the Symbiota Support Hub encourage your participation in our upcoming Portal Advancement Campaign…

SEINet Campaign Recap

In July 2023, the Symbiota Support Hub completed its ninth Portal Advancement Campaign with the Arizona-New Mexico Chapter of SEINet, the original Symbiota portal in the “SEINet” network. This campaign was the first to feature an in-person component; its kick-off…