The Consortium of Midwest Herbaria showed enthusiastic support for the April 2023 Portal Advancement Campaign. Over the course of the month, Office Hours sessions were attended by 23 unique participants representing 17 herbaria from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and…
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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…
If you maintain an herbarium collection in the Mid-Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC) or Midwest (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI) regions of the U.S., the Symbiota Support Hub invites your participation in upcoming campaigns for the Mid-Atlantic…
The Symbiota Support Hub hosted six Portal Advancement Campaigns in 2022, and these month-long events will continue in 2023. Portal campaigns are designed to help portal communities build on or reinvigorate digitization momentum. Campaign activities typically focus on improving portal…
In 2019, the well-established Texas and Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH) received NSF funding for a subset of its members to digitize the vascular flora of the south-central United States (NSF Award #s 1901993, 1902064, 1902078, 1902080, 1902085). Part…
In September and October, the Symbiota Support Hub completed two more Portal Advancement Campaigns, this time in conjunction with the leadership of the Mycology Collections Data Portal and the Pteridophyte Collections Consortium. Here’s an overview of what these communities accomplished…
In August, the Symbiota Support Hub completed its third Portal Advancement Campaign, this time focusing on the Macroalgae Portal. This month-long event was held in collaboration with the Macroalgae Herbarium Consortium led by the University of New Hampshire. Momentum to…
With over 400 users, many members of the Phycological Society are likely familiar with the Macroalgae Portal (macroalgae.org), which has served as the central repository for the Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium since 2013. As one of the original Thematic Collections Networks…
Do you manage an algae collection? The Macroalgae Portal was recently migrated to Arizona State University servers where it has been updated and is now fully supported by the Symbiota Support Hub, and we’re planning our next portal advancement campaign…
In May, the Symbiota Support Hub completed its second Portal Advancement Campaign, this time focusing on the Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria (SoRo). Members of the SoRo community have been digitizing and aggregating herbarium data from the middle and southern Rocky Mountain…