At the request of the Symbiota Support Hub, GBIF has recently improved the connection between individual records in the GBIF portal and their corresponding Symbiota records. This pathway prompts GBIF users to comment on records directly in the Symbiota portal,…
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The Extended Specimen follows from the growing recognition that specimens are far more complex than their isolated occurrences, which has real implications for their digital representation and how this information is managed, shared, and used in collections databases and public…
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…
The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) receives frequent inquiries about adding images to records in Symbiota portals. In February, the SSH presented an updated overview on this topic during the monthly Symbiota Support Group meeting. All users who contribute images to…
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…
The Symbiota* team at Arizona State University (ASU) 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 diversifying the means through which we can…
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…
Want to enhance Symbiota? Include it in your next grant! Improvements to Symbiota are primarily supported by grant-based funding. If you’re planning a collections improvement, digitization, or research project that includes the use of one or more Symbiota portals, the…
Like many collections that use Symbiota, datasets in the NEON Biorepository Data Portal are regularly published to GBIF. This includes data for a variety of taxa, including plants, animals, microbes, plankton, and many preparation types: dry, frozen, fluid preserved, slide-mounted,…
iDigBio is now accepting abstracts andparticipant registration for the annualDigital Data in Biodiversity Research conference! Official event updates are available on iDigBio’s wiki. Meeting Registration Participant Category Registration Fee (USD) In-person, non student* $100 In-person, student* $50 Virtual only Optional**…