Changes to support multimedia in Symbiota portals The Symbiota Support Hub is excited to announce that audio files will be supported in the upcoming version of the Symbiota code, Symbiota 3.2. Support for audio files was funded by the Academy…
Tag: portal management update
Code Updates The Symbiota Support Hub worked throughout the fall semester to release Symbiota 3.1 and subsequently update all SSH-hosted portals to this newest version of the Symbiota code, which includes new features and tools, bug fixes, accessibility enhancements, and a modernized…
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…
We are excited to announce the official release of Symbiota 3.1: the newest version of the Symbiota code. This code can be found in our GitHub repository: https://github.com/BioKIC/Symbiota. What does this mean for you?Over the next several months, the Symbiota Support Hub…
The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) is planning the rollout of its latest major code release to all SSH-maintained Symbiota portals. Symbiota 3.1 includes new features, bug fixes, and optimizations to improve portal functionality and further support extended specimen data. Here…
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,…
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…
Update: As of September 2024, image hosting services previously available through BioKIC Services are now available through KU Symbiota. The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) receives frequent inquiries about adding images to records in Symbiota portals. In February, the SSH presented…
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…