The Symbiota Support Hub has issued a statement on cybersecurity. Read the statement here:
Tag: portal management update
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…
Symbiota Discussions is a forum for documenting community input that can affect how Symbiota portals are improved over time. If you have an idea for your portal–or if you just want to report a bug–the Hub strongly encourages you to…
GBIF maintains a robust system to track data usage when your specimen records are downloaded from their portal and cited properly in publications, and this information can now be displayed in your Symbiota portal. A full explanation of how these…
Most Symbiota portals contain a Data Usage Policy to instruct data users on how they should cite data in your portal. This policy can be customized to include guidance specific to your portal community, and it can be added as…
Please keep all contact information and user permissions associated with your collection(s) in Symbiota portals up-to-date. Doing so will help ensure that the appropriate individuals are receiving communications–like portal management updates, rare species reader requests, and other announcements–from the Support…
You may recall that in July the Hub rolled out a new user permission category–”Create a Checklist”–to help prevent spamming of portal checklists and datasets. Previously, anyone could create a checklist or dataset; unfortunately, this means that spammers used checklists…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in iDigBio’s BioDigiCon, September 27-29, 2022. In case you missed it: iDigBio’s annual Summit has been rebranded as the Biodiversity Digitization Conference, a virtual meeting intended to be more hands-on and inclusive to encourage workforce…
(formerly “Other Catalog Number”) In response to requests to associate many numbers (“additional identifiers”) with a given occurrence record, we have released a new field pairing that extends the utility of the old field, Other Catalog Number. Not only can…
If you’ve gone looking for a checklist and found an ad, you’ve run into portal spam. Previously, anyone could create a checklist or dataset; unfortunately, this means that spammers used checklists to post irrelevant advertisements on some portals. The Hub…