Symbiota Working Group
Overview
The Symbiota Working Group meets monthly as a group to discuss timely items of interest, contact Andy Miller or Neil Cobb for additional information.
The Symbiota Working Group is composed of developers and end users, where end users include primarily managers of Symbiota portals but can be any end user who wants to help improve Symbiota as a software application or the data portal functionality as a whole. The 29 Symbiota portals encompass plants, lichens, bryophytes, algae, fungi, invertebrates, and to a lesser degree vertebrates. Symbiota portals primarily function as web portals for museums to submit and annotate specimen or observation records. Symbiota portals serve the data to iDigBio and to any other aggregators that want to harvest Darwin Core archives. Symbiota also provides data packaging (e.g., checklists) visualization (mapping and images), education material (keys, identification quizzes) and easy access to data sets as downloadable CSV files. Thus, Symbiota portals allow researchers to compile and screen data sets for further analysis or educators to integrate biodiversity data for use in the classroom. A key challenge is to know when it is good to develop a capacity in Symbiota, partner with a third party to provide added functionality (e.g., georeferencing, mapping) and when to let another entity provide the functionality (e.g., dedicated aggregator). Now is an important point in time to develop a Symbiota roadmap that will more efficiently guide us over the next few years and beyond when funding is less certain.
The listserv is self serve: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/IDigBio_Listservs#Symbiota_Working_Group
Webinar Series
2018
January-February
1/17/2018 Developing Education-Outreach (Anne Basham & Neil Cobb)
1/31/2018 The Oregon Flora Portal (Linda Hardison)
2/21/2018 Documenting the Ethnobiology of Mexico and Central America (DEMCA)
March-April
3/7/2018 Update on Genetic linkages (Andy Miller) and Paleo functionality (Neil Cobb)
3/28/2018 Improving Data Entry options -(Mary Barkworth)
4/16/2028 Data Cleaning Module (Anne Barber)
May-June
5/3/2018 Refactoring Symbiota (Curtis Dyerson)
5/21/2018 Usage Stats and publication linking (Ben Brandt)
6/6/2018 End of year open discussion
2017
October 11, 2017 Spatial Module I (Ben Brandt) Recording
October 27, 2017 Spatial Module II (Ben Brandt) Recording
November 30, 2017 Georeferencing CoGe I (Herrick Brown)Recording
December 18 2017 Computer Vision (Andre Poremski) Recording
2016
[Google Event/Meeting Calendar - Caution - in Pacific Time] https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=i2m1qk0c44fn38b32104ikdh1s@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles&pli=1
SWG Webinar Series https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/SWG_Webinar_Series
2015
April 23, 2015 Checklists (David Fleming) Recording
2014
December 15, 2014 The value of the Symbiota Portal and Database for Small Collections (Ed Gilbert) (Not Recorded)
October 21, 2014 Exsiccati (Ed Gilbert) Recorded
September 9, 2014 Crowdsource data entry (Ed Gilbert) Recording
September 3, 2014 Checklist Management (Ed Gilbert) Recording
August 27, 2014 Introduction to Specimen Management (Ed Gilbert) Recording
Working Group Meetings
Location: AdobeConnect: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room/
- December 15, 2015 - Agenda
- January 27, 2016 - Recording
- March 3, 2016 - Recording
- April 25, 2016 - Recording
- June 2, 2016 - Recording
- October 25, 2016 - Recording
- Link from Steve Buckley - NPS on generating field guides, and about NPSpecies