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10-Minute Presentation

Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

10-min: SysEB, Biodiversity 1 - Guarding Our Natural Heritage

Leveraging new Symbiota features to extend specimen data in existing biocollections

Sunday, November 9, 2025
10:00 AM - 10:12 AM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, B116, OCC
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Symbiota is a community-driven, open-source platform that supports the digitization, curation, and dissemination of biodiversity data. It enables collections personnel and data providers to contribute to web-based data portals that follow the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Currently, more than 60 Symbiota-based portals host over 95 million records across 1,900 biological collections. Among these, seven portals focus wholly or partially on insect data, with three actively curated within Symbiota itself. Ongoing support from various funding sources sustains the active development of the Symbiota codebase, which sees multiple major releases annually. Recent updates in versions 3.3 and 3.4 introduce several enhancements, including: functionality to locate associated observation records; Darwin Core–formatted export options for extended specimen records; new storage location fields tailored for paleontological collections; and integration with iNaturalist through an external voucher linking interface. This presentation will showcase selected tools within an insect-focused portal, touching on examples of how the extended specimen tools can and/or have affected new discoveries and research avenues.