# Symbiota

- **Website:** <https://symbiota.org>
- **Primary alias:** `symbiota.org`

## Description

Symbiota is an open-source brand that offers a robust content management system and a tool for biodiversity data exploration. With over 20 years of experience, Symbiota has evolved into a distributed network of theme-based research portals, incorporating data from over 1,900 biodiversity collections. These collections include preserved plants, animals, fossils, fungi, and more. Currently, there are 56 Symbiota portals that publish over 46 million images and +90 million occurrences. The brand is designed to facilitate efficient, collaborative digitization and serves as an open data exploration and publishing tool. Symbiota portals are accessible for researchers, educators, explorers, and anyone interested in biodiversity data. These portals provide various tools such as species inventories, interactive identification keys, taxonomic information, species distribution maps, and taxonomic descriptions. For collectors, collection managers, and curators, Symbiota portals offer features like data entry from label images, batch georeferencing, data validation, loan management, and data publishing to platforms such as GBIF and iDigBio. To explore the vast biodiversity data stored in Symbiota-based portals, users can join a portal and access over 12 million occurrence records available on GBIF.org. For general inquiries or issues, Symbiota provides a Help Desk and a Discussions page. Additionally, the brand offers a growing archive of help files, tutorials, and more on their Symbiota Docs website. Symbiota is an innovative solution for managing and mobilizing biodiversity data, enabling collaboration, exploration, and preservation of valuable research resources.

## Industries

- 🧪 Science and Education
- 🧪 Biology _(under Science and Education)_
- 🧪 Libraries and Museums _(under Science and Education)_
- 🖥 Computers Electronics and Technology
- 🖥 Programming and Developer Software _(under Computers Electronics and Technology)_

## Links

- [youtube](https://youtube.com/channel/UC7glMVLRnTA6ES3VTsci7iQ)
- [github](https://github.com/Symbiota)

## Logos & icons

- logo _(primary)_ — PNG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idAUm1UxTs/w/1024/h/682/theme/dark/logo.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1780474279593)

## Colors

| Name | Hex | Theme |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Conifer | #c0d346 | accent |
| Black | #000000 | dark |
| Concrete | #f2f2f2 | light |

## Fonts

- serif — asset _(custom)_

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