This original code fork is considered deprecated and no longer maintained by the community. We recommend that you use one of the several actively developed forks. See link below for a full list of publicly available repositories that have since been forked from the original code base.
https://github.com/Symbiota/Symbiota-deprecated/network/members
The Symbiota Software Project is building a library of webtools to aid biologists in establishing specimen-based virtual floras and faunas. This project developed from the realization that complex, information-rich biodiversity portals are best built through collaborative efforts between software developers, biologists, wildlife managers, and citizen scientists. The central premise of this open source software project is that, through a partnership between software engineers and the scientific community, higher quality and more publicly useful biodiversity portals can be built. An open source software framework allows technicians to create the tools thus freeing the biologist to concentrate their efforts on the curation of quality datasets. In this manner, we can create something far greater than a single entity can achieve alone.
More information about this project can be accessed through
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ================
Symbiota has been generously funded by the National Science Foundation (DBI-0743827) from 15 July 2008 to 30 June 2011 (Estimated). The Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) at Arizona State University has also been a major supporter of the Symbiota initiative since the very beginning. Arizona State University Vascular Plant and Lichen Herbarium have been intricately involved in the development from the start. Sky Island Alliance and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum have both been long-term participants in the development of this product.