KU Symbiota

Symbiota is designed for efficient and collaborative digitization as a collections management system, and as an open data exploration and publishing tool. To date, over 60 Symbiota portals have been used to mobilize 90 million biological specimen records from 2,000 collections worldwide.

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Services & Rates

All rates listed are in USD and subject to change. Rates for KU-based and for-profit clients may differ.

Ventral view of a preserved butterfly specimen

Media Hosting

Services: Storing and serving mainly web-ready images related to biodiversity records, including linkage to external systems, where applicable.

Rates: $3.00/GB/year (nonprofit discounts available)
Header for the Ecdysis Symbiota portal that reads, “Ecdysis: A portal for live-data arthropod collections”

New Portal Setup

Services: Portal configuration, styling, data ingestion, activation, module population. Setup may be full or partial (price scaled accordingly). Applicable to individual portals generated outside of the NSF iDigBio project context.

Rates: $5,506/portal (full setup)
Woman with a laptop displaying a map that shows colorful dots representing specimen collecting locations

Continuing Portal Maintenance

Services: Portal management, maintenance, security administration, code updates. Applicable to individual portals generated outside of the NSF iDigBio project context.

Rates: $7,424/year
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Tool Development & IT Support

Services: Software and database feature development, customization, fixes, adjustments. Custom support for development, installation, and other IT needs.

Rates: $226/hour
Screenshot of specimen label generated in a Symbiota data portal. The label contains text at left with a barcode rotated 90 degrees to the right. The example given is a label generated for a preserved mammal specimen with the catalog number NEON01IFU.

Data Processing & Improvement

Services: Data manipulation, cleaning, and other transformations.

Rates: $124/hour
Pressed and preserved cacti with pink flowers from an herbarium sheet

Digitization & Workflow Support

Services: Custom support for digitization, data management, data mobilization, and related topics.

Rates: $63/hour
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Custom Data Products

Services: Creation and formatting of custom data outputs, integration with other data sources, and data visualizations.

Rates: $83/hour

Disclaimer: Products and services offered by KU Symbiota are independent of the research award-sponsored Symbiota Support Hub.