KU Symbiota

Symbiota is specifically designed for efficient and collaborative digitization as a collections management system, and as an open data exploration and publishing tool. To date, over 50 Symbiota portals have been used to mobilize 90 million biological specimen records from 1,800 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

Hosting: Data Portals & Images

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

Rates: $2.00/GB/year (nonprofit discounts available)
Header for the Ecdysis Symbiota portal that reads, “Ecdysis: A portal for live-data arthropod collections”

Data Portal Setup

Services: Portal configuration, styling, data ingestion, activation, module population. Setup may be full or partial (price scaled accordingly).

Rates: $3,583/portal (full setup)
Woman with a laptop displaying a map that shows colorful dots representing specimen collecting locations

Data Portal Maintenance

Services: Portal management, maintenance, security administration, code updates

Rates: $3,436/year
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Data Portal Tool Development & IT Consulting

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

Rates: $220/hour
Pressed and preserved cacti with pink flowers from an herbarium sheet

Digitization & Workflow Consulting

Services: Consult and advise on digitization, data management, data mobilization, and related topics

Rates: $52/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.

Custom Data Products

Services: Create and format custom data outputs, integration with other data sources, data visualizations

Rates: $72/hour
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Data Processing & Improvement

Services: Data manipulation, cleaning, and other transformations

Rates: $55/hour

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