Availability of SCAN via scan-bugs.org?

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When I’m doing ID research, one of the several sites I used to use on a regular basis was the SCAN portal, Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network, at scan-bugs.org. Recently that site does not load and an alternate (updated?) portal, scan-all-bugs.org is supposed to be an entry point. However, the latter site only brings up the SCAN Support Site with various overviews and explanations of capabilities, access, How-To’s, etc. There seems to be no actual records search portal on the latter site.

For anyone familiar with the SCAN portal, are you having a similar issue with access and searches?

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Unfortunately, SCAN ran out of funding and is
permanently retired.
If your data on SCAN was connected to GBIF, it should all be accessible on
GBIF.

For anyone needing live collection management now that SCAN is gone, it’s
recommended to use Ecdysis as Andrew brought up. It has very similar
functions to SCAN (both symbiota platforms) and should be an easy
transition.

For anyone who hadn’t backed up their data recently, there was a final all
collections data backup before SCAN went offline. However, data from this
backup has been difficult to extract in a useful format without the portal
interface. A couple people are working on trying to resolve this extraction
issue, but I’m not sure how long it will take.

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