Current status

Todd Vision (overview)Elena Feinstein (curation)

Ryan Scherle (demo)

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Major accomplishments past year

• A major new NSF award • Several major new partner journals

and publishers• Adoption of governance and

sustainability plans by the Interim Board

• New repository features• A lot of exposure7/23/12 Dryad Board of Directors 2

Project fundingPast• NSF ABI, 2008-12,

$1.4M• IMLS “HIVE” - contrib• NSF NESCent – contrib• JISC “DryadUK” 2010-

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Current• NSF ABI, 2012-16.

$2.1M• NSF “DataONE” –

contrib• EC “ODIN” – contrib• NSF “NESCent” -

contrib

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Prospective• NSF Big Data/DIBBs• DFG (with ZB Med)• Sloan Fundation• Others TBD

Members

Board of directors

Executive director

Repository architect

1 or more programm

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Contractors

Part-time sysadmin

Lead curator

Multiple part-time curators

Assistant director

R&D principal investigator(s)

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New NSF ABI grant aims• Paving the way for higher deposit rates

Automating curation and preservation tasks Streamlining submission integration and

increasing the number of journals using it Improved indexing/search (e.g. by subject &

author name)

• Encouraging reuse and reusability Allowing richer data package deposits Research into reuse, curation, incentives

• Governance and sustainability• Outreach and promotion

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New integrated journals

• Ecological Monographs

• Evolutionary Applications

• Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management

• Journal of Paleontology

• Paleobiology• PLoS Biology• Pensoft publishers

(8 journals)

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http://wiki.datadryad.org/Submission_Integration:_Current_Status

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Checkpoint Charlie Berlin

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New repository features• Pre-review data deposit

BMJ, Molecular Ecology, Systematic Biology

• DOI/PubMed lookup For depositing data from published

articles

• Versioning of datafiles• Access and download statistics• DryadLab• Others features less visible…7/23/12 Dryad Board of Directors 9

A lot of exposure

Publisher meetings• SSP 2011• ALPSP 2012• APE 2012

Info Tech meetings• Knowledge Exchange

2011• Force11 (Dagstuhl)

2011• ICTSI• RDMF8 2012• RDAP 2012• Open Repositories

2012• ALA 2012

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Booth presence• Evolution• SMBE• ABS/HBES• ESA

Highly visible web presence

• Repository home: http://datadryad.org• Blog: http://blog.datadryad.org• Project documentation: http://wiki.datadryad.org• Code: http://code.google.com/p/dryad• Twitter: @datadryad (1,143 followers)

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A glance at the contents• 1,824 data packages• 4,759 data files• 143 journals• >6,800 authors• 79% deposits from integrated

journals• 25% files embargoed for 1 yr post-

pub• ~10 Mb/data package (arithmetic

mean)• File formats: 60% plain text, 14%

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Total number of journals

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Partnerships

• DuraSpace• DataCite• ORCID• CLOCKSS• DataONE

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Proposed partnership with ZB Med

• German National Library of Medicine Also publishes gms series of journals

• Proposed elements of the relationship Submission integration of journals Service mirroring Data curation capacity R&D within German & EU funding context Advocacy to European biomedical research

and publishing community

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Goals of this meeting

• Bringing the organization into official existence (officers, committees, etc)

• Deciding details of cost recovery and membership

• Strategy for future growth• Setting priorities for new features• Reviewing repository policies7/23/12 Dryad Board of Directors 20