What matters to you when looking for research data in a repository? UK based Digital Curation Centre is looking for Dryad users to complete a 10 minute questionnaire on this. Results will contribute to an assessment framework for Dryad, and the questionnaire includes entry to a competition for $80/ £50 Amazon tokens. DCC are carrying this [...]
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Looking for Research Data? What Matters to You?
Posted in Uncategorized on 2011/07/24 | 1 Comment »
Why aren’t cancer microarray datasets archived more often?
Posted in Uncategorized on 2011/07/13 | Leave a Comment »
A new study in PLoS ONE by Heather Piwowar, a postdoctoral associate affiliated with DataONE, Dryad, and NESCent, reveals interesting trends in the archiving of data underlying published microarray results. From the press release: By querying the full text of the scientific literature through websites like Google Scholar and PubMed Central, Piwowar identified eleven thousand [...]
Request for input: archiving and licensing software
Posted in Dryad features, Uncategorized on 2011/06/19 | 9 Comments »
Behind a scientific finding, in addition to unique data, there is often unique software. If Dryad archives data in part to allow others to validate the findings reported in the literature, then should we not also enable researchers to archive the software that was used to process, analyze and, in the case of simulations — [...]
Journals implement data archiving policy
Posted in Data sharing, Uncategorized, tagged data archiving on 2011/01/14 | 5 Comments »
It’s January 2011– do you know where your data are? It would be a good idea to know and be ready to deposit your files in a data repository, because this month marks the implementation of the Joint Data Archiving Policy. The policy, endorsed by a consortium of prominent journals and societies, states that journals [...]
What happens after you submit your data to Dryad?
Posted in Dryad features, Uncategorized, tagged data curation on 2010/12/02 | 1 Comment »
Ever wonder what happens to your Dryad data behind the scenes? Here’s a quick overview. Once a depositor has uploaded their data files and finalized their submission, the Dryad curator is notified of the new content. The curator looks at the uploaded files to make sure they really do contain data (and not, say, the [...]
Meet our data curator
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged data curation on 2010/10/06 | Leave a Comment »
Data files in Dryad don’t just get dumped in there. Someone is there to look after the accuracy and completeness of the metadata, to migrate data files into new formats when necessary, to help users with new submissions, and generally mind the details so that others can find and reuse the data files down the [...]
Science Online in London
Posted in Meetings, Uncategorized on 2010/08/31 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re in London this week, don’t miss Science Online London on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 3-4. Hosted by the British Library, Mendeley, and Nature, this meeting is an opportunity not just to listen but to connect, engage, and interact. Stop by the British Library booth to find out more about Dryad’s expansion under [...]
Dryad goes international
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dryad-UK, sustainability on 2010/08/06 | 1 Comment »
JISC makes an award to Dryad in the UK.
The US Congress and selective data blindness
Posted in Uncategorized on 2010/07/30 | Leave a Comment »
FRPA perpetuates the misunderstanding, which seems common to much of the policy debate over open access publishing, that scientific research output is limited to whatever fits in the pages of a journal.
Data archiving and tropical biology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged JDAP on 2010/07/17 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent published editorial in Biotropica, Emilio Bruna makes the case for data archiving in tropical biology. In his words, “… tropical ecosystems are undergoing myriad, rapid, and unprecedented environmental changes. The data collected by Biotropica’s authors could provide an invaluable resource to the scientists and decision-makers studying global change phenomena and designing conservation [...]
Dryad tweets
- Wired Science: Is the Open Science Revolution For Real? http://t.co/GFJYsb5a 1 day ago
- Connecting the evidence: Making threaded publications a reality using CrossMark http://t.co/aFvtDfbK via @iainh_z 2 days ago
- RT @cboettig: Hey @creativecommons I need your support to make CC0 an OSI recognized Open Source license http://t.co/5nP93Fl9 2 days ago
- Angus Whyte of the DCC asks 'How can we evaluate data repositories? Pointers from DryadUK' http://t.co/W3LA5YCN 3 days ago
- JISC announces 01/12 Digital Infrastructure Programme http://t.co/ssT8bczD 3 days ago
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