Monthly Archives: November 2021

Welcome to our newest Board members

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Jen Gibson, Executive Director 

Dryad is pleased to announce the members of our Board of Directors for the 2021-2022 term. The added expertise of our newest members, together with the ongoing commitment and insights of the other accomplished individuals already serving, gives me great confidence that we have the support and guidance needed to navigate a lively and changing landscape in research data over the coming year. 

The Dryad Board of Directors is composed of 13 individuals who represent different stakeholders and voices in open research data publishing. They are recruited for their particular skills or perspectives, according to the needs of the organisation each year, and ratified by a vote of the Dryad membership. Each member serves three years, and assumes responsibility for overseeing the healthy performance of Dryad as a non-profit organisation and the realisation of our mission: to enable and promote the re-use of research data. The California Digital Library, a major partner to Dryad, is represented on the board, as an ex-officio member. We are incredibly grateful to our board members, past and present, for their commitment of time and expertise. 

This year, we would especially like to thank outgoing members Paolo Mangiafico (Duke University, USA) and Paul Uhlir (Information Policy Consultant, USA) for their work on the board. Paolo and Paul’s counsel will be remembered, and will be a support to Dryad for months to come.

We would also like to thank Wolfram Horstmann (Göttingen University, Germany) and Caroline Sutton (Taylor and Francis, Norway) for stepping forward for their second terms. They are both well-poised to help Dryad to navigate the challenges and opportunities before us.

Finally, we offer a warm welcome to our newest members Ian Mulvany (British Medical Journal, UK) and Iratxe Puebla (ASAPbio, UK) whose experience with open research broadly, technology, strategy, publishing, publishing ethics, preprints and more will help us ride the tides of change in open research data communication and publishing.

The full Dryad Governing Board now includes:

  • Scott Edmunds, GigaScience (CHN)
  • Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union (USA) 
  • Wolfram Horstmann, Göttingen State and University Library (GER)
  • Catriona Maccallum, Hindawi (UK)
  • Ian Mulvany, British Medical Journal (UK)
  • Fiona Murphy, MoreBrains Cooperative (UK)
  • Johan Nilsson, Oikos Editorial Office (SWE)
  • Naomi Penfold, Science Practice (UK)
  • Iratxe Puebla, ASAPbio (UK)
  • Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries (USA)
  • Caroline Sutton, Taylor & Francis (NOR)
  • Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (USA)
  • Günter Waibel, California Digital Library (USA)(Ex-officio)

More information is available at https://datadryad.org/stash/our_governance. 

Feedback and questions are always welcome, to hello@datadryad.org. 

What’s on at Dryad: News from our Autumn Community Meeting

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The Dryad Team

Dryad researchers, members, publishers, partners, funders and fans will be interested to see the headlines from our recent Community Meeting, where we introduced our new Executive Director, latest services for researchers, and incoming board members. 

The one-hour recording is now available, but read on for a quick summary.   

At the 2021 now-Annual Dryad Community Meeting:

  • We were welcomed by our Board Chair, Johan Nilsson, who is also Associate Director of the Oikos Editorial Office in Lund, Sweden.
  • Johan introduced our new Executive Director, Jennifer Gibson (Jen), who described some of her favourite projects from work at eLife, SPARC, FORCE11, and OASPA. 
  • We shared the latest numbers from the Dryad platform: ​​175,000+ researchers, 32,000+  international institutions, and 1,200+ academic journals represented – plus 43,000+ data publications (a ~20% increase on the year before).
  • We welcomed 13 new members and publisher partners from five countries.
  • Our Product Manager Daniella Lowenberg summarised additions to the platform, including: 
    • Our early commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure 
    • Integrations with Zenodo, to help authors share software and supplementary information alongside their data 
    • Workflow integrations for eLife and all journals on Editorial Manager
    • The integration with Frictionless Data, to help users check their tabular data files for errors before loading 
    • The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project data, which is now available at Dryad 
  • We’re grateful to Jose Benito Gonzalez from Zenodo, Lilly Winfree from Frictionless Data, and Amanda French at COVID Tracking Project for joining us to speak to each of those projects.
  • Jen talked about near-term priorities and the start of plans for the New Year, thanking recent directors Tracy Teal and Trisha Cruse for their leadership of Dryad and contributions to helping put us in such a strong position for moving forward.
  • Johan introduced recommended candidates to join the Governing Board: Iratxe Puebla (ASAPBio), Ian Mulvany (BMJ), and Caroline Sutton (Taylor and Francis) and Wolfram Horstmann (University of Göttingen), who would serve their second terms. 

We concluded with a great, informal discussion, which we won’t share in the recording. You’ll just have to join us next time!

If you have any questions or other thoughts to share, feel free to add a comment below, or email us at hello@datadryad.org.