Dryad community update: June 2024 Highlights

Welcome to your source of updates, resources, and guidance on data policies and compliance, Dryad product developments and events, and more.

New at Dryad: What is AI-ready data?

What if answers to the world’s most pressing questions and challenges lie in data we already have? What could researchers achieve if they could mine vast troves of existing data for new purposes and at an unprecedented scale? Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies offer exciting possibilities that require AI-ready data to succeed.

Learn how Dryad makes data AI-ready

In the community: Dryad featured in Invest in Open Infrastructure’s State of OI report

The story of the successful conclusion of the Dryad-CDL partnership was featured in the “graceful transitions” section of a high-profile publication from Invest in Open Infrastructure.

Read the profile

Year in review: Dryad’s annual report now available

Catch up on our accomplishments in our official annual report from fiscal year 2024. You’ll find data highlights, a review of how much data we published and where it came from, and reflections from our Executive Director and Board Chair on a year of change.

Read our annual report

New at Dryad: Empowering reuse of cognitive neuroscience data 

Dryad is making it easier to find and reuse data by collecting and sharing discipline-specific metadata. We’ve rolled out an optional metadata template for researchers in cognitive neuroscience to provide enhanced information about their methods, variables, experimental design, and more, when they submit data.

Read more about our disciplinary metadata pilot

In the community: A report from the future of data management

Go back to the future with this recording from the STM Association annual meeting, where Jen Gibson shares her vision of what’s to come in data management.

Watch the recording

Partnerships: Dryad and the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)

Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enhance data sharing options for biomedical researchers, GREI is kicking off its third year by reflecting on its achievements so far, including beginning implementation of consistent metadata standards across repositories, publishing a catalog of use cases for data sharing and discovery, and establishing standardized metrics for tracking data usage and citations.

Learn more about GREI