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A day in the life of a Dryad curator
Elizabeth Hull Operations Manager Dryad Digital Repository
CurateGear January 7, 2015
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Dryad mission & vision
o The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes.
o Dryad’s vision is to promote a world where research data is openly available, integrated with the scholarly literature, and routinely re-used to create knowledge.
o Our mission is to provide the infrastructure for, and promote the re-use of, data underlying the scholarly literature.
Data archiving landscape
Datatype Focus
Com
mun
ity
Focu
s
General
General
Focused
Focused
Figshare
Institutional Repository
Supplemental Materials
Genbank
Pangaea Zenodo
Lab Database
Dryad
What differentiates Dryad
o Discipline- and format-agnostic o Integrated with publication process o Funding model o Curated
Dryad curators are:
o Distributed o Flexible/scalable o Tiered: students and professionals o Super
New submissions
New submissions
Help tickets (FogBugz)
Updating existing submissions
Demo/discussion
o Dryad curation interface & documentation
o Remote collaboration/communication tools
o Helpdesk (FogBugz)
o Project management (ensuring continual improvement of curation)
Learn more
o Repository home: http://datadryad.org o Documentation: http://wiki.datadryad.org o News: http://blog.datadryad.org o Twitter: @datadryad
o Elizabeth Hull, Operations Manager - [email protected] o Erin Clary, Senior Curator - [email protected]
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Submitter’s workspace
Create new version
Secondary curation
Primary curation
Review stage
Publication blackout
Data in archive
Metadata import
Curation in Dryad
Key curation features
o Obvious buttons for most common activities
o More powerful tools for correcting problems oWorkflow overview o Change workflow state o Batch curation tasks
o Constant analysis and improvement