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 exposure
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Project funding
Past
• NSF ABI, 2008-12, $1.4M
• IMLS “HIVE” - contrib
• NSF NESCent – contrib
• JISC “DryadUK” 2010-11
Current
• NSF ABI, 2012-16. $2.1M
• NSF “DataONE” – contrib
• EC “ODIN” – contrib
• NSF “NESCent” - contrib
Prospective
• NSF Big Data/DIBBs
• DFG (with ZB Med)
• Sloan Fundation
• Others TBD
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Members
Board of
directors
Executive
director
R&D principal
investigator(s)
Assistant
director
Part-time
sysadmin
Repository
architect
1 or more
programmers
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Contractors
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Lead curator
Multiple parttime curators
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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)
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
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Versioning of datafiles
Access and download statistics
DryadLab
Others features less visible…
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A lot of exposure
Publisher meetings
• SSP 2011
• ALPSP 2012
• APE 2012
Booth presence
• Evolution
• SMBE
• ABS/HBES
• ESA
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Info Tech meetings
• Knowledge Exchange
2011
• Force11 (Dagstuhl) 2011
• ICTSI
• RDMF8 2012
• RDAP 2012
• Open Repositories 2012
• ALA 2012
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Highly visible web presence
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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
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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% MS
Office
Growth in deposits and integrated journals
400
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deposit rate
Deposits per quarter
300
15
200
10
100
5
0
0
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
Q2
2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012
Cumulative integrated journals
integrated journals
Six journals being integrated in Q3-Q4 2012 publish ~1200 articles/yr
With ~1/3 deposit uptake rate, expect +400 deposits/yr
Total number of journals
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Downloads per month
10000
7500
5000
2500
0
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Partnerships
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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
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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 policies
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