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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 - ehull@datadryad.org o Erin Clary, Senior Curator - eclary@datadryad.org

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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