About Dryad
Dryad is an international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences, governed by a consortium of journals.
Dryad welcomes the involvement of journals, editors, publishers, authors and others who support data archiving. Authors may submit data files associated with their publications. Editors and journals can facilitate their authors’ data archiving by setting up automatic notifications to Dryad of accepted manuscripts, streamlining the authors’ process for depositing data. To learn more about manuscript submission integration with Dryad, see the complete documentation and illustrations on the Dryad documentation site, or send us an email.
Dryad is being developed by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in coordination with a large group of Journals and Societies. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center is a joint effort of Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University.
An overview of Dryad's goals and philosophy is available on the Dryad Fact Sheet.
For more detailed information, including upcoming features, details of the internal metadata format, and publications, see the Dryad Documentation Site.
There are lots of ways to stay informed about Dryad.
- You are encouraged to subscribe to the Dryad users mailing list. This is a low traffic list, and your contact information will not be shared with any other organizations.
- You may also follow updates about Dryad, and other news from the world of open data, on the Dryad Blog.
- Dryad posts two different Twitter feeds, one for general news about Dryad and open data (@datadryad), and one for notices of new data (@datadryadnew).
- The Dryad code repository has instructions for more specific lists to join to learn about, and contribute to, Dryad’s software development.
- To really proclaim your love for Dryad, become a Facebook friend.
Funding
Dryad has received grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (USA), the Joint Information Systems Committee (UK) and the National Science Foundation (USA).
DryadUK
DryadUK was a JISC-funded project from 2010-2011, with leadership from the British Library and Oxford University, in partnership with NESCent, the Digital Curation Centre, and Charles Beagrie Ltd. The project resulted in a UK mirror of the Dryad repository, improved the tools available for the publication and citation of data, expanded the disciplinary range of participating journals, and further developed the business framework for an international organization dedicated to long-term data preservation.
Senior Personnel
- Todd Vision, project director (NESCent/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Jane Greenberg, metadata management (<MRC>/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Peggy Schaeffer, communications coordinator (UNC, email Peggy)
- Ryan Scherle, repository architect (NESCent)
- Hilmar Lapp, technical management (NESCent)
- Elena Feinstein, senior dryad curator
With thanks to
- @mire consulting
- Kevin S. Clarke
- Lee-Ann Coleman
- Adam Farquhar
- Brian Hole
- Peter Midford
- Heather Piwowar
- José R. Pérez-Agüera
- David M Shotton
- Hollie White
- Craig Willis
Technology
Dryad is an open-source project.
Dryad is built upon the DSpace repository software developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard, with a number of customizations. All customizations not available within the main DSpace distribution are available from the Dryad code repository under a new BSD license.
Information on programmatic access to Dryad's data is available on the Dryad wiki.