The Dryad Team
Dryad researchers, members, publishers, partners, funders and fans will be interested to see the headlines from our recent Community Meeting, where we introduced our new Executive Director, latest services for researchers, and incoming board members.
The one-hour recording is now available, but read on for a quick summary.
At the 2021 now-Annual Dryad Community Meeting:
- We were welcomed by our Board Chair, Johan Nilsson, who is also Associate Director of the Oikos Editorial Office in Lund, Sweden.
- Johan introduced our new Executive Director, Jennifer Gibson (Jen), who described some of her favourite projects from work at eLife, SPARC, FORCE11, and OASPA.
- We shared the latest numbers from the Dryad platform: 175,000+ researchers, 32,000+ international institutions, and 1,200+ academic journals represented – plus 43,000+ data publications (a ~20% increase on the year before).
- We welcomed 13 new members and publisher partners from five countries.
- Our Product Manager Daniella Lowenberg summarised additions to the platform, including:
- Our early commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure
- Integrations with Zenodo, to help authors share software and supplementary information alongside their data
- Workflow integrations for eLife and all journals on Editorial Manager
- The integration with Frictionless Data, to help users check their tabular data files for errors before loading
- The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project data, which is now available at Dryad
- We’re grateful to Jose Benito Gonzalez from Zenodo, Lilly Winfree from Frictionless Data, and Amanda French at COVID Tracking Project for joining us to speak to each of those projects.
- Jen talked about near-term priorities and the start of plans for the New Year, thanking recent directors Tracy Teal and Trisha Cruse for their leadership of Dryad and contributions to helping put us in such a strong position for moving forward.
- Johan introduced recommended candidates to join the Governing Board: Iratxe Puebla (ASAPBio), Ian Mulvany (BMJ), and Caroline Sutton (Taylor and Francis) and Wolfram Horstmann (University of Göttingen), who would serve their second terms.
We concluded with a great, informal discussion, which we won’t share in the recording. You’ll just have to join us next time!
If you have any questions or other thoughts to share, feel free to add a comment below, or email us at hello@datadryad.org.