Guest post contributed by Bryan Gee, Data Curator at Dryad. Why is CC0 a great choice for open data? Learn to love this frequently misunderstood license waiver. Authors who submit data to Dryad are asked to consent to the publication … Continue r…
Category: Data reuse
You’re invited: Celebrating International Love Data Week
Join the Dryad team for two events celebrating ICPSR’S International Love Data Week. This year’s theme of “data as an agent of change” inspires us to think about how we can best “use data to bring about changes that matter.” … Continue reading &#…
Making Dryad More Data Science Friendly
Daniella Lowenberg & Karthik Ram As we enter year three of the pandemic, it has become clear that many aspects of our lives have permanently changed. Travel and fieldwork, especially in remote locations, were never easy to begin with. Now, … Continue reading
COVID Tracking Project Data Now Available in Dryad
Following on the news of The COVID Tracking Project at the Atlantic (CTP)’s collaboration with UCSF and California Digital Library, Dryad is proud to announce our partnership with CTP to provide an accessible, citable, and long-term home for the data … Continue reading
NSF Workshop Overview: Focusing on Researcher Perspectives
Since its founding, Dryad has hosted a researcher-led, open data publishing community and service. With the California Digital Library partnership in 2018, and reflecting on a decade of Dryad’s existence, we have spent time exploring what it means to remain … Continue reading →
Funded Partnership Brings Dryad and Zenodo Closer
By Daniella Lowenberg (Cross posted at Zenodo) With increasing mandates and initiatives around open data and software, researchers commonly have to make a choice about where to deposit their non-article outputs. Unfortunately, systems that are built to accommodate these objects … Continue reading →
Most popular data from 2018
As we begin a new year and celebrate the major milestone of more than 25,000 data packages published, it’s a great time to highlight the value for re-use of the scholarly resources that are openly available and licensed in Dryad. … Continue reading →
Five-ish Minutes With: Charles Fox
In our latest post, our Executive Director Melissanne Scheld sits down with Dryad’s Board of Directors Chair, Professor Charles Fox, to discuss challenges researchers face today, how Dryad is helping alleviate some of those pain points, why Dryad has had … Continue reading →
Mind the skills gap: creating a data access and reuse competency framework for government departments and organisations
Having access to the vital data collected by government departments can make a huge difference to the work of researchers in universities and charities. But for these researchers to actually access and be able to reuse this data is an often painstaking process that can take months or even longer. Richard Welpton suggests this process might be made quicker and […]
Dryad partnering with CDL to accelerate data publishing
Dryad is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with California Digital Library (CDL) to address researcher needs by leading an open, community-supported initiative in research data curation and publishing. Continue reading →