A Digital Repository for Preservation and Sharing of Data Underlying Published Works in Evolutionary Biology

高级人事：Kathen Smith(杜克大学奖获得者)，Kristin Antelman(北卡罗来纳州立大学，下等奖获得者)，William Michener，Mark Servila(新墨西哥大学，下等奖获得者)，Jane Greenberg，Todd Vision(北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校，下等奖获得者)，William Piel(耶鲁大学，下等奖获得者)。科学进步取决于科学家在彼此工作基础上的能力。尽管人们普遍认识到将某些类型的数据存档的存储库(如GenBank、PDB)的价值，但与进化生物学和相关学科的已发表论文相关的大多数数据都无法在公共存储库中存档。在更广泛的数据归档方面，一些障碍是社会学的，另一些是技术方面的。与进化生物学和相关学科的期刊和学会联盟合作，NESCent将开发一个名为Dryad的通用数字图书馆，用于保存、发现、共享和重复使用出版物背后的数据。该项目力求消除目前阻碍期刊和学会采取强制性存档出版物基础数据政策的关键技术障碍。Dryad的一些最重要的技术目标包括：(1)简化手稿提交过程中的数据沉积过程；(2)与GenBank和TreeBASE等需要日记的档案以及MetaCat等元数据注册机构交换元数据；(3)为每个数据对象分配全球唯一、稳定、可解析的标识符，从而支持数据引用。旨在提高Dryad可靠性和实用性的其他目标包括：(4)分类、地理和其他专门元数据的编目，以促进数据搜索；(5)实施网络服务，以允许第三方数据搜索和检索；(6)在几个机构之间进行分布式数据备份。该项目还寻求支持联合会成员努力克服广泛数据归档的社会学障碍。Dryad将由来自该财团的利益相关者组成的董事会监督，他们将制定长期财务自给自足的政策和计划。这项工作将产生广泛和变革性的影响，使整个生物学科的数据能够保存、发现、共享和重新使用，并将成为许多其他小科学？在数据保存和共享方面面临类似挑战的学科。通过各种参与活动，将在研究界内促进数据存档，而Dryad将成为继续发展数据交换标准的催化剂。Dryad将是一个公众可访问的、基于网络的数据库，促进科学活动成果的广泛传播。未来的科学家将通过开发具有特殊教育价值的数据集的课堂资源来了解存档数据的价值。Dryad开发门户网站将在http://www.nescent.org/wg_digitaldata/上提供

PI: Kathleen Smith (Duke University awardee)Senior Personnel: Kristin Antelman (North Carolina State University; subawardee), William Michener, Mark Servilla (University of New Mexico; subawardee), Jane Greenberg, Todd Vision (University of North Caolina at Chapel Hill; subawardee), William Piel (Yale University; subawardee).Scientific progress depends on the ability of scientists to build upon each other's work. Despite widespread appreciation for the value of repositories that archive certain kinds of data (e.g. GenBank, PDB), most data associated with published papers in evolutionary biology and related disciplines fail to be archived in a public repository. Some of the obstacles to more widespread data archiving are sociological and some are technical. In collaboration with a consortium of journals and societies in evolutionary biology and related disciplines, NESCent will develop a general-purpose digital library, called Dryad, for the preservation, discovery, sharing, and reuse of data underlying publications. This project seeks to remove the key technical obstacles that currently prevent journals and societies from adopting a policy of mandatory archiving of data underlying publications. Some of the most important technical goals for Dryad include: (1) simplifying the process of data deposition during manuscript submission; (2) exchanging metadata with journal-required archives such as GenBank and TreeBase, and with metadata registries such as MetaCat; (3) assignment of globally unique, stable, resolvable identifiers for each data object, thus enabling data citations. Additional goals intended to increase the reliability and utility of Dryad include: (4) cataloguing of taxonomic, geographic, and other specialized metadata to facilitate data search, (5) implementation of web services to allow third-party data search and retrieval, (6) distributed data backup among several institutions. This project also seeks to support consortium members in their efforts to overcome the sociological obstacles to widespread data archiving. Dryad will be overseen by a board of stakeholders drawn from the consortium, who will set policy and plan for long-term financial self-sufficiency. This work will have a broad and transformative impact by enabling the preservation, discovery, sharing and reuse of data for an entire biological discipline an will serve as a model for the many other ?small science? disciplines facing similar challenges in data preservation and sharing. Through a variety of engagement activities, data archiving will be promoted within the research community and Dryad will serve as a catalyst for the continued development of data exchange standards. Dryad will be a publicly accessible, web based, database, promoting wide distribution of the result of scientific activities. Future scientists will be taught about the value of archived data through development of classroom resources for datasets of special educational value. Dryad development portal will be available at http://www.nescent.org/wg_digitaldata/