About DryadUK
DryadUK is a JISC-funded project being run from the British Library and
Oxford University, with assistance from NESCent,
the Digital Curation Centre (DCC),
Charles Beagrie Ltd., and the Research Information Network (RIN).
DryadUK is assisting the further development of Dryad in the following ways:
Expanding Dryad
- By establishing a UK mirror site
- By expanding the service to include new publishers, journals and disciplines
Increasing Dryad sustainability
- By developing a sustainable business plan
- By establishing a framework for evaluating Dryad data usage
Adding value
- Exploring ways to improve metadata standards for deposition, citation and annotation
- Assigning DataCite DOIs to UK publisher datasets via the British Library.
Project Team
- Kevin Ashley, assessment and evaluation (DCC)
- Neil Beagrie, cost-benefit and sustainability (Charles Beagrie Ltd.)
- Dr Lee-Ann Coleman, publisher relations (British Library)
- Dr Adam Farquhar, Principal Investigator (British Library)
- Brian Hole, project manager (British Library) (email Brian)
- Peggy Schaeffer (NESCent)
- Dr Ryan Scherle (NESCent)
- Dr David Shotton, Principal Investigator (Oxford University)
- Dr Todd Vision (NESCent)
- Dr Max Wilkinson, DataCite DOI facilitation (British Library)