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

用于保存和共享进化生物学已发表作品的数据的数字存储库

• 批准号: 0743720
• 负责人: Todd Vision
• 金额: $ 218.02万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0743720&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digital; Repository; Preservation; Sharing; Data

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/

PI：Kathleen Smith（杜克大学获奖者）高级人员：Kristin Antelman（北卡罗来纳州立大学；子获奖者）、William Michener、Mark Servilla（新墨西哥大学；子获奖者）、Jane Greenberg、Todd Vision（北考利纳大学教堂山分校） ；亚获奖者），William Piel（耶鲁大学；亚获奖者）。科学进步取决于科学家相互借鉴工作的能力。尽管人们普遍认可存档某些类型数据的存储库（例如 GenBank、PDB）的价值，但与进化生物学和相关学科已发表论文相关的大多数数据未能存档在公共存储库中。 更广泛的数据归档的障碍有些是社会学的，有些是技术性的。 NESCent 将与进化生物学及相关学科的期刊和学会联盟合作，开发一个名为 Dryad 的通用数字图书馆，用于保存、发现、共享和重用出版物基础数据。 该项目旨在消除目前阻碍期刊和学会采取对出版物数据进行强制存档的政策的关键技术障碍。 Dryad 的一些最重要的技术目标包括：（1）简化稿件提交过程中的数据沉积过程； (2) 与GenBank和TreeBase等期刊所需档案以及MetaCat等元数据注册中心交换元数据； (3)为每个数据对象分配全局唯一、稳定、可解析的标识符，从而实现数据引用。 旨在提高 Dryad 可靠性和实用性的其他目标包括：(4) 对分类、地理和其他专业元数据进行编目以方便数据搜索，(5) 实施 Web 服务以允许第三方数据搜索和检索，(6 ）在多个机构之间进行分布式数据备份。 该项目还寻求支持联盟成员努力克服广泛数据归档的社会学障碍。 Dryad 将受到来自该财团的利益相关者委员会的监督，该委员会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的变革性影响，使整个生物学科的数据得以保存、发现、共享和重用，并将成为许多其他“小科学”的模型。学科在数据保存和共享方面面临着类似的挑战。 通过各种参与活动，数据归档将在研究社区内得到推广，而 Dryad 将成为数据交换标准持续发展的催化剂。 Dryad 将是一个可公开访问的、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