DataCite is focused on improving the scholarly infrastructure around datasets. There will be a set of activities around establishing and sharing best-practices, identifying and solving some of the unique issues that arise with datasets.
The Alliance for Permanent Access aim is to foster the development of an ecosystem of trusted digital repositories to enable Europe to fully exploit the potential of European scientific collaboration. The accessibility (permanent), quality assurance and preservation of key data collections are and will be one of the major driving forces for the advancement of science but also for applications thereof.
Islandora is an open source project underway at the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island. Islandora combines the Drupal and Fedora software applications to create a robust digital asset management system that can be used for any requirement where collaboration and digital data stewardship, for the short and long term, are critical.
Dryad is being developed by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in coordination with a large group of Journals and Societies in evolutionary biology and ecology. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center is a joint effort of Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University.
Stuart Macdonald and Luis Martinez-Uribe have humorously described themselves as ‘accidental’ data librarians, but they have a serious message for the research community. They talked to Elspeth Hyams about data sharing and the increasingly important role of librarians in harvesting, curating and facilitating access to datasets.