Blog Topics

Potential topics for the Dryad blog.

Topics under consideration:

Questions from librarians (in response to Jane's NISO webinar, August 2010):
 * 1) Can there more than one DOI for data package(s) for each article? Or is it envisioned that these will be one-to-one?
 * 2) Any statistics on the use of the deposited data in Dryad?
 * 3) What do you know about how the users of Dryad are searching for data sets?
 * 4) Are you looking at using something other than DSpace down the road; why was DSpace chosen?
 * 5) Any evidence that data sets in Dryad are indeed being reused?
 * 6) Will there be relationships developed between Dryad and other information organizations - such as Web of Science?
 * 7) Is access to Dryad data limited by journal subscription? and have you been tracking if other people are using the data in dryad?
 * 8) For how long is Dryad funded?
 * 9) On the slide showing the joint publication and Dryad workflow, what happens to the data sets when the article is rejected for publication?  Do the data sets go no further?
 * 10) What percentage of the total # of authors have donated their datasets.  Is it significantly better than the average # of academic authors donating to Digital Repositories?
 * 11) You have good descriptive metadata, but you don't have browse by subject/keyword.  Why don't you allow other browse facets?
 * 12) Could you elaborate on the degree of automation for email exchanges, DOIs, etc?

Other topics:
 * 1) more about DOIs: what does it do? what you can do with it? educate users to use DOI and its value, what does DataCite mean? what do users get out of this?
 * 2) HIVE overview, demo (in conjunction with Dublin Core workshop?)
 * 3) HIVE -- converting vocabularies into SKOS
 * 4) Personnel sketches
 * 5) Data reuse success stories-- seeking examples
 * 6) creative or unusual uses of Dryad
 * 7) announcing new board and governance model, and new cost recovery plan
 * 8) new partner publishers: BMC, eLife
 * 9) new button available for authors' websites