Guides: Research Data Management: Dryad at SUNY

SUNY Repositories

Dryad Data Requirements

-Dryad accepts all research data
-Files must have a Creative Commons Zero waiver
-Data involving human subjects must adhere to IRB regulations
-Data cannot contain personally identifiable information

More information available from Dryad

Preferred File Formats

-Text: MD, CSV, TSV, XML, JSON
-Images: PDF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, SVG
-Audio: FLAC, AIFF, WAV, MP3, OGG
-Video: AVI, MPEG, MP4
-Compressed file: TAR.GZ, 7Z, ZIP

How to Create A Dryad Account at SUNY Maritime

You must create an ORCID account to login. If you do not have an ORCID account, create one at https://orcid.org/ first.

Click on login at https://datadryad.org/

Click on "My Account". Click on "Add a Dryad partner institution".

How to Submit A Dataset a Dryad

Before submission, click on Help > Submission Requirements and Submission Walkthrough to understand the necessary information and steps

Decide whether datasets should be public or private at this step. Then hit "Preview Submission"

If you selected "available for public download", you will be prompted to click on "Submit for publication" when submission is ready.

If you selected to keep files private during peer review process, you will be prompted to click on "Submit for peer review" when submission is ready. Double-blind files will be provided to you.

Dryad at SUNY FAQs

What is Dryad? Dryad datadryad.org/stash is an open data publishing platform and a community committed to the open availability and routine re-use of all research data. SUNY has joined Dryad as the second institutional consortia member and will support data publishing for researchers at many SUNY campuses.
Why Dryad? For most researchers required to publish research data in an open access or FAIR repository, a domain-specific or other repository specified by the funder is provided. For other researchers in need of a generalist repository or who have not requirements for publishing data but a desire to share their data, Dryad is available. Dryad is for data that needs to be retained permanently.
What is the advantage of using Dryad as opposed to an institutional repository? The amount of data some researchers are creating would be costly to store in an IR. SUNY has opted to join Dryad rather that host data for campuses in the SUNY Digital Repository. Dryad is also specifically for published and accessible data. Our IR and some campus IRs would need to rethink their IR collection development and infrastructure to enable data ingest. Additionally, Dryad provides curation services that are absent in a campus-hosted IR.
How do researchers publish their data? The submission process is outlined here: https://datadryad.org/submission_process.
What data licenses does Dryad accept? Data published to Dryad must be under a CC0 license. Read about the license here: https://blog.datadryad.org/2011/10/05/why-does-dryad-use-cc0/ Software can be loaded to Zenodo within Dryad. Zenodo accepts a variety of software licenses.
Are SDR and SOAR still available? Yes, SDR and SOAR are still available.