Dryad2dataverse : Introduction

Conference held on October 3rd, 2022. Creating an open bridge between data repositories--Dryad2dataverse software. In the research world, data sharing is more important than ever. UBC’s primary research data repository is located at Borealis Dataverse. While it contains a large portion of UBC’s research data output, it doesn’t capture it all. The Dryad data repository is also popular with both researchers and publishers, especially in the life sciences. UBC has recently entered into an institutional partnership that allows researchers to deposit data into the Dryad data repository at no charge. However, Borealis Dataverse and Dryad aren’t connected. So, a search in UBC’s primary data repository would miss a large portion of UBC-authored data. UBC Library’s Research Commons’ new software pipeline, dryad2dataverse solves this problem, making UBC’s data collection more consolidated, findable, and user-friendly. At its simplest, dryad2dataverse is a standalone program that automatically copies data (and keeps it up-to-date) from Dryad into Dataverse. This means that much of UBC’s research holdings are now available in one place. Therefore, anything deposited into Dryad benefits from Borealis' large number of connections, such as being findable in UBC Library’s Summon Catalogue, UBC’s Open Collections, and Canada’s Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) national-research data-search tools. This includes geospatial searches using Geodisy, the geospatial data-search tool, connected to Borealis, also developed at the UBC Research Commons. Most importantly, this requires no effort from researchers who have deposited information into Dryad, making the institutional partnership more valuable. In this short presentation, we would expand and explain this open-source software development.Library, UBCUnreviewedFacult