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Overview of Dryad Curation

Overview of Dryad Curation. July 23, 2012 Dryad Board Meeting. Curation staffing. Full time professional curator, currently staffed through UNC SILS Metadata Research Center Part time student curatorial assistants

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Overview of Dryad Curation

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  1. Overview ofDryad Curation July 23, 2012 Dryad Board Meeting

  2. Curation staffing • Full time professional curator, currently staffed through UNC SILS Metadata Research Center • Part time student curatorial assistants • Estimated 30 minutes of curatorial assistant time required per typical submission • Turn around time for processing new submissions ~1 business day

  3. Value added by curation • Customer service to authors and journals • Screening of inappropriate content • Higher quality and quantity of metadata • Future conversion of files to preferred formats • Future improvement of metadata, e.g., ORCID • Future metadata enrichment for selected items

  4. Customer service to authors and journals • Pre-submission inquiries from authors • Technical problems with submission • Curator-initiated communications • Weekly curator reports to journal • Information requests by journal • Versioning and other follow up All communications are dependent upon journal configuration preferences

  5. Typical timing of author inquiries

  6. Major curation activities

  7. Major curation activities • Review workflow • Minimal/no curator attention during journal review • Upon submission (basic workflow) or upon manuscript acceptance (review workflow) • Screening for appropriateness (submitted files, associated journal, etc.) • Metadata quality/quantity • After archiving • Adding bibliographic citation • Versioning

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