On May 28, 2014, the first ever joint Dryad & Dataverse Community Meeting took place at Harvard University. Various research data stakeholders were in attendance, which included representatives from various international institutions, funders, publishers, repositories, and individual researchers.
Both Dryad and Dataverse provided updates on the current state and future directions of their respective repositories. Both presentations gave examples of and stressed the need to collaborate with journal 
publishers to encourage the sharing and reuse of journal article's underlying research data. Slides from Elizabeth Quigley & Eleni Castro’s Dataverse presentation are available here.
Representatives from two large United States federal funding agencies gave separate presentations on what each agency is doing with regards to promoting data discovery, access and reuse. Both, Peter McCartney (NSF) and Jennie Larkin (NIH - BD2K), stressed the need for repositories to come up with sustainable models to maintain long-term access to research data.
From the Publishers perspective, Alex Garnett (Simon Fraser University) presented on the PKP-Dataverse Integration Project (see slides), which provides a technological solution and incentives for journals to seamlessly integrate data publication with repositories such as Dataverse using the SWORDv2 protocol. Jennifer Lin from PLOS discussed the role of publishers in data access, and their journals' new Data Policy. Finally, Cliff Duke, director of science programs at the Ecological Society of America, presented on the ethics of data sharing and reuse, which could include giving co- authorship credit to data providers.
4 criteria for authorship for a data provider. Cliff Duke #dryadverse pic.twitter.com/2pX5e9YGkw
— liz ferguson (@lfliz) May 28, 2014
For a limited time, the recorded livestream of the Dryad Dataverse Meeting can be viewed here: http://t.co/6iFCODk2T0
by Eleni Castro
