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UNC shares a $2.18 million grant from the National Science Foundation for digital repository
The repository, called Dryad, is designed to archive data that underlie published findings in evolutionary biology, ecology and related fields and allow scientists to access and build on each other’s findings.
The repository, called Dryad, is designed to archive data that underlie published findings in evolutionary biology, ecology and related fields and allow scientists to access and build on each other’s findings.
The grant recipients are:
* National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), a collaborative effort involving UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke and North Carolina State universities.
* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Metadata Research Center in the School of Information and Library Science;
* North Carolina State University’s Digital Library Program;
* Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Office at the University of New Mexico;
* Yale University’s TreeBASE database; and
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the Metadata Research Center have been developing Dryad in coordination with a large group of Journals and Societies in evolutionary biology and ecology. With the new grant, the additional team members are contributing to the development of the repository.
For more information, contact
Wanda Monroe, (919) 843-8337