Published August 27, 2026 | Version 1.0

Data Documentation for: Sustaining Dryad: Reconfiguring relationships and "thinking like a business" to maintain open data infrastructures

  • 1. ROR icon Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 2. ROR icon Leiden University

Description

Open data infrastructures underpin how open research is practiced across communities. While critical, the longevity of such infrastructures is far from certain, as they grapple with challenges related to technologies, dominant ideologies, and continued funding streams.
This dataset comprises materials of a mixed-methods study investigating the financial evolution of Dryad, an established open data infrastructure developed to facilitate data sharing and reuse.
The study combines semi-structured interviews with Dryad staff and board members and a quantitative descriptive analysis of the data collection and its use to show how Dryad has worked toward financial sustainability.

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Related works

Is supplement to
Preprint: 10.48550/arXiv.2604.27580 (DOI)

Funding

Dutch Research Council
Caring for COVID-19 Data: Sustaining Open Data Infrastructures VI.Veni.231S.006