2016-11 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind from November 2016:

* Tania Schlatter joined IQSS to work on user experience, interface, and usability efforts: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/bhBaSr8X1Yo/xBUmg8RGCAAJ

* New blog post on RSpace integration with Dataverse: http://dataverse.org/blog/dataverse-rspace-integration

* Usability testing began for upcoming changes to Dataverse, including file landing pages, file replace and versioning, and ORCID (OAuth login) integration: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dataverse-community/2ufR__eoQxU

* (The Dataverse team is always looking for people interested in helping test planned improvements. Please email sup...@dataverse.org to let us know you’re interested, and feel free to let others in your network know.)

* The 2016-11-08 Dataverse Community Call was about the new Data Explorer app by Scholars Portal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W-32DThmzEondKlLtt4iWBbeofNh3UoS54JTRV5-Zd4/edit?usp=sharing

* The 2016-11-22 Dataverse Community Call was about Cloud Dataverse, a collaboration with Mass. Open Cloud, and the Data Locality Module (DLM) feature being developed in coordination with SBGrid: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16P0feohPzPflDOtv9GMA-bAe3i3QdHvQRrnc6uPjX3Y/edit?usp=sharing

* Eugene Barsky from University of British Columbia Library recorded a "Using Dataverse for Research Data Registration" webinar: https://www.westgrid.ca/events/best_practices_research_data_management_using_dataverse_research_data

* Vyacheslav Tykhonov from DANS gave a talk called "Dataverse Opportunities": http://www.slideshare.net/vty/dataverse-opportunities-69418921

* Texas Digital Library gave an introduction to the Texas Data Repository, powered by Dataverse: https://tdl.org/tdl-data-symposium/

* Gustavo Durand gave a talk called "Persistent IDs Throughout Dataverse" at PIDapalooza: https://figshare.com/articles/Persistent_IDs_throughout_Dataverse/4275800

* Nature Research journal Scientific Data adds Harvard Dataverse as a "generalist repository": http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2016/11/14/expanding-our-generalist-data-repository-options/

* Survey conducted on Harvard Dataverse homepage (results to be shared with the community in the future): http://dataverse.org/blog/harvard-dataverse-homepage-survey

* The genTB data repository (Translational Genomics of Tuberculosis), powered by Harvard Dataverse, was launched: https://gentb.hms.harvard.edu/share/

* Over 2 million downloads at https://dataverse.harvard.edu 

* New page on collaborations: http://dataverse.org/collaborations

* New page on integrations: http://dataverse.org/integrations

* The next Dataverse Community Meeting will be held at Harvard University on June 14, 15, and 16, 2017: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2017

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Thanks,

Phil

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Philip Durbin
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