2018-01 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for January 2018:

* The DataverseEU project was announced: http://aussda.at/en/news/news/dataverseeu-reducing-language-barriers/
* A "dataverse-reports" project was announced: https://github.com/TexasDigitalLibrary/dataverse-reports
* A "Dataverse-Web-Report" project was announced: https://github.com/scholarsportal/Dataverse-Web-Report
* A Dataverse New Year Survey (help us prioritize development for 2018) was announced: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/HMsy1t4BVT4/yGb-HFxgAgAJ
* Dataverse 4.8.5 was released, containing most bug fixes for IP Groups, guestbooks, and more: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v4.8.5
* The 2018-01-02 Dataverse Community Call was about branding, Open Repositories, and persistent IDs for files: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/ZwGDIK5X4kY/kOTstLzmAwAJ
* The 2018-01-16 Dataverse Community Call was about persistent IDs for files, multilingual support, harvesting, DataTags, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/xkZ5y5gW7a8/AaqqBJK7AQAJ
* The 2018-01-30 Dataverse Community Call was about the New Year Survey, Data Explorer, Docker, DataverseEU, tools written at TDL and Scholars Portal for reporting metrics on Dataverse installation, licenses at the file level, "Download URL" for files, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/WlENLGH9yJM/Y9ALifdBAAAJ
* Merce Crosas gave a talk about research data management at Harvard, including use of Dataverse: https://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/research-data-management-harvard-0

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