2019-01 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for January 2019:

* Botswana Harvard Data launched as the 36th installation of Dataverse (and first in Africa): https://dataverse.bhp.org.bw
* Scholars Portal blogged about deploying Dataverse 4.10 and new internationalization features: https://ocul.on.ca/scholars-portal-launches-bilingual-dataverse-repository-platform
* Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) was added to the Scientific Data/Springer Nature list of recommended social science repositories: https://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories#social
* The Dataverse team blogged about Dataverse 4.10 features: https://dataverse.org/blog/dataverse-410-release-includes-new-features-internationalization-support-large
* Dataverse 4.10.1 (bug fixes) was released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v4.10.1
* Joel Simpson created a video about the new integration between Dataverse and Archivematica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9o5tzzDliA
* A new forum for discussing persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as DOIs and Handles was launched: https://www.pidforum.org/t/launching-the-pid-forum-at-pidapalooza-2019/33
* The 2019-01-15 Dataverse Community Call was about internationalization: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/itJaVMGWrzM/Egx88tDOEQAJ
* The 2019-01-29 Dataverse Community Call was about new preservation features, external tools, and internationalization: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/7gORU1hR30g/EhwdT921FgAJ

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Phil

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Philip Durbin
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