2017-06 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Busy month! Here's what's top of mind from June 2017:

* CIRAD Dataverse was launched: https://dataverse.cirad.fr

* University of Manitoba Libraries Dataverse was launched: https://dataverse.lib.umanitoba.ca

* Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2017 Dataverse Community Meeting! Slides and notes are linked from https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2017/agenda and please don't forget to fill out the survey: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/_3o7PnoGQaI/7iJcb9_UAgAJ

* New blog post (with nice pictures): Forging connections at the 2017 Dataverse Community Meeting: https://dataverse.org/blog/forging-connections-dcm-2017

* Dataverse 4.6.2 was released (tabular mapping improvements, Swift as a storage backend, Handle support and more): https://dataverse.org/blog/dataverse-462

* Dataverse 4.7 was released (easier branding/customization, Zotero and Endnote support, redirect after login for Shibboleth users thanks to Alexander Ivanov from QDR, User Guide proofread thanks to acme146, and more): https://dataverse.org/blog/dataverse-47-release

* You can play around Data Explorer from Scholars Portal by passing in a URL to your installation of Dataverse like this: https://scholarsportal.github.io/Dataverse-Data-Explorer/?uri=https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/api/access/datafile/47298/metadata/ddi

* The 2017-06-06 Dataverse Community Call was about Chronopolis, ORCID login, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/hyj0mPMt5-w/ka7w7qI4BgAJ

* The 2017-06-20 Dataverse Community Call was about Harvesting, file size limits, Shibboleth, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/iKbhjB1DRmE/ixThGTjzAAAJ

* Merce Crosas wrote an article "Cloud Dataverse: A Data Repository Platform for the Cloud" for CIOReview: http://openstack.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/cloud-dataverse-a-data-repository-platform-for-the-cloud-nid-24199-cid-120.html

* Merce Crosas gave a talk entitled "Practical Implementation of research data policies: Solutions with Dataverse" at the Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing: https://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/practical-implementation-research-data-policies-solutions-dataverse

* The Dataverse Cup was awesome: https://twitter.com/dataverseorg/status/875140997457600512

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Thanks!

Phil

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Philip Durbin
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