2017-01 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind from January 2017:

* Johns Hopkins University Data Archive has migrated its production instance from Dataverse Network 3.6.2 to Dataverse 4.6: https://archive.data.jhu.edu
* The Dataverse usability team is gearing up to run usability tests from February 15th to 22nd. Tests can be done remotely and take about an hour or less to complete. If you’re interested in helping us make Dataverse more easy and enjoyable to use, please sign up to participate using this signup form: https://goo.gl/forms/gjUxyFh7XSGFzKbe2
* An OAuth login feature (via ORCID, GitHub, and Google) will be shipping with the next version of Dataverse, which is expected to be 4.6.1: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-dev/5lppyOH7ANc/_Hzcb9tLBgAJ
* A new "file replace" feature and new related APIs will be shipping with the next version of Dataverse and a server has been set up for testing: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-dev/2DH-VOAB1VY/uPE66vE0BwAJ
* The 2017-01-03 Dataverse Community Call was mostly about big data: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vm9jT9DKKqudaekK1fztqbcPxzogrd840w92fdBC4Zk/edit?usp=sharing
* The 2017-01-17 Dataverse Community Call was about the upcoming 4.6.1 release, submit for review workflows, metrics, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/jGN8Zf_65z0/2VWA8yVGFwAJ
* The 2017-01-31 Dataverse Community Call was about the Dataverse Community Meeting (call for proposals now open), expanding the vocabulary used for the "Subject" metadata field, upcoming usability testing, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/uDl01J8qMbg/68G6om-BAQAJ
* Dataverse is getting support to develop APIs for streaming (frequently updated) data as part of the NSF RIDIR grant awarded to the Boston Area Research Initiative: https://www.northeastern.edu/csshresearch/bostonarearesearchinitiative/
* Through the Force11 Data Citation Implementation pilot group, Dataverse is involved in conversations with Google and schema.org team to update schema.org so that it supports dataset metadata, thus making datasets from repositories more relevant in Google searches (if the dataset landing page supports schema.org). Related paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/097196
* Dataverse Project UX Research Dataverse published: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/dataverse-ux-research-dataverse
* Talks about Dataverse were given at DataFest: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/datafest2017
* The next Dataverse Community Meeting will be held at Harvard University on June 14, 15, and 16, 2017. Please feel free to submit a proposal! http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2017

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Thanks,

Phil

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Philip Durbin
Software Developer for http://dataverse.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin