2018-04 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* QDR (Qualitative Data Repository) launched their installation of Dataverse: https://data.qdr.syr.edu
* Global Dataverse Community Consortium Announcement: https://dataverse.org/blog/global-dataverse-community-consortium-announcement
* Dataverse 4.8.6 was released, including support for external tools such as Data Explorer, better S3 support, and more: https://dataverse.org/blog/dataverse-486-release
* Odum recorded a video of their use of Data Explorer in production: https://twitter.com/Odum_Institute/status/986306496328884224
* New video "How to map data in Dataverse using WorldMap": https://twitter.com/HarvardCGA/status/974746182785347585
* The 2018-04-10 Dataverse Community Call was about CoreTrustSeal certification, Ansible, handling hundreds of file uploads, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/fT98c0eGgCc/9rBkIYmuAQAJ
* The 2018-04-24 Dataverse Community Call was about #dataverse2018 proposals (due tomorrow!), the Dataverse Consortium, GDPR, persistent IDs for files, Archivematica, BagIt, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/SIIKg22Tsik/P2M_lcNeAwAJ
* New Developments in AUSSDA's Dataverse Platform: http://aussda.at/en/news/news/new-developments-in-aussdas-dataverse-platform/
* Data policies of social science journals: https://twitter.com/adam42smith/status/980880613292027904
* Bob Freeman gave a talk called "Dataverse and RDM Opportunities at Harvard": http://www.codata.org/events/conferences/goettingen-codata-rdm-symposium-2018

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