Supported / Unsupported file formats

[Data CUHK]

Hi everyone,

Is there any documentation for the supported / unsupported file types and formats for Dataverse?

I saw that there is a guide for supported tabular file formats for ingest and some general info for accepted data types, I wonder if there is a list of file formats that Dataverse doesn't support.

Thanks,

Jack

[Sebastian Karcher]

Hi Jack,

That's answered at the top of your second link -- there are no unsupported/supported file formats: "Harvard Dataverse Repository supports any data format regardless of file extension."

There are file formats for which specific functionality is available: Tabular ingest (see the link you posted, though I don't believe the version numbers of the software are current -- e.g. RData files from R v4.x are supported.

Previewers are more complicated and I don't think there's a full list anywhere -- there's also a fair amount of configuration that goes into this (e.g. Harvard Dataverse is configured to preview .do files and .R files as text files -- which they are -- but doesn't do that for .py files, though they're in the exact same category).

Al best,

Sebastian

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[Data CUHK]

Thanks Sebastian,

Then is there a place to configure limitation for the format of the file uploaded? 

We encountered a user who attempts to upload code (.py) to our Repository and it returns an error message (dataset.message.addFiles.Failure) saying "Failed to add files to dataset..."

Jack

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Jack,

Can you reproduce that "unable to add a .py file" problem on https://demo.dataverse.org ?

Thanks,

Phil

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[Data CUHK]

Hi Phil,

There was no problem uploading python script on https://demo.dataverse.org/. However, it keeps loading in our Dataverse installation.

 

I checked our Bundle.properties and found a configuration for the failed upload message (dataset.message.addFiles.Failure). I couldn't locate where this parameter is passed to in the Harvard Dataverse documentation to see how it is triggered in other scripts. 

Is there a configuration file to include all unaccepted files for a Dataverse installation (v.5.10.1)?

Thanks,

Jack

[Sebastian Karcher]

That looks like it triggers your virus scan (Kaspersky) -- that'd be plausible for a script.

You could turn that off, obviously (though probably don't want to), or you can likely whitelist specific files or even entire file types in Kaspersky, but that's a Kaspersky, not a Dataverse setting.

Sebastian 

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