2016-12 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Happy New Year! Here's what's top of mind from December 2016:

* Dataverse 4.6 released: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/4GzzdUMnGKk/ANsCQbLnEAAJ
* 4.6.x Usability Testing Recommendations and Results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mNNRqRqIW92LXock332sIA-uXh-2agOpoyLLLKwXUA0/edit?usp=sharing
* The 2016-12-06 Dataverse Community Call was about RSpace integration: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rSCs4mjlcuA02AjNW4zATP-pbB2xL133K6s8OZ8iewg/edit?usp=sharing
* Vyacheslav (Slava) Tykhonov from DANS gave a talk about Dataverse and FAIR: http://www.slideshare.net/vty/fair-dataverse
* Merce Crosas gave a Cloud Dataverse talk at a Mass Open Cloud workshop: https://info.massopencloud.org/blog/2016-moc-fall-workshop/
* New paper published: "Extension of research data repository system to support direct compute access to biomedical datasets: enhancing Dataverse to support large datasets" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.13272/full
* LIBER Quarterly blogged about how they've started hosting data with Harvard Dataverse: http://libereurope.eu/blog/2016/12/05/research-data/
* The next Dataverse Community Meeting will be held at Harvard University on June 14, 15, and 16, 2017: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2017

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Thanks,

Phil

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Philip Durbin
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