2020-12 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for December 2020:

* Florida International University's Research Data Portal launched as the 66th installation of Dataverse: https://dataverse.fiu.edu
* Dataverse 5.3 was released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v5.3
* DataverseNO has been included in Scientific Data's list of recommended repositories: https://twitter.com/DataverseNO/status/1337411532075003908
* Slava Tykhonov gave a talk entitled "Ontologies, controlled vocabularies and Dataverse": https://twitter.com/4tykhonov/status/1334542716705927168
* A video was posted for the talk "Dataverse and OpenDP: Tools for Privacy-Protective Analysis in the Cloud" by Mercè Crosas, James Honaker, and Chris Wright: https://research.redhat.com/research-days-us-2020-recordings/
* The 2020-12-01 Dataverse Community Call was about an ORE/Bag RFC, trusted external storage, variable level metadata, software metadata, and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XtZqAK6hYeWqPkydWCZpa6QJbZN18Rvb-dGZZ1JXEY/edit
* The 2020-12-15 Dataverse Community Call was about the upcoming Dataverse 5.3 release, accessibility, new Jenkins tests from AUSSDA and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z0YE3w7dSU3M4NXL2TKLGHiFlMN3uI1TfeN-lZxpK7M/edit
* The Controlled Vocabulary Values metadata working group had a kickoff meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s2rXOJzsc2RBjpv84Ziff5yT8fekXIdZiMw_u-yhNQc/edit?usp=sharing
* The Remote Stores/Registries metadata working group had a kickoff meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cqFXU8mnGsgbkxJ1p3WYR__TIdkPHKh0uOx8mxZ3iqU/edit?usp=sharing
* The DDI/variable-level metadata working group had a kickoff meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19u3zDQPmgD5hFAYRR8zURmhBwrVhotq8_BwEaV_2uQ0/edit?usp=sharing

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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

[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]

Thanks, Phil!

I also gave a talk for the European CLARIN community on the CMDI metadata support in Dataverse: https://www.slideshare.net/vty/clarin-cmdi-support-in-dataverse

Best,

Slava