2017-02 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* Launch of Texas Data Repository: https://tdl.org/2017/01/announcing-official-launch-texas-data-repository/
* Launch of Dataverse e-cienciaDatos: https://edatos.consorciomadrono.es
* DANS upgraded to Dataverse 4 (and baked cakes!): https://twitter.com/DANSKNAW/status/831824618348539904
* A "Introduction to Data repositories + Dataverse" talk is being given at the DRTC/ISI-ICSU/CODATA International Workshop on Open Data Repositories: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/odr/content/schedule-0
* The 2017-02-14 Dataverse Community Call was about user testing, DDI, indexing by Google, persistent identifiers for licenced data and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/xeNmAkJZHW4/qVxRXQ7YBQAJ
* The 2017-02-28 Dataverse Community Call was about the new DDI working group, tabular mapping being done for Dataverse 4.6.2, new subjects coming in Dataverse 4.7, a new workflow feature under development, the "request access" workflow, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/6Twh8KLhmQg/rR9TP-cPAQAJ
* DataCite Webinar on A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/data-citation-roadmap-scholarly-data-repositories
* Presentation on FAIR Data Management and FAIR Data Sharing at the Critical Perspectives on the Practices of Digital Archeology, in a session on Data Curation and Reuse: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/fair-data-management-and-fair-data-sharing
* Presentation at Two Sigma on Dataverse, DataTags, and Cloud Dataverse: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/dataverse-cloud-dataverse-and-datatags
* Poster on Citation++: Data Citation, Provenance, and Documentation on the integration of provenance with Dataverse at the NSF SI2 PI Conference: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/citation-data-citation-provenance-and-documentation
* Presentation at the Qualitative Data Sharing workshop at SESYNC, in a session on lessons learned from quantitative data sharing: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/qualitative-data-sharing-workshop
* Victoria Stodden and Phil Bourne have been confirmed as keynote speakers for the third annual Dataverse Community Meeting, which will be held at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University on June 14th, 15th, and 16th, 2017. The call for proposals is open: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2017

Thanks,

Phil

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Philip Durbin
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http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin