Here's what's top of mind for October 2020:
* Repositorio de datos de investigación de la Universidad de Chile launched as the 63rd installation of Dataverse and the first in Chile:
https://datos.uchile.cl* Dataverse 5.1 and 5.1.1 were released:
https://dataverse.org/blog/dataverse-51-and-511* The Flexible Metadata Working Group (and a GDCC Slack) was announced:
https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/dyNNdNXNe-I/m/29Z5bgdCAQAJ* Qualitative Data Repository created its first monthly report of Dataverse-related development work they have performed and planned:
https://github.com/QualitativeDataRepository/dataverse/wiki/QDR-TAB-Monthly-Report-for-September-2020* The University of British Columbia created an Introduction to Dataverse presentation:
https://twitter.com/susanatkey/status/1313886332251377664* The 2020-10-06 Dataverse Community Call was about Dataverse 5.1, 800 MB uploads, getting a copy of datasets on Harvard Dataverse, and more:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PVZbKHqcdZ9QIEMCIcMBzAsJyHjWG4742FC0W6Bk0_8/edit* The 2020-10-20 Dataverse Community Call was about simple support for remote files, Solr on a separate server, large datasets, a new version of Data Explorer in the works, Google Analytics, and more:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YubBMeqSr89UjqDujlwDHAnFkIHl8K3rbWl5jNdgHxs/edit* The article "Research data management policy and practice in Chinese university libraries" mentioned that Dataverse is used by Fudan University and Peking University:
https://twitter.com/PhilippConzett/status/1313776559937990656* Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam published an article titled "Dataverse makes it easy for me to store, archive and share my data":
https://ub.vu.nl/en/news-agenda/news-archive/2019/jan-mrt/dataverse-makes-it-easy-for-me-to-store-archive-and-share-my-data.aspxIf you have any news to add or comments to make, please simply reply to this email!
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