2017-05-23 Dataverse Community Call

[Philip Durbin]

Here are my notes, copied from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3TvPG4CI_CrQrNF0nOzTmLTS8YNmCyKkPecW_QB43U/edit?usp=sharing

Phil

2017-05-23 Dataverse Community Call

Agenda

* Dataverse Community Meeting Updates
* Community Questions
 
Attendees

* Phil Durbin (IQSS)
* Steve Kraffmiller (IQSS)
* Derek Murphy (IQSS)
* John O'Connor (Boston College)

Notes

* Dataverse Community Meeting June 14th-16th
   * http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2017
* Questions from the Community
* BC is implementing ORCID, encouraging all faculty to join. Knows about necessary Shibboleth attributes.
   * https://help.hmdc.harvard.edu/Ticket/Display.html?id=238211 will remain closed for now but they may re-visit it Fall 2017.
* BC hosts with Harvard at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/bc
* Welcome email doesn't mention Boston College, looks like it comes from Harvard. Reassure users that they're in the right spot.
   * BC does have a "research guide" and "BC Dataverse Quick Start Guide" linked from their dataverse description.
   * Could use widgets
      * Example site: https://gking.harvard.edu/data
      * Docs: http://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.6.1/user/dataverse-management.html#widgets
* Shibboleth: institution appears in drop down due to membership in Research & Scholarship (R&S) but login fails with "Problem with Identity Provider The SAML assertion for [attribute] was null." https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/3749
* John just tried the ORCID login and it works.
* John is coming to the community meeting.

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Philip Durbin
Software Developer for http://dataverse.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin