2021-11 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for November 2021:

* The Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya launched their installation of Dataverse: https://dataverse.csuc.cat
* The University of Lorraine launched their installation of Dataverse: https://dorel.univ-lorraine.fr
* The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) launched their installation of Dataverse: https://dataverse.ifdc.org
* Dataverse 5.8 was released: https://dataverse.org/blog/dataverse-software-58-release
* An update to centrally-hosted previewers was announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/CDvd6TSC34I/m/elAGuiPKAQAJ
* A request to help improve metadata fields was put out (with a deadline of Dec. 8th): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/AFkxCeDvVHM/m/sc49_X2hAgAJ
* Jane Fry, Chantal Ripp, and Meghan Goodchild held a webinar called "Dataverse in Canada Series: Introduction and features you didn't know you needed!": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/d1wMT_y1OKc/m/iwgEFQMxAQAJ
* The Dataverse North Expert Group held a webinar called "Dataverse in Canada Series: Community Panel - Use cases from across Canada": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnRBU5Fotv0
* "Creating Guidance for Canadian Dataverse Curators: Portage Network’s Dataverse Curation Guide" was published: https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol10/iss3/2/
* "Dataverse North Metadata Best Practices Guide v 3.0" was published: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5576411
* Slava Tykhonov gave a recorded talk on external controlled vocabularies in Dataverse: https://twitter.com/4tykhonov/status/1461327439238422535
* The 2021-11-02 Dataverse Community Call was about running a helpdesk and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z9DAlTdIfuzfgIj3bFt94Sa2dkuvFHdKapvSL_68U6Y/edit
* The 2021-11-16 Dataverse Community Call was about external controlled vocabularies on the demo server, Tika-related warnings, trouble with postgres upgrades, and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hAYslWoSnY3ZMo2fGpOn3Yg6gD6PUbdsTbIZEDjWQP4/edit
* The 2021-11-30 Dataverse Community Call was about large file upload (recorded), problems uploading logos to collections, and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDnTfyfcpfhsa9PVNwGkUsrHr-eOtYHPjCPr_r4Q9RI/edit
* A link to the new-ish Dataverse Community Calendar was added to https://dataverse.org/events

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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!

We also did presentation for ISKO UK community, it was called Flexibility in Metadata Schemes and Standardisation: the Case of CMDI and the DANS Data Repository.

It's about future distributed Dataverse network with thousand nodes (instances) and federated semantic search .

Slides https://www.slideshare.net/vty/flexibility-in-metadata-schemes-and-standardisation-the-case-of-cmdi-and-dans-research-data-repositories

Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw_EkE9WLjc

Best,

Slava

[Philipp at UiT]

Thanks, Phil,

In the same event that Slava mentioned, my colleague Helene and I presented current and planned metadata support in The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing).

Slides: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/23190
Recording: TBD

Best,

Philipp