Nice call yesterday. Here are the notes:
2019-02-12 Dataverse Community Call
Agenda
* User Testing Recruitment
* Community Questions
Attendees
* Danny Brooke (IQSS)
* Derek Murphy (IQSS)
* Jim Myers (QDR)
* Pete Meyer (HMS)
* Péter Király (Göttingen)
* Julian Gautier (IQSS)
* Gustavo Durand (IQSS)
* Sherry Lake (UVA)
* Slava (DANS/DataverseEU)
* Paul (DANS)
* Phil Durbin (IQSS)
* Jon Crabtree (Odum)
* Jamie Jamison (UCLA)
Notes
* User Testing Recruitment
* Looking for researchers who use GitHub in the course of their research
* 45 minute session, participant will look at mockups and give feedback
* If you’re interested or know someone who might be a good fit, email Derek at
dlmu...@g.harvard.edu * (Jon) We're happy to help.
* (Jamie/UCLA) We’d also be glad to help
* Community Questions
* (Jon) Core2 grant - building a tool that allows researchers to verify reproducibility and running code from Github
* Will share more info, very early on
* (Pete) Heads up about a container escape vulnerability. This isn't specific to Dataverse.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5736 * (Sherry) New home page available in production:
https://dataverse.lib.virginia.edu * Upgrading to 4.9.4 on Feb 13 (tomorrow)
* Issue with links after a change in hierarchy:
https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/5454 * May want to check `
https://dataverse.lib.virginia.edu/robots.txt ` (currently recommending search engines not index)
* (Jon) Consortium
* Can take credit cards now, lots of new inquiries, student has been hired to help move things forward, external advisory board forming
* A form will be going up soon to capture suggestions for advisory board members
* Consortium GitHub organization has been created:
https://github.com/GlobalDataverseCommunityConsortium * (Péter) Question about Core Trust Seal for Göttingen. Who can I talk to?
* (Jon) Odum is working on it, have been talking to Harvard.
* (Phil) QDR (
https://qdr.syr.edu ,
https://www.coretrustseal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Qualitative-Data-Repository.pdf ) and Tilburg (
https://blog.uvt.nl/rs/2018/06/tilburg-university-dataverse-receives-coretrustseal-certification/ ) have the Core Trust Seal certification.
* (Jon) Check out the extended guidance on the Core Trust Seal site
* (Jon) Happy to talk with any people about proposals in progress
* (Péter) Custom metadata schemas. We have to update the Solr schema. Conflicts when Dataverse updates the schema. Any plans to move to a dynamic schema.
* (Pete) I apply a diff. (manual custom schema.xml vs distribution schema.xml ; apply when distribution schema.xml gets updated)
* (Phil) I've been thinking we should be using the Solr API to programmatically create fields. As you suggest, an alternative would be to make all the fields dynamic. Maybe create a GitHub issue? This does sound painful. The decision to use Solr instead of ElasticSearch, which is schemaless, was fairly arbitrary. At the time, Solr was much better known.
* (Jon) We're meeting soon (Thursday afternoon?) to talk about external storage for Dataverse, Trusted Remote Storage Agents (TRSA), etc.
* (Pete) sounds interesting
* (Danny) Proposal form is open for 2019 Dataverse Community Meeting:
https://dataverse.org/events