2023 Season's Greetings

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C. M. Boyd

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Dec 20, 2023, 11:11:08 AM12/20/23
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Season's greetings, everyone.


The end of the year is upon us! 


As we clean off our desks, cross off to-do list items, and make plans for the new year, the Dataverse Team gratefully acknowledges your many contributions to our vibrant Dataverse Community. Here are a few highlights of this year’s accomplishments:


Dataverse Software

Thank you to the many Community members who contributed issues, pull requests, new features and tools, bug reports, and more helping improve the software. The result: we closed or merged 491 issues and pull requests this year and released four new versions!


The team finalized Restructuring the Dataverse UI as a Single-Page Application. This key document details our plans and work underway to make Dataverse an API-first application. This change will increase UI responsiveness, enable Community members to develop their own apps more easily and help speed up testing and development. See related documents about Dataverse modularity, authentication, and containerization linked inside.


We also retired our old Dataverse project board (https://github.com/orgs/IQSS/projects/2). Please visit our new board, here: https://github.com/orgs/IQSS/projects/34 to view our current backlog and work in progress.


Dataverse Community

The first international Dataverse Community Meeting in Portugal was a great success. We had 104 attendees, 4 workshops, 22 lightning Talks, 2 discussion panels, 9 demos, 15 posters, and 1 keynote. View the agenda and links to talks and presentations here: Dataverse Community Meeting 2023 (https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2023). 


Ten new Dataverse installations launched this year (https://iqss.github.io/dataverse-installations/charts.html) and the Global Dataverse Community Consortium launched their new website. Update your bookmarks: https://www.gdcc.io/.


Six new Community working groups became active this year, too. Visit the links below to learn more:


Presentations and Talks

In addition to the many Dataverse Community Meeting presentations, members of the Community shared their insights, ideas, and developments in 34 talks, available on DataverseTV!


Five of these talks were part of the NIH Generalist Repository Initiative (GREI) webinar series, the most to-date!

  1. Webinar #1: Introduction to using the HDV repository & the NIH DMP HDV guidance document (Link)

  2. Webinar #2:Introduction to Data Management & FAIR (Link) (Slides)

  3. Webinar #3: 1 Introduction to Data Handling on the Dataverse Platform (Link) (Slides)

  4. Webinar #4: 1 Introduction to Metadata in Dataverse Repositories: For Researchers and Support Staff (Link) (Slides)

  5. Intermediate curation on the Dataverse Platform (Link) (Slides)


For those interested in how the Dataverse team and Harvard Dataverse are collaborating with other generalist repositories to better serve biomedical researchers, read more here: The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) 2023 Roundup.

 

Team Arrivals and Departures

Finally, this year saw the arrival of a new project manager, Ceilyn Boyd, and we welcomed three full-time members to our development team: Matt Mangan (frontend development), Juan-Pablo Tosca (backend development), and Steve Winship (backend development and DevOps). We also said a fond farewell to our long-term QA specialist, Kevin Condon. We will miss him!


Harvard and IQSS will be officially closed for the holiday break beginning the afternoon of December 22th and will reopen on January 3rd. During this time, the Dataverse team will be generally unavailable through our normal channels.


We wish you all a healthy and restful holiday season and look forward to continuing working with you and continuing to grow the Community in the New Year!


Best wishes,


The Dataverse Team


Philipp Conzett

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Dec 22, 2023, 1:45:23 AM12/22/23
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Thanks Ceilyn for this impressive end-of-the-year heads-up and summary! It's good to see all the great activities, progress, and goals the Dataverse team and community have achieved in the past year. Thank you to all who have contributed! Looking forward to continuing all the good work in 2024!

Best wishes,
The Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC)

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