Exciting news from Canada --University of Victoria Dataverse (in Borealis) is CTS certified!

[Amber Leahey]

http://www.uvic.ca/library/about/events/news/current/core-trust-seal.php

UVic Dataverse certified as a trustworthy repository

Oct. 28, 2024 - The University of Victoria Libraries is happy to announce that University of Victoria Dataverse has been certified as a Trustworthy Data Repository by the CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board.

CoreTrustSeal is an international non-governmental organization promoting sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructures. Achieving this certification demonstrates that University of Victoria Dataverse meets the highest standards of data management and preservation.

UVic researchers who deposit their research data with the libraries can be assured that it will continue to be discoverable, accessible, and reusable for many years to come. For data users, it means they can trust the data we hold follow best practices in data curation, thereby enhancing their quality and usability.

University of Victoria Dataverse is a proud member of Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository. Borealis is a bilingual, multidisciplinary research data repository service provided in partnership with academic libraries and research institutions across Canada.

The University of Victoria Libraries is the first Canadian academic library to achieve this certification. Funding and support for our CoreTrustSeal application was provided through a grant from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and the Borealis community.

[Philipp Conzett]

Great news! Congrats!

Philipp

[Sherry Lake]

Way to go, University of Victoria!

This brings me back to the conversation of how many Dataverse "repositories" are there? How do we count them? 

Borealis is like Texas Data Repository where there are sub-dataverse (collections) that are really separate Institutional Data Repositories. There are other examples, Murray Research Archive on Harvard; Emory on UNC's Dataverse instance.

Thoughts?

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Sherry Lake

 

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[Philip Durbin]

Great news, Amber! I created an issue to add UVic's CoreTrustSeal to the map of installations: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-installations/issues/251

Sherry, we definitely talk internally about how to better count Dataverse repositories. Sonia and I talked about this as recently as last week. It probably deserves its own thread. I'm happy to share some thoughts so far.

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dataverse-community/CADL9p-W7dhvH6_ywd0v6bwp_XYmPRb3Cs-Adjf8UH831gizkmw%40mail.gmail.com.

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Philip Durbin
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[Philipp Conzett]

Good question, Sherry. Related to this is the question of how many institutions the different Dataverse installations serve. In the past, I've tried to do some counting, see, e.g., slide 14 in the presentation used in the Updates from the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) 2023 session: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29380. For example, one installation can serve dozens of institutions, such as in the case of the Borealis repository.

I don't know how to expose this information in an appropriate and machine-friendly way. Maybe the ORGANISATIONS section in the FAIRsharing record could be considered. See, e.g., the FAIRsharing record for DataverseNO: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.5O9YTT.

Best,

Philipp

[Vaidas Morkevičius]

Similarly, this information could be exposed via re3data.org via "Institutions" tab, see record for DataverseNO: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012538.

Best wishes,

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Vaidas Morkevičius

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[Philip Durbin]

Yes, absolutely, here's the issue about associating re3data with installations, but it could be extended to include hosted organizations: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-installations/issues/190

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