2017-03 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind from March 2017:

* Dataverse 4.6.1 was released including support for ORCID authentication, a file replace feature, Native API upload, and more: http://dataverse.org/blog/461-release
* Heidelberg University upgraded to Dataverse 4: https://twitter.com/Duhem_/status/848908521320177664
* More details have been posted to the Dataverse Community Meeting 2017 website (the deadline for submitting a proposal is April 15): http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2017
* Canada's CARL Portage Network announces the launch of Dataverse North: http://dataverse.org/blog/canada%E2%80%99s-carl-portage-network-announces-launch-dataverse-north
* The DDI Workflows for Dataverse group met for the first time and meeting minutes are available: https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DDI4/DDI+Workflows+for+Dataverse
* A video titled "DOI & Portail Dataverse" (in French) by Esther Dzalé Yeumo was posted: https://twitter.com/spouyllau/status/836473286485770240
* There was a presentation on Dataverse by Marion Wittenberg at second CESSDA SaW (Strengthening and widening) workshop: https://twitter.com/CGuldfeldt/status/837259906206007296
* An article was published in D-Lib Magazine that mentions Dataverse: "The Landscape of Research Data Repositories in 2015: A re3data Analysis": http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march17/kindling/03kindling.html
* Dataverse was mentioned in the article "Practices of research data curation in institutional repositories: A qualitative view from repository staff": http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173987
* Merce gave a talk called "Dataverse, Cloud Dataverse, and DataTags" at Two Sigma: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/dataverse-cloud-dataverse-and-datatags
* An article mentioned data.harvard.edu (which embeds the widget from the The Harvard Open Data Dataverse): http://uwire.com/2017/03/03/opening-doors-with-open-data/
* Social Feed Manager published a guide on releasing datasets to Dataverse: https://twitter.com/SocialFeedMgr/status/842055167121997825

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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