2023-08 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for August 2023:

* Dataverse 5.14 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/vSNA6byusik/m/6hFhneLKAQAJ
* Guillermo Portas recorded a demo of the new Dataverse frontend: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/cxZ3Bal_-uo/m/h3kh3iVNCwAJ
* Slava Tykhonov gave a recorded talk entitled "Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Search in Dataverse": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/C4qDFRcop8U/m/k5S_JANtBwAJ
* Sonia Barbosa and Julie Goldman will be giving a webinar entitled "Introduction to Using the Harvard Dataverse Repository & the NIH DMP Harvard Dataverse Guidance Document" on September 14th: https://support.dataverse.harvard.edu/event/introduction-curation-harvard-dataverse-intro-nih-and-harvard-dataverse
* Katie Mika will be giving a webinar entitled "Introduction to Data Management & FAIR" on September 20th: https://support.dataverse.harvard.edu/event/introduction-data-management-fair
* Paul Lesack announced new Python utilities for Dataverse (dataverse-utils on PyPI): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/o64iIU7hi1g/m/HQIGJPlwCwAJ
* Don Sizemore updated SchemaSpy (for browsing database tables) for version 5.14 of Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/f95DQU-wlVM/m/9HcRbaSVBQAJ
* The KU Leuven RDR Team is working on RO-Crate support for Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Lex0JdTLJMQ/m/DbWlUwXNAAAJ
* Dataverse joins NIH-funded collaboration on climate change and health (CAFE): https://www.iq.harvard.edu/news/iqss-dataverse-joins-nih-funded-collaboration-climate-change-and-health
* The 2023-08-22 Dataverse Community Call was about the aforementioned talk by Slava, Ask the Data, working group meetings, remaining 6.0 items, and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ISFdqNJjtuMrI7KxxwOSrD48jkILpvnHcT9C4iXc2g/edit?usp=sharing
* 15 people have signed up as interested in the Dataverse Community Sustainability Working Group: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/llVsBHZ7pC8/m/4Y1Tsf5cAAAJ
* The Sensitive Data Working Group scheduled their kickoff meeting for September 26th: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/P-yR0JV26Fc/m/7VkOsxRqBwAJ
* The UI Component interest group plans to meet the second week of September: https://dataversecommunity.slack.com/archives/C05AZPC6L5D/p1692364541262769
* The Containerization Working Group meets every Thursday: https://ct.gdcc.io
* University Duisburg-Essen library is looking for an RSE to do development on Dataverse and MyCoRe: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/z5Pjj48z1qA/m/DZcRNU-FAQAJ
* Developers are asked to upgrade to Payara 6: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-dev/c/54AFJ_m8yXU/m/v4_UFNanAAAJ
* Developers are asked to upgrade to Java 17: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-dev/c/RnKAmpoGSf8/m/ebjAoAO8AAAJ

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Phil

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Philip Durbin
Software Developer for http://dataverse.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin