2022-08 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for August 2022:

* Repositorio de Datos Académicos RDA-UNR launched their installation of Dataverse, the first in Argentina: http://dataverse.unr.edu.ar
* The research center TRR 170 Late Accretion onto Terrestrial Planets launched their installation of Dataverse: https://planetary-data-portal.org
* The Data Station Archeology for the Dutch archaeological research community launched their installation of Dataverse: https://archaeology.datastations.nl
* ODISSEI portal (Dutch Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) based on Dataverse “archive in a box” is officially launched by DANS, VU and other partners https://twitter.com/ODISSEI_nl/status/1565342711871184896
* The CoronaWhy installation of Dataverse was launched, bringing the total number of Dataverse installations to 88: http://datasets.coronawhy.org
* Dataverse 5.11.1 was released and fixes a couple very serious bugs: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Y5FLip9RR3U/m/Hh0eiLfgBAAJ
* Eryk Kulikowski and Dieuwertje Bloemen from KU Leuven RDR demo'ed a way to create datasets with minimal metadata via API: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/0WmMONTkzOA/m/DgshmqtnAQAJ
* Sonia Barbosa and other members of the Dataverse community will be giving a series of talks through the end of the year as part of the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) Collaborative Webinar Series: https://www.iq.harvard.edu/news/join-dataverse-grei-collaborative-webinar-series
* The CoronaWhy community (under Slava Tykhonovs supervision) has implemented for Dataverse experimental support of decentralized identifiers (DIDs, a new official recommendation from W3C) to do real-time tracking of media channels about the Monkeypox outbreak and store metadata in the blockchain compatible networks:  https://twitter.com/4tykhonov/status/1560635311369383937
* Gustavo Durand gave a talk introducing Dataverse (in Spanish) at the launch event for El Repositorio de Datos Académicos UNR (RDA-UNR): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Fzjl5o6KA
* The 2022-08-09 Dataverse Community Call was about the 5.11.1 hotfix, restructuring how people are represented in the citation metadata block, issues with full text search, DataverseTV, and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N32UZEzw3a2CuZCuflmLpwIi4AXEl7LyS1PZh9GHJEA/edit?usp=sharing
* The 2022-08-23 Dataverse Community Call was about finding funding for Stefan Kasberger (pyDataverse), Globus support, how installations can indicate which issues are important to them, a demo of creating datasets with minimal metadata, sensitive data, and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15yCZjYjKg3uob2K0KnWq_yFWiTS9kuz_g78J0KcEz8w/edit?usp=sharing
* DataverseTV now allows multiple cards per video: https://dataverse.org/dataversetv
* Philip Durbin published another aggregation of top issues per Dataverse installation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ptt0dut_W5hIImOnJFEKOE-u_WfC8H_NWF9h-374HD0/edit?usp=sharing

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Phil

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Philip Durbin
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