2019-08 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for August 2019:

* Dataverse 4.16 was released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v4.16
* The main Dataverse git repo now has 100 contributors: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/Uzxggkt1vew/7CWQiQ07BgAJ
* The Odum Institute made a short video about 2019 Dataverse Community Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1IdJ-nYY0
* The 2019-08-13 Dataverse Community Call was about Make Data Count, TRSA, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/CiwRySAPwU8/HGt9j7iAFwAJ
* The 2019-08-27 Dataverse Community Call was about a new style for release notes, API documentation, and more: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/OK7urq-D8do/SJBN9M4BBQAJ
* Merce Crosas talked about current Dataverse projects to improve computational reproducibility in the welcome address for the R in Pharma conference:  https://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/welcome-address-r-pharma-conference
* Merce Crosas gave a talk entitled "New Reproducibility Workflows with Dataverse: A path for social science journals to increase transparency and rigor in research": https://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/presentations/new-reproducibility-workflows-dataverse-path-social-science-journals
* A new repo called "dataverse-sample-data" was announced: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/u-Yv0U3v4Bo/NgBfDrDlAgAJ
* Renku now supports importing datasets from Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/2H21moBIRgU/PUuai7UNBgAJ

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Phil

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Philip Durbin
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