Last week, more than 200 participants from around the world gathered to learn about, discuss, and improve Harvard’s own open-source research data repository software, Dataverse. Dataverse is developed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and used by researchers and journals at Harvard University and beyond to archive, share and receive credit for data. At the 2017 Dataverse Community Meeting, attendees and speakers from over 60 universities and other research organizations convened to discuss and address subjects such as data sharing, reproducibility of research, the data lifecycle, and integrating Dataverse with visualization tools, computational resources, and expanded data storage options.
This release provides more customization and branding options for installations, improves documentation, provides better interoperability with citation tools, and incorporates code and bug fixes contributed by the Dataverse developer community during our recent community meeting hackathon.
Allow creating a custom homepage, header, footer, navbar logo.
Remove the system generated word Dataverse from dataverse names, making it optional.
Make all system notifications use the name of the root dataverse in place of the word Dataverse.
This release includes improvements to mapping tabular data via WorldMap, support for object storage using Swift, support for Handles as persistent identifiers, improvements to the guides and various bug fixes:
Fixed classification for latitude/longitude maps
Restored WorldMap preview modal
Added map thumbnail to dataset page
Remove map data that subsequently becomes restricted
Verify WorldMap links remain valid
Improved Geoconnect documentation based on UX review