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July 03, 2024

Dataverse Software 6.3 Release

Dataverse 6.3 is now available. Many thanks to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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May 09, 2024

Announcing Dataverse 6.2

Dataverse 6.2 is now available! Thank you to the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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March 26, 2024

Harvesting Data From the Field to the Cloud, the 2024 Dataverse Community Meeting

The 10th anniversary of the Dataverse Community Meeting, held March 4-8th at CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico, served as a platform for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and envisioning the future of data systems, leaving a lasting impact on the participants and the community at large. CIMMYT is crucial in improving the quantity, quality, and dependability of production systems for maize, wheat, and associated crops, especially in the Global South, underscoring its importance in agricultural development.

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December 15, 2023

Dataverse Software 6.1 Release

Dataverse 6.1 is now available. Many thanks to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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September 12, 2023

Dataverse Software 6.0 Release

This is a platform upgrade release. Payara, Solr, and Java have been upgraded. No features have been added to the Dataverse software itself. Only a handful of bugs were fixed.

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June 12, 2023

Collaborative Harmony: The Dynamic Evolution of the Dataverse Community

The Dataverse Project Team has just returned from the 9th annual Dataverse Community Meeting that took place at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, from June 5th to 7th, 2023. This regional community meeting marked a significant milestone as it paved the way for the participation of the 100 Dataverse installations worldwide in hosting future meetings. The 2024 Community Meeting will be hosted by The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), one of fifteen CGIAR research centers, located in Mexico.

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Collaboration and Community: Dataverse at cvs,conf,v7

May 09, 2023 The cvs,conf,v7 conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 17-20 saw the participation of The Dataverse Project team, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Datacite, and Borealis Dataverse Consortium. This was a significant moment as it marked the first time the conference was held in the Southern Hemisphere with the aim of encouraging greater involvement of the Latin American community. Read more... Share on: Facebook Twitter Linkedin

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February 14, 2023

Dataverse Software 5.13 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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November 07, 2022

Dataverse Software 5.12.1 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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November 04, 2022

Restructuring the Dataverse UI as a Single-Page Application

We are seriously considering a major change to the architecture of Dataverse to make it an API-first application, allowing for a more modern web interface and a more modular backend. In particular, we plan to transform the Dataverse UI into a Single Page Application. We would love to receive your feedback on the document we have prepared and titled Restructuring the Dataverse UI as a Single-Page Application.

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October 28, 2022

Fighting Spam in Dataverse Installations

When a Dataverse installation is configured to allow anyone to sign up and to allow those users to create and publish datasets and/or collections, which is useful for self-service data publishing, it opens the door for abuse, i.e. from spammers seeking to promote their websites by publishing content in the Dataverse installation with links back to their website.

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October 05, 2022

Dataverse Software 5.12 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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August 02, 2022

Dataverse Software 5.11.1 Release

This is a bug fix release of the Dataverse Software. The .war file for v5.11 will no longer be made available and installations should upgrade directly from v5.10.1 to v5.11.1. To do so you will need to follow the instructions for installing release 5.11 using the v5.11.1 war file. (Note specifically the upgrade steps 6-9 from the 5.11 release note; most importantly, the ones related to the citation block and the Solr schema). If you had previously installed v5.11 (no longer available), follow the simplified instructions in the link below.

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June 13, 2022

Dataverse Software 5.11 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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April 06, 2022

Dataverse Software 5.10.1 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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March 18, 2022

Dataverse Software 5.10 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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December 16, 2021

Dataverse Software 5.9 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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November 09, 2021

Dataverse Software 5.8 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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October 19, 2021

Dataverse Software 5.7 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project. You can learn more and download the release on GitHub:

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August 13, 2021

Dataverse Software 5.6 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project. You can learn more and download the release on GitHub:

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May 21, 2021

Dataverse Software 5.5 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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April 09, 2021

Dataverse Software 5.4 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to the Dataverse Software. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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March 08, 2021

Dataverse Project creates guide to help repositories with CoreTrustSeal certification

The Dataverse Project community has created the Dataverse Software Guide for CTS Certification to help collection support staff of Dataverse repositories obtain CoreTrustSeal (CTS) Certification. During this certification process, collection support staff conduct a self-assessment, collecting evidence of and documenting its curatorial expertise, policies and operations. By itself, the required level of self assessment can help staff discover their repositories’ strengths and weaknesses, improve their services, and be more transparent.

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January 29, 2021

Dataverse 5.3 Release

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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August 20, 2020

Dataverse 5.0

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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April 07, 2020

Dataverse 4.20

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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January 22, 2020

Dataverse 4.19

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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November 15, 2019

Dataverse 4.18

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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October 04, 2019

Dataverse 4.17

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project!

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September 26, 2019

Dataverse 4.16

This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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April 15, 2019

How Europe’s top agricultural research institute, INRA, uses Dataverse to improve data sharing

L'Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), or the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, updated their Dataverse-based repository in late January 2019. With the update, the repository, called Portail Data Inra, is able to ingest more types of tabular files, better preserving and presenting tabular data. And the repository sends more metadata to DataCite in order to improve data discovery.

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June 21, 2018

From Analog to Bytes: The Transformation of the Murray Research Archive

The Henry A. Murray Research Archive (MRA) at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) is a permanent repository for qualitative and quantitative research data. Founded in 1976, tucked away in Radcliffe Yard, the MRA was fondly known as The Murray Center, emphasizing the study of lives over time, with a particular focus on the lives and concerns of women. Even from these early years, the MRA was defined by its commitment to a transparent scientific process and the promotion and sharing of research data.

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April 11, 2018

Dataverse 4.8.6 Release

This release introduces a modular Explore feature to support external tools. It includes performance enhancements for S3 storage, provides an API endpoint to move datasets and other improvements, includes documentation improvements and fixes a number of bugs.

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November 08, 2017

Dataverse 4.8.2 Release

In Dataverse 4.8.2, curators may again edit datasets while "In Review." Also, experimental Docker images are now available. We've also fixed several small bugs.

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October 12, 2017

Dataverse 4.8.1 Release

Dataverse 4.8.1 is a small release that contains performance enhancements for Datasets containing large numbers of files.

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September 27, 2017

Dataverse 4.8 Release

In this release we introduce support for AWS S3 file storage, providing Dataverse installations with a cloud option. We also include support for Large Data upload via rsync and integration with an external application, the Data Capture Module (DCM). Other enhancements include improved Swift object storage, csv file ingest improvements, support for increased password complexity, downloading large guestbooks, removal of a user's roles, improved documentation, and various bug fixes.

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July 25, 2017

A Comparative Review of Various Data Repositories

Any fish can tell you: It’s important to know the waters you’re swimming in. To that end, Usability Researcher Derek Murphy and Product Research Specialist Julian Gautier have put together a spreadsheet that compares Dataverse’s features, usage, and governance with other prominent online data repositories. In this way, we sought to discover trends in repository design to help inform future development of Dataverse. Now we would like to share our findings with the community.

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July 17, 2017

Dataverse 4.7.1 Release

This release introduces a user management view to the administrator dashboard, listing relevant user information, providing search and super user promotion/demotion functionality. A few other community requested fixes and modifications are also provided.

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June 23, 2017

Dataverse 4.7 Release

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.

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June 08, 2017

Dataverse 4.6.2

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:

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March 14, 2017

4.6.1 Release

The 4.6.1 release of Dataverse is now available!

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December 13, 2016

Dataverse 4.6 Release

The main feature of this release is a File Landing Page, which provides a static URL for files and will serve as a base for expanded file options, such as versioning, provenance, and metadata explorations. Features and bug fixes in this release include:

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November 29, 2016

Dataverse/RSpace Integration

Dataverse and Research Space are pleased to announce an integration of the RSpace electronic lab notebook with Dataverse. This integration, described in the following brief video, enables researchers to deposit datasets directly from RSpace to any Dataverse.

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November 14, 2016

Scientific Data now recommends Harvard Dataverse for all areas of Science

Beginning Monday, November 14th, the Nature Research journal Scientific Data will include Harvard Dataverse in its newly expanded list of general purpose data repositories, for researchers submitting supporting datasets from any research subject, including biology, health, physical, earth, and social sciences. Harvard Dataverse has been recommended by Scientific Data for social science data since early 2015, and this latest development increases the options for authors when sharing data and helps towards the publication of reproducible research, all while using a well-established repository with over 60,000 datasets and 2 million downloads. Users of Harvard Dataverse will not need to move their data from the repository to publish in the journal, regardless of discipline.

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November 01, 2016

Harvard Dataverse Homepage Survey

The Dataverse Team is currently working on a new redesign of the Harvard Dataverse home page, and we’re looking for your input! IQSS’s new Product Research Specialist Julian Gautier and Usability Research Assistant Derek Murphy have put together a brief (5 minute long) multiple choice survey that lets you tell us what qualities you look for in a data repository. Your input will inform our design of the new homepage to improve existing users’ experience with the site and to help orient new users. To participate in the survey, just follow this link:

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October 07, 2016

Dataverse 4.5.1 now available!

The main feature of this release is the restoration of the IP Groups functionality, which is an important step for several installations moving to Dataverse 4. Additional features include email verification, dynamic copyright in the page footer, and support for Piwik analytics.

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August 25, 2016

Dataverse 4.5 is here!

The four main features of this release are Harvesting, Metadata Export, Private URL, and Federated Login Mode.

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July 25, 2016

Dataverse 2016: Fostering the Community

Thank you to the Dataverse Community for another successful Community Meeting July 11-13th. It was an exciting few days of learning about Dataverses around the world and connecting as a community. All presentation slides have been posted on the Community Meeting website in the Agenda section. Additionally, the keynote and Updates on Dataverse talks were recorded and available on the website in the Agenda section as, “Keynote and Update on Dataverse”.

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May 13, 2016

Dataverse for Journals

Are you a publisher looking for a data sharing solution for your journals? Or do you have a journal and are looking for a place to reliably host your author’s data? This blog post will explain some of the ways journals can use Dataverse and will preview some upcoming functionality which will be tailored to journals.

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April 24, 2016

UVa Library Launches “Libra Data”—University of Virginia Dataverse Repository

On March 29, 2016 the University of Virginia (UVa) Library announced their new “Libra Data” service, powered by Dataverse. Libra Data is a place for UVa researchers to share data publicly, and is part of the Libra Scholarly Repository suite of services which includes works of UVa scholarship such as articles, books, theses, and data. Libra Data will make it much easier for users to deposit datasets into the repository.

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April 08, 2016

Q & A with Peking University Dataverse

Peking University (PKU) recently released their Open Research Data Platform for their university with code forked from our Dataverse github repository (with several brilliant institution-specific customizations), and so we invited them to answer a few questions about their Dataverse

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March 30, 2016

Now Minting DOIs with DataCite Metadata Store API

With the release of Dataverse 4.3 in mid-March, anyone installing or updating to the most recent version of the Dataverse software will be able to mint DOIs directly through the DataCite Metadata Store API. This functionality was originally announced at DataCite’s General Assembly and Strategy Meeting February 2016 - Amsterdam (Netherlands) and according to Patricia Cruse, Executive Director, DataCite:

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February 16, 2016

Dataverse Software Release v4.2.4

The latest release of the Dataverse software, v4.2.4, is now available to download from GitHub. This is a patch release to address issues with harvested dataset links and correct the behavior of zip downloads when selecting restricted files to which you do not have permission. There are a few other corrections such as fixing the :ZipDownloadLimit setting, allowing a Dataverse installation administrator to adjust the maximum amount of data that can be downloaded at one time. We have also reorganized our Installation Guide and added significantly to the content.

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February 12, 2016

Announcing the 2016 Dataverse Community Meeting

The Dataverse Team at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science is excited to announce the second annual 2016 Dataverse Community Meeting, taking place July 11-12th at Harvard Medical School’s Armenise Amphitheater. This year we look forward to continuing to grow the Dataverse Community that was established during the 2015 Dataverse Community Meeting.

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July 10, 2015

We are now a community!

The first annual Dataverse Community Meeting June 9-11th was a success thanks to you, the Dataverse Community! Thank you to all who attended the meeting, presented, and participated in breakout sessions each afternoon.

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April 13, 2015

Dataverse 4.0 is here!

Harvard Dataverse has been upgraded to Dataverse 4.0 and is available for all to use at dataverse.harvard.edu

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April 09, 2015

Dataverse 4.0, Next Week!

At the beginning of next week, April 13th, Harvard Dataverse will be upgraded to Dataverse 4.0! The current version of the Harvard Dataverse (thedata.harvard.edu) will still be available for the next month for you to view. However, you will be able to edit, upload, or download in the new release 4.0 and can benefit from the new functionalities there.

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April 09, 2015

Dataverse 4.0: Permissions

Dataverse 4.0 has an entirely new way to grant access to a dataverse, dataset, and restricted files. Each dataverse and dataset has their own permissions page.

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April 09, 2015

Dataverse 4.0: Adding Data

In 4.0, you can add a dataverse or a dataset directly into the Harvard Dataverse by clicking on the Add Data button.

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April 09, 2015

Dataverse 4.0: CC0 Default Dataset Waiver

In Dataverse 4.0, by default, all datasets added into Dataverse are granted the CC0 waiver. Dataverse will use CC0 because of its name recognition in the scientific and open data community, making it a familiar option for data (for which copyrights do not apply) since it is actively used by repositories as well as scientific journals that require the deposit of open data. For more information on CC0, please visit the Creative Commons website (http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0). Data depositors can change this waiver for their datasets, if needed.

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April 08, 2015

Dataverse 4.0: Theme + Widgets

The Theme + Widgets feature provides you with a way to customize the look of your dataverse as well as provide code for you to put on your personal website to have your dataverse appear there.

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February 27, 2015

Register Now for the Upcoming Annual Dataverse Community Meeting (June 9-11)

You are cordially invited to take part in the Annual Dataverse Community Meeting, hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), which includes a pre-meeting Common Models and APIs for Data Publishing and Citation Workshop on June 9th and a two-day Community Meeting on June 10th and 11th at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

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February 12, 2015

Featured Dataverse Repository: Fudan University

Since Fudan University (Shanghai, China) publicly launched their Fudan University Dataverse repository on December 2014, they have collected over 46,000 files from 1,319 researchers and 5,796 projects that are affiliated with the university.

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