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Scholars Portal Dataverse Institutional Contacts Meeting

November 28, 2019

Kaitlin Newson

Meghan Goodchild

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Agenda

Housekeeping;

Slides and agenda/notes on DV contacts resources page: http://bit.ly/2Nw78DZ
Notetaker

Upgrade to 4.17

Status
Review of new features
Shibboleth integration

CANARIE project updates
DataCite Canada
Sharing Dataverse resources
Other updates
Building a Roadmap for SP Dataverse
Community Q&A

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Upgrade to 4.17

4.10.1 -> 4.17 on Oct. 31st
Features include:

File hierarchies
Dataset and file-level metrics redesign
Internationalization improvements
Shibboleth & Affiliation Groups
Data Curation Tool
HTML codebook export

See https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases for more details

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New features - File hierarchy

How does this work?

Zip up the folder that contains the files within the hierarchy
Dataverse will unpack the zip and the directory structure will be stored in the metadata
See the structure within the file paths!
You can also edit the file path metadata to make changes to the file hierarchy

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New features - Filter by tags

Did you know?

You can also create custom tags
Users can search the dataset based on these tags and download a subset of the files

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Shibboleth and other login

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Shibboleth Groups

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Affiliation Groups & Permissions

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How to use groups?

IP groups

For restricting data access within a specific institutional IP range.

Affiliation groups

Users that have signed up with their institutional email address and are affiliated with the institution in their account.
Note that users must verify their email address to be able to be added to this group.
Investigating potential bug.

Shibboleth groups

Users that have signed up or converted their account to Shibboleth. For participating institutions only.

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CANARIE project update

Developing more documentation for Data Curation Tool
Continuing working on deliverables related to large-file upload/download

Testing the Data Capture Module
Investigating/planning integration with Globus Connect as transfer utility

Aim to publish more blog posts and share more of our testing results

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DataCite Canada

CRKN and CARL Portage to manage DataCite Canada as of January 1, 2020

Approved as consortial member of DataCite
Communicating with current DataCite Canada members in November
Transition plan from NRC to CRKN/CARL is in development
Aim to be seamless transition
More details to be shared soon

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Sharing Dataverse resources

SP Resources:

https://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/DAT/Promotional+and+Training+Materials

Institutional contacts page:

https://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/DAT/Shared+Dataverse+resources

If you would like to be added to the group to edit/access this page, please complete the quick form
Other suggestions/comments?

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Other updates

Scholars Portal Dataverse blogpost on the DCT

https://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/DAT/2019/09/26/Introducing+the+Data+Curation+Tool

New documentation being developed:

New login/sign-up workflows
How to transfer your account to a Shibboleth account

Working with the UX lab at UTL to do usability testing on Dataverse platform
Updating the Data Explorer (release date TBD)

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Building a roadmap for SP Dataverse

Dataverse Project Roadmap (https://www.iq.harvard.edu/roadmap-dataverse-project)

Q4 2019 Additional File Previews (release in version 4.18)
Q1 2020 Homepage Visualization
Q1 2020 Citations for Dataverses
Q2 2020 Redesigned, Scalable Dataset and File Pages
Q3 2020 Embargo