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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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Sign up (non-Shibboleth)

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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

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Other updates

  • Scholars Portal Dataverse blogpost on the DCT
  • 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

  • What other ideas do you have? Please share!

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Community Q&A

  • Questions, comments, or things you would like to discuss with the community?
  • Get in touch: dataverse@scholarsportal.info
  • Holiday schedule reminder
    • December community call will be cancelled
    • SP offices closed as of Dec. 23rd and reopen Jan. 6th; limited support