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Scholars Portal Dataverse Institutional Contacts Meeting

June 25, 2020

Kaitlin Newson

Meghan Goodchild

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Agenda

  • Housekeeping;
  • Service updates
  • Dataverse Community Meeting 2020
  • Other updates/announcements
  • Community Q&A

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Welcome!

  • 55 institutions now subscribing to the service
  • Welcome to Mount Royal University

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Dataverse Community Meeting 2020

  • Agenda: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2020/agenda
  • 600 registered attendees
  • Scholars Portal Dataverse Community video [link]
  • Slides and recordings to be posted soon

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Dataverse Community Meeting 2020

  • Canadian representation:
    • Kaitlin Newson (Scholars Portal) co-chaired the “External Tools” session and presented on the Data Curation Tool
    • Meghan Goodchild (Scholars Portal) co-chaired the “Remote Storage/Large Datasets” session and presented on the Globus transfer integration project
    • Alex Cooper and Martine Gagnon (Dataverse North) presented on the Dataverse North Metadata Best Practices Guide
    • Eugene Barsky, Mark Goodwin and Paul Dante (UBC) presented on the Geodisy project that features Scholars Portal Dataverse datasets

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Dataverse Community Meeting 2020

  • Feedback from you!
    • How did you find the meeting?
    • What new projects/initiatives did you find exciting?
    • Questions?

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Other updates

  • File Previewers!
    • Finishing up testing; plans to push to production this month
    • Ability to preview files within the browser before downloading
    • File types:
      • Audio: mp3, mpeg, wav, ogg
      • Video: mp4, ogg
      • Image: gif, jpeg, png
      • Document: PDF, txt
      • And more!

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File previewers

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Other updates

  • Webinars and Presentations
    • Portage Tech Tools Showcase on June 16 at 1PM
      • Meghan presented on the Data Curation Tool
      • Alex Garnet presented on Radiam
      • Tim Vines presented on DataSeer
      • CARL YouTube video

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Other updates

  • OpenAIRE covid-19 gateway
    • “Aims to aggregate COVID-19 records (publications-data-software-other research outcomes), link them together and provide a single access point for their discovery and navigation”
    • FRDR team had additional development work (almost completed)
    • FRDR will soon send feed of harvested metadata (including SP Dataverses)
    • Portage will send an announcement once completed
  • Next meeting:
    • Note: No meetings in July/August; Resuming in September
    • 1PM on last Thursday of the month?

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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