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Scholars Portal Dataverse Institutional Contacts Meeting

September 24, 2020

Kaitlin Newson

Amber Leahey

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Agenda

  • Housekeeping;
  • SP updates
  • Community talks
    • William Roy (Queen’s), Ève Paquette-Bigras (UdeM), The CEG Dataverse Curation Guide WG
  • Q&A

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SP Updates

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Staffing

  • Welcome back Amber!
  • Meghan on leave for the next year
  • Emailing the SP team: dataverse@scholarsportal.info

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File previewers

  • File Previewers
    • Launched in production in July
    • 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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File previewers

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File previewers

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Data Explorer v2

  • Victoria (SP Developer) has been working on a new version of the Data Explorer
  • Similar interface to the DCT
  • Will resolve several bugs
  • Demo link with a small tabular sample file

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Data Explorer v2 Crosstabs

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Data Explorer Testers

  • Will send out a call for testers in our demo environment
    • Upload tabular data
    • Visualize the data
    • Analyse (try to answer a data question?)
    • Provide feedback to team
  • Please provide feedback to us, we want to hear from you!

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Dataverse 5 Upgrade

  • Our next planned upgrade is to Dataverse 5.1
  • New features and improvements include:
    • Redesigned dataset pages
    • Improved responsiveness on small screens
    • Ability to upload duplicate files in datasets (will display a warning)
    • Improved user experience and performance when downloading many files at a time
    • Ability to upload files without extensions
    • Ability to upload files with the same name
  • Planning for upgrade later in November, final date TBD

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Other updates

  • Maximum file size for uploads increased from 2.5GB to 3GB
  • New permissions role available (“Contributor Plus”)
  • API documentation on SpotDocs
  • Development work is continuing with Globus for large file transfer, stay tuned...

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Community Talks

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Q&A

  • Questions, comments, or things you would like to discuss with the community?
  • Get in touch: dataverse@scholarsportal.info
  • Next meeting: Thursday October 29th