Data Management and Acquisition: July - August 2013
Dataverse Data Management Support/Acquisitions
- Documentation project:Port all documentation (User, Installer, Developer, (new) API from guides.thedata.org to a more flexible format through Sphinx and have the documentation attached to each Dataverse release in GitHub.
- thedata.org
- re-designed the front page of website to make Harvard Dataverse Network more prominently visible when users first come to the site. Also added a section about Current Projects.
- Posted 48 tweets and our twitter followers increased by 25% from June
- Presented project at PKP Conference where it was very well received and met in person with 3/8 publishers we will be working with
- Gained new unsolicited pilot partner (large academic consortia from Italy): CINECA (heard about our project from IASSIST Conference)
- Added APSA, SSRN and Harvard Univ Press as future Data Deposit API partners once the API is available for them to try
- Paper to be published in upcoming book "Sustainable Scholarship" (out in 2014).
- Data Deposit API implementation in progress
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: DVN contracted training and support for Data Management
- Dataverse initiative with Mexico office has begun: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública: ORPHEA on HIV prevention interventions in five african countries, funded by the Gates Foundation
- 9 dataverses created/28 studies created/1 dataverse public
- Subnetwork request in process
Murray Archive : Data Management/Curation/Cataloging/User Support
- 17 Data Applications
- One on site visitor from Japan
- Paper Digitization Project: 113 studies containing paper data to digitize for Dataverse Network Upload/35 completed/12 in process=31 boxes of raw paper materials
Conferences/Workshops
- Data Science for Librarians - Software Carpentry Bootcamp (August)
- PKP Conference - Mexico City (August)
- Research Data Management Overview training (Harvard Library)
Open Issues/Questions:
- MRA dataverse move to Open Scholar Platform
- MRA Volume security in process
Metrics
- 71 Dataverses Created/13 released
- 4 Subnetwork created/4 released/50 dataverses total
- OJS: Total of 8 publishers with >51 journals participating in the OJS-DVN Pilot
- 399 Twitter followers total (25% increase compared to June)
- 4641 visits to thedata.org (107% increase from June); 3075 Unique Visitors (110% increase from June)
- 17 data applicants for Murray Archive Users
- 166 Tickets in dvn_support que
