#  Data Management and Acquisition: July - August 2013 

 





September 20, 2013

 

 

 Dataverse Data Management Support/Acquisitions

- Documentation project:Port all documentation (User, Installer, Developer, (new) API from [guides.thedata.org](http://guides.thedata.org/) to a more flexible format through Sphinx and have the documentation attached to each Dataverse release in GitHub.
- [thedata.org](http://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
 
 OJS: Integration of Open Journal System (OJS) with DVN (Sloan Grant) - [Presented project at PKP Conference](http://thedata.org/presentations/linking-ojs-and-dataverse) 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](/http:/www.cineca.it/) (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](http://libraryjuicepress.com/sustainability-toolkit.php)" (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](http://www.saludglobalinsp.mx/)
- 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](http://ds.hul.harvard.edu/ds/events/data-management-overview-training-librarians) (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](http://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
 


 

 

 

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