Dataverse Progress Report June 2013

We released Dataverse versions 3.5 and 3.51 in June and July of 2013. New features of these versions include:

• (3.5) Initial support of ingest of R data files.
• (3.5) Faceted search for Studies.
• (3.5) Sub-networks for facilitating searching and organizing specific groups of Dataverses.
• (3.5.1) Ability to request access to restricted files on a file-by-file basis (rather than the entire study).
• (3.5.1) New UI for Study Permissions Page.
• (3.5.1) Ability to upload and extract .tar files.

For more information on these releases, see:

https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/projects/dvn/versions/61 (for 3.5)

https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/projects/dvn/versions/66 (for 3.5.1)

In addition we merged the CfA Dataverse Network into the Harvard Dataverse Network (formerly the IQSS Dataverse Network).

We are currently working on version 3.6, which will include:

• Initial implementation of Data Deposit API, with SWORDv.2 compliance.
• Initial support for DOIs
• Handling of ordinals in R ingest.
• Improvements to UI and user experience based upon Usability Study.

This released is planned for August 2013.