H A R V A R D D A T A V E R S E U S E C A S E
A Community Data Repository Working With The Library (+ University)
Eleni Castro, Research Coordinator Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS)
Harvard University
IASSIST 2016 - June 1
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Harvard Dataverse Facts: http://dataverse.harvard.edu - 1 of the 18+ installations using the open source Dataverse Project code - 61, 744 datasets // open to researchers worldwide from any discipline
A Community Repository At Harvard
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� Not just Harvard affiliated data
� Harvard Dataverse is also a place for: ¡ Journals (Quarterly Journal of Economics, Political Analysis) ¡ Research Organizations (International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI), Population Services International (PSI)) ¡ Other Institutions (MIT Libraries, Boston College)
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Library + IT
5 Source: Flickr Commons (Widener Library)
Infrastructure
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Since 2012:
Integrations w/ Library Tools
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Working Group (Library Stewardship Standing Committee) Customize DMPTool for Harvard
Data Projects
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Harvard Licensed Datasets in Harvard Dataverse
Coming soon: Harvard Dataverse Policies & Support Team
Harvard Subscription Data
Domain Specific Libraries
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(Expand Dataverse Metadata to Support More Disciplines)
Life Sciences
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Software + Metadata Extension Data Management Collaboration
HMS Research Data Management WG
Astronomy
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Software + Metadata Extension
Virtual Observatory Resource Schema
Automatically ingest metadata from FITS files.
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Business + Management
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University-wide collaboration
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Open Data Assistance Program (ODAP)
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Open Data At Harvard
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Thank You!
Contact: ¡ [email protected] or [email protected] ¡ Website: http://dataverse.org ¡ Twitter: @dataverse.org
17 https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14753332781/