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The Dataverse is an open source application that allows researchers to share, cite, and analyze research data. It provides persistent identifiers for data citations. Dataverse repositories can contain multiple dataverses that each may contain datasets or other dataverses. Dataverse has been implemented at universities around the world, with some of the largest repositories located in the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States at Harvard University. It includes APIs for searching, depositing, and accessing data and alternatives include DSpace and CKAN.

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Dataverse

The Dataverse is an open source application that allows researchers to share, cite, and analyze research data. It provides persistent identifiers for data citations. Dataverse repositories can contain multiple dataverses that each may contain datasets or other dataverses. Dataverse has been implemented at universities around the world, with some of the largest repositories located in the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States at Harvard University. It includes APIs for searching, depositing, and accessing data and alternatives include DSpace and CKAN.

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Dataverse

The Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research
data.[1][2] Researchers, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive
appropriate credit via a data citation with a persistent identifier (e.g., DOI, or handle).

A Dataverse repository hosts multiple dataverses. Each dataverse contains dataset(s) or other dataverses,
and each dataset contains descriptive metadata and data files (including documentation and code that
accompany the data).

In 2019, Dataverse won the Duke's Choice Award for university and higher education.[3]

Background
The Dataverse Project is housed and developed by the Dataverse Team at the Institute for Quantitative
Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. Coding of the Dataverse (previously known as Dataverse
Network) software began in 2006 under the leadership of Mercè Crosas and Gary King. The earlier Virtual
Data Center (VDC) project, which spanned 1999-2006, was organized by Micah Altman, Gary King, and
Sidney Verba as a collaboration between the Harvard-MIT Data Center (now part of IQSS) and the
Harvard University Library. Precursors to the VDC date to 1987, comprising such entities as a stand-alone
software guide to local data, preweb software, and tools to transfer cataloging information by FTP to other
sites across campus automatically at designated times.[4]

Installations

Harvard Dataverse

A collaboration with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), the Harvard Library, and Harvard
University Information Technology (HUIT): the Harvard Dataverse is a repository for sharing, citing,
analyzing, and preserving research data. It is open to all scientific data from all disciplines worldwide.

Dataverse in Europe

Dataverse is also installed in the countries of the European Union to preserve data collected by research
communities of Netherlands, Germany, France and Finland. The largest Dataverse repository is called
DataverseNL[5] and located in the Netherlands providing data management services for 11 Dutch
Universities. A similar service is being developed in Norway (cf. DataverseNO[6]).

Dataverse in Canada

In Canada,[7] Borealis is a national instance of the Dataverse repository hosted by OCUL's Scholars Portal
at the University of Toronto.[8] Borealis allows institutions to offer a Dataverse service without operating
and maintaining the software themselves. Most academic institutions offering a Dataverse service in
Canada subscribe to the Borealis service. The associated community of practice is organized through the
Digital Research Alliance's Network of Experts via the Dataverse North Expert Group,[9] a coordination,
collaboration and communication instance.

Dataverse installations around the world

There are several other Dataverse repositories installed in Universities and organizations around the world.
Here is a list of some Dataverse repositories:

The Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA)


Odum Institute
Dutch Universities (dataverse.nl operated by DANS)
Fudan University
University of Alberta Libraries
Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen (ToRS)
ABACUS - British Columbia Research Libraries' Data Services
Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository - Scholars Portal - Ontario Council of
University Libraries (OCUL)
HeiDATA - Heidelberg University
DataverseNO (Norwegian universities)
CIRAD Dataverse (France)
DataSuds (France)
The Australian Data Archive

APIs and interoperability


The Dataverse currently has multiple open APIs available, which allow for searching, depositing and
accessing data.

Alternatives and similar projects


DSpace is often compared with Dataverse and is used for storing scientific data. CKAN provides similar
functions and is widely used for open data.

See also
Data citation
Data sharing

References
1. Crosas, M. "The Dataverse Network: An Open-Source Application for Sharing, Discovering
and Preserving Data" (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january11/crosas/01crosas.html). D-Lib
Magazine. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
2. "About the Project" (http://dataverse.org/about/). Dataverse.
3. Chander, Sharat (September 16, 2019). "2019 Duke's Choice Award Winners!" (https://blog
s.oracle.com/java/2019-dukes-choice-award-winners). Oracle. Archived (https://web.archive.
org/web/20210203094352/https://blogs.oracle.com/java/2019-dukes-choice-award-winners)
from the original on February 3, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
4. "History of the Project" (http://dataverse.org/about/). About the Project. Retrieved 27 May
2015.
5. "DataverseNL" (https://dataverse.nl/). dataverse.nl. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
6. "DataverseNO" (https://dataverse.no/). dataverse.no. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
7. "Borealis: A New Name for Laurier's Dataverse Data Repository | Laurier Library" (https://libr
ary.wlu.ca/news/2022-07-borealis-new-name-lauriers-dataverse-data-repository).
library.wlu.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
8. "Introducing Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository / le dépôt Dataverse - Dataverse -
SPOT-DOCS" (https://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=254221
777). spotdocs.scholarsportal.info. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
9. "Network of Experts" (https://alliancecan.ca/en/services/research-data-management/network
-experts). Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Retrieved 2023-05-08.

External links
The Dataverse Project (http://dataverse.org/)

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