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: ¡  ecastro@fas.harvard.edu or support@dataverse.org ¡  Website: http://dataverse.org ¡  Twitter: @dataverse.org

17 https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14753332781/