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<div>Elizabeth Quigley from the Dataverse Development Team here. I wanted to jump in to answer a few questions for you as well as direct you to a few links that could be helpful. </div>
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<div><a href="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/">Harvard Dataverse</a> is the installation of Dataverse we run at Harvard that is open to researchers from any institution or organization and is free to use. This option is updated whenever we have a new release
of Dataverse so it is running the latest version, 4.0.1. If you are interested in hosting (or testing it out) the software at your own university, it can be downloaded off of <a href="https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases">Github</a> and those release
notes link to the installation guide. If you want to play around with the latest version without downloading the software, you can do that at our <a href="https://dataverse-demo.iq.harvard.edu/"></a><a href="https://dataverse-demo.iq.harvard.edu/">demo sit</a><a href="https://dataverse-demo.iq.harvard.edu/">e</a>. </div>
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<div>Then, Paula, to answer your question about a group of user-support people, there is a <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/dataverse-community">Dataverse Community Group</a> in Google Groups that is fairly active. You can also email
our support team directly at <a href="mailto:support@dataverse.org">support@dataverse.org</a> if you have any questions.</div>
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<div>Hope this is helpful and feel free to reach out to me with any questions as well.</div>
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<div>Elizabeth</div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Elizabeth Quigley</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Usability Specialist</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Data Science @ IQSS</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Harvard University</font></div>
<div><a href="http://datascience.iq.harvard.edu/">http://datascience.iq.harvard.edu/</a></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><a href="mailto:equigley@iq.harvard.edu">equigley@iq.harvard.edu</a></font></div>
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From: <b>Paula Lackie</b> <<a href="mailto:plackie@carleton.edu">plackie@carleton.edu</a>><br>
Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:17 PM<br>
Subject: Re: IASST-L [Rdap] Dataverse<br>
To: "Research Data, Access and Preservation" <<a href="mailto:rdap@asis.org">rdap@asis.org</a>><br>
Cc: "<a href="mailto:rdap@mail.asis.org">rdap@mail.asis.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:rdap@mail.asis.org">rdap@mail.asis.org</a>>, iassist-l L <<a href="mailto:iasst-l@lists.columbia.edu">iasst-l@lists.columbia.edu</a>><br>
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My apologies for cross posting an rdap thread to iassist but I'm hopeful that we will get more information about supporting dataverse this way.<br>
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In response to the question from rdap asking for advise on setting up a dataverse: I am sure that others will have more usefully direct information but I at least have a couple of points that I hope may at trigger some larger collaborations.<br>
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First; I'm assuming the school is planning on running it from a hosted service. In that cast there's no direct control over the version so it will be useful to pay attention to whether or when the host has upgraded. The newest version reportedly has much greater
security controls but I haven't played with it yet to know how easy (or not) it may be. We have a tiny pilot project that has been graciously hosted by the Odum Institute and they have not yet upgraded to the new version.<br>
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The previous version is reportedly a behemoth to run so if they were considering installing it locally, they will need an extremely powerful system to support it. I assume that the newer version is similarly power-hungry.<br>
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And on to my distracting question:<br>
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Does anyone know of a group of dataverse user-support people or do we need to start such a group?<br>
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If it/they exist, where?<br>
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Thank you kind data people!<br>
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Paula Lackie<br>
Carleton College<br>
Research and Data Support<br>
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> On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Cunera M Buys <<a href="mailto:c-buys@northwestern.edu">c-buys@northwestern.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi everyone<br>
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> A school here at Northwestern is considering using Harvard's Dataverse software to create a data repository. Does anyone have experience using the Dataverse software? If so, we'd like to know about your experience. We are interesting in learning all we can
about Dataverse software and have questions such as was using the software easy or difficult, what problems you encountered, the amount of time and staffing needed, any costs etc.<br>
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> Feel free to contact me off list.<br>
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> Thanks<br>
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> Cunera Buys<br>
> E-science Librarian<br>
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