Highlights of the latest version of Dataverse as well as an overview of current and upcoming collaborations for the future of Dataverse.

1. Dataverse 4.0
Elizabeth Quigley
Usability Specialist
Data Science @ IQSS, Harvard University
Dataverse Community Meeting 2015

2. Why did you take 3.6
away from me?

3. “For change to
be accepted, it
needs to first
have real value
to the user.”
Elegant Hack

4. Why did we rewrite
Dataverse?

5. Usability Issues
● Back button didn't work
● Granting access to a file was cumbersome
● Dynamic collections indexing
● Search issues
● Icon confusion
○ Settings Cog in particular

6. 4.0 Feature Updates

7. Goodbye Collections
● Everything is a dataverse
● Ability to nest dataverses

8. Version Control

10. Let’s take a look at 4.0!
Dataverse Demo

11. What's next for
Dataverse?

12. 4.0 Updates
● Fix more bugs
● Add in ability to edit + manage groups
● Add in published data on Account Pages
● Sorting + Filtering of files on dataset page
● Restore Shibboleth support

13. Long Term Plans
● Secure Dataverse
● Integrating with DataTags
● More metadata support

14. Have a feature request?
● Create a ticket @ github.com/iqss/dataverse
● Email me: equigley@iq.harvard.edu
Want to participate in a usability study?
● Email me: equigley@iq.harvard.edu or tweet
@dataverseorg