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    Words Worth Saying

    Braxton D. ShelleySermon by the Rev. Dr.  Braxton  D. Shelley, Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute and Assistant Professor of Music in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, for the Memorial Church's Sunday Worship Service. Delivered on Sept...

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    Dataverse 4.16

    This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

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    Metrics Redesign

    The metrics view at both the Dataset and File level has been redesigned. The main driver of this redesign has been the expanded metrics (citations and views) provided through an integration with Make Data Count, but installations that do not adopt Make Data Count will also be able to take advantage of the new...

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    Seminarians Speak from Their Hearts and Minds

    KMarie Tejeda speaks at Morning PrayersMemorial Church Seminarian KMarie Tejeda MDiv III speaks at Morning Prayers in Appleton Chapel on Sept. 25. Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications

    Morning Prayers at the Memorial Church often features the thoughtful voices of our seminarians. During the week of Sept. 23, we invited our three Harvard Divinity School students, KMarie Tejeda, Sally Hammel and Grace Killian to share their words and life experiences in the lectern of Appleton Chapel.... Read more about Seminarians Speak from Their Hearts and Minds

    Dataverse 4.17

    This release brings new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to Dataverse. Thank you to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project!

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    Dataset Level Explore Tools

    Tools that integrate with Dataverse can now be launched from the dataset page! This makes it possible to develop and add tools that work across the entire dataset instead of single files. Tools to verify reproducibility and allow researchers to compute on an entire dataset will take advantage of this...

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    Fourth Quarter, 2019 update

    It’s been a year since we began our project to develop a framework for evaluating the health of open source software used in academic research settings by measuring different aspects or factors of OSS projects, which will help answer questions such as how easy it is for people to contribute to OSS projects and how easy it is to use and deploy the software. After initial research into software evaluation frameworks and a number of meetings and workshops with experts, we have chosen the 20 projects that we will use to evaluate our framework.

    All of the projects listed below...

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    Announcement of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Design Program

    The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the award of a $12.7M grant to architect and design a next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT). The principal investigator of this program is the EHT Founding Director, Sheperd Doeleman at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. The ngEHT will sharpen our focus on black holes, and let researchers move from still-imagery to real-time videos of space-time at the event horizon.

    The new award is aimed at solving the formidable technical and algorithmic challenges required to...

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    1452 Poles to Karbala

    Arbaeen marks the 40th day following the tragedy of Karbala. For centuries the Shias have protested against the oppressions and discriminations against the Prophet's household during Arbaeen. Saddam Hussein banned the Arbaeen walk during his rule, but after his fall it was reintroduced in 2003. In recent years, more than 20 million pilgrims annually arrive in Karbala from around the world during Arbaeen. This narrative recounts a personal journey and experience to Karbala on one of these historic walks.

    By Mohd Faizal Musa

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    Come see our latest exhibit, Queering the Collection: LGBTQ+ History ca.1600-1970

    Many library collections contain rich stories of individuals across centuries who transgressed sexual and gender norms, as well as documentation of the people and systems against which they transgressed. These historical artifacts can help shape new narratives around queer history and identity, or enrich old ones.... Read more about Come see our latest exhibit, Queering the Collection: LGBTQ+ History ca.1600-1970

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