Meeting Agenda

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June 9, 2015
Pre-meeting Common Models and APIs for Data Publishing and Citation Workshop

 

 

June 10, 2015
Dataverse Community Meeting

 

8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:15 Welcome/Introduction
 

Gary King, Director of IQSS, and Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University
Mercè Crosas, Director of Data Science at IQSS, Harvard University

9:15-10:00 Keynote: Dataverse in the Universe of Data
  Christine BorgmanProfessor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA
10:00-10:30 Introduction to Dataverse 4.0 / Where We Are
  Elizabeth Quigley, Usability Specialist at IQSS, Harvard University
10:30-11:00 Break
  Session 1: Dataverse, the Data Publishing and Archival Life Cycle (Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen)
11:00-11:20 Lightning Talks: Dataverse Journal Use Cases
 

- Data in Brief Dataverse: Paige Shaklee, Publisher at Elsevier
Political Analysis Dataverse: Jonathan Katz, Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics, Caltech

American Journal of Political Science: Sophia Lafferty-Hess, Research Data Manager, ODUM Institute, UNC

11:20-11:40 Metadata & Data Curation Services 
  Thu-Mai Christian, Research Project Coordinator at the Odum Institute at UNC Chapel Hill
11:40-12:00 Preservation Tools: Integration with Archivematica 
 

Leanne Trimble, Data and Geospatial Librarian at Scholars Portal
Allan Bell, Associate University Librarian, Digital Programs and Services, Digital Initiatives
at the University of British Columbia

12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Session 2: Building Community (Sonia Barbosa)
 

 

- Building Community & Dataverse, Mercè Crosas, Director of Data Science at IQSS, Harvard University 
- Contributing code to Dataverse, Gustavo Durand, Dataverse Project Manager at IQSS, Harvard University 
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Dataverse Internationalization, Yin Shenqin, Project Manager, Deputy Research Librarian, Fudan University Library 
  & Zhang Jilong, Vice Director, Social Science Data and Research Center at Fudan University;
  Vice Director at Fudan University Library

2:00-3:30
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Report Back From Breakout Sessions
5:30 Wine and Cheese Reception - Location: IQSS

June 11, 2015
Dataverse Community Meeting

8:30-9:00 Coffee
  Session 3: Dataverse, supporting Research and Teaching (Elizabeth Quigley)
9:00-10:00 Lightning Talks: Dataverse Use Cases
  - Project TIER Dataverse: Richard Ball, Associate Professor of Economics at Haverford College
  & Norm Medeiros, Associate Librarian for Collection Management & Metadata Services at Haverford College
MIT Libraries Dataverse: Katherine McNeill, Social Science Data Services and Economics Librarian at MIT
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Dataverse: Nilam Prasai, Data Curator at IFPRI
Astronomy Data in Dataverse: August Muench, Journals Data Scientist at American Astronomical Society
UiT Open Research Data: Obiajulu Odu, Senior IT Engineer, University Library at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  & Philipp Conzett, Academic Librarian, University Library at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
 
- DataverseNL: Ben Companjen, Information Systems Engineer / Information Manager at Data Archiving
  and Networked Services (DANS) 
10:00-10:15 Data Exploration & Analysis: TwoRavens 
  Vito D'Orazio, Post-Doctoral Fellow at IQSS, Harvard University
James Honaker, Senior Research Scientist at IQSS, Harvard University
10:15-10:30 Data Visualization with Plotly
  Alex Johnson, Founder at Plotly
10:30-10:45 Break
  Session 4: Expanding to Support More Research Data (Gustavo Durand)
10:45-11:00 Geospatial Data Visualization: WorldMap Integration
  Raman Prasad, Senior Software Developer (Dataverse) at Harvard University
11:00-11:15 Data analysis in Dataverse & visualization of datasets on historical maps
 

Vyacheslav Tykhonov, Software Developer and Architect, International Institute of
Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands

11:15-11:30 Open Science Framework Dataverse Add-On
  Sherry Lake, Senior Data Consultant and Librarian for Data and Computer Science, University of Virginia Library
11:30-12:00 Sharing Privacy Sensitive Data: DataTags
  - Vision: Latanya Sweeney, Professor, Department of Government at Harvard University
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 DataTags Survey Application: Michael Bar-Sinai, Fellow at IQSS, Harvard University
12:00-12:15 Storage Systems: Integration with iRODS
  Jonathan Crabtree, Assistant Director for Archives and Information Technology at the Odum Institute, UNC Chapel Hill
12:15-12:30 Big Data Repository for Structural Biology: Challenges and Opportunities
  Piotr Sliz, Director, SBGrid Consortium
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00
  • Breakout Session 5 (S001) : Sharing Sensitive Data (led by Latanya Sweeney & Jonathan Crabtree)
  • Breakout Session 6 (S003) : Visualization and Analysis Tools (led by Raman Prasad & Vito D'Orazio)
  • Dataverse in-depth Training (S040):  (bring your laptops), led by Sonia Barbosa
  • Dataverse API Training (S050): Discussing APIs led by Philip Durbin
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Report Back From Breakout Sessions & Concluding Remarks
4:30-6:00 Dataverse Advisory Board Meeting (closed meeting for Advisory Board members only)