About the Project
The Dataverse Network is an open source application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows to replicate others work. Researchers and data authors get credit, publishers and distributors get credit, affiliated institutions get credit.
A Dataverse Network hosts multiple dataverses. Each dataverse contains studies or collections of studies, and each study contains cataloging information that describes the data plus the actual data files and complementary files.
Awards
2009 Library Technology Excellence Award Honorable Mention
IGI Global announced the new Library Technology Excellence Award, honoring individuals for their effort and commitment to the utilization and understanding of technological resources within the academic and research communities. Micah Altman and the Henry A Murray Archive won Honorable Mention for the paper "Transformative Effects of NDIIPP: The Case of the Henry A. Murray Archive," published in the Winter 2009 issue of Library Trends.
2008 APSA Best Instructional Political Science Website Award
The American Political Science Association (APSA) announced award winners for 2008 in August. The Dataverse Network Project and Gary King won the Information Technology and Politics section award for Best Instructional Political Science Website. The award is described as follows:
"The Best Instructional Political Science Website Award recognizes the Website with the best instructional value for teaching political science."
2007 Harvard Heroes
Harvard Heroes awards recognize Harvard employees and their contributions to the Harvard community. Harvard Heroes are nominated by their peers and winners are honored in a special ceremony presided over by Harvard University President Drew Faust and others. Harvard Heroes provides the university community with a way to celebrate the work of staff and to acknowledge high achievers.
In 2007, members of the Dataverse Network Project won the team achievement award. Team members Merce Crosas, Leonid Andreev, Wendy Bossons, Isabelle Chopin, Gustavo Durand, Ellen Kraffmiller, Bob Treacy, and Akio Sone each were awarded this honor.
History
History of the Name
Special thanks to Ella Michelle King, who won the contest to name our project, and to Pitney Bowe and The Forbin Group, Inc. for trademark assistance.
History of the Project
The Dataverse Network Project is housed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. Coding of the Dataverse Network software began in 2006 under the leadership of Merce Crosas and Gary King. We benefited considerably from our experience with our earlier Virtual Data Center (VDC) project, which spanned 1999-2006 and was organized by Micah Altman, Gary King, and Sidney Verba as a collaboration between the Harvard-MIT Data Center (now part of IQSS) and the Harvard University Library. Precursors to the VDC date to 1987, comprising such entities as a stand-alone software guide to local data, preweb software, and tools to transfer cataloging information by FTP to other sites across campus automatically at designated times.
People
Leadership:
Gary King
Mercè Crosas
Development Team:
Gustavo Durand, Manager
Kevin Condon, QA and Support
Leonid Andreev
Steve Kraffmiller
Michael Heppler
Data Acquisition, Preservation and Archiving Team:
Sonia Barbosa, Manager
Dwayne Liburd