How does it work?
Dataverse Networks involve installations of our open source, web-application software hosted at major institutions. Individual
dataverses are self-contained virtual data archives, which are served by a Dataverse Network, and appear on the web sites of authors, teachers, journals, granting agencies, research centers, departments, and others. Dataverses are branded in the style of their virtual host, but are easy to set up, require no local software installations, and still offer all the services of a modern archive controlled by the dataverse owner. For example, click
Dataverse at
this homepage or
Find Data at
this archive. Each dataverse is styled like the rest of the site, but its URL is different, indicating that the page is served from elsewhere and so required no local installations. These and many other dataverses are served by the same
Dataverse Network at IQSS, where you also can
get your own dataverse. The extensive digital library services of each dataverse include data archiving, preservation formatting, cataloging, data citation, searching, conversion, subsetting, online statistical analysis, and dissemination. Each dataverse presents a hierarchical organization of data sets, which might include only studies produced by the dataverse creator (such as for an author or research project), those associated with published work (such as replication data sets for journal articles), or data sets collected for a particular community (such as for a journal's replication archive, or a college class or subfield).
Learn more: Gary King. "An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing,"
Sociological Methods and Research, 32, 2 (November, 2007): 173--199, (Abstract:
HTML | Article:
PDF).