The Dataverse Network®: An Open-Source Application for Sharing, Discovering and Preserving Data

• Published in: D-Lib magazine Vol. 17; no. 1/2
• Main Author: Crosas, Mercè
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Information communication; Open source software
• ISSN: 1082-9873; 1082-9873
• DOI: 10.1045/january2011-crosas

The Dataverse Network is an open-source application for publishing, referencing, extracting and analyzing research data. The main goal of the Dataverse Network is to solve the problems of data sharing through building technologies that enable institutions to reduce the burden for researchers and data publishers, and incentivize them to share their data. By installing Dataverse Network software, an institution is able to host multiple individual virtual archives, called "dataverses" for scholars, research groups, or journals, providing a data publication framework that supports author recognition, persistent citation, data discovery and preservation. Dataverses require no hardware or software costs, nor maintenance or backups by the data owner, but still enable all web visibility and credit to devolve to the data owner. Adapted from the source document.