MIT Libraries Dataverse https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mit

Katherine McNeill

Research Data Librarian

Dataverse Community Meeting 2015

Background

• History of partnership in the Harvard-MIT Data Center

since the mid-1990s

• Use of the Virtual Data Center (predecessor of Dataverse)

• Liaison: MIT Social Science Data Librarian

Basics of our Dataverse

• Managed by the MIT Libraries (in Harvard Dataverse)

• Platform to house and disseminate datasets purchased by

the Libraries for MIT students/faculty/staff to use in their

research

• Not for disseminating data produced at MIT

(other Dataverses and repositories do that…)

• Deposit data that meets criteria

• Harvard Libraries have a similar collection: the

Numeric Data Services Dataverse

Authentication mechanisms

• Why restrict access?

• When Libraries purchase data for their collections,

licenses limit dissemination to university affiliates

• Historically: MIT IP range (including proxy server)

• Plan for 4.0: Shibboleth

• Shibboleth support still in development

• IP groups may also be available again in the future

Future developments

• Integration with Libraries digital content management

system

• Expanding beyond the social sciences to other subjects

• Involvement of other librarians

• Documenting workflow

• Considering centralizing some management

• Thank you!