Presentations

Dataverse, Cloud Dataverse, and DataTags Tuesday, February 7, 2017:

Talk given at Two Sigma:
The Dataverse project, developed at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science since 2006, is a widely used software platform to share and archive data for research. There are currently more than 20 Dataverse repository installations worldwide, with the Harvard Dataverse repository alone hosting more than 60,000 datasets. Dataverse provides incentives to researchers to share their data, giving them credit through data citation and control over terms of use and access. In this talk, I'll discuss the Dataverse project, as well as related projects such as...

FAIR Data Management and FAIR Data Sharing, at Harvard Univeristy, Friday, February 3, 2017:

fair-datasharing-archeologysymposium.pdf

Presentation at the Critical Perspective on the Practice of Digital Archeology symposium: http://archaeology.harvard.edu/critical-perspectives-practice-digital-archaeology

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The Data Lifecycle Tuesday, January 17, 2017:

datafest-datalifecycle.pdf

Opening talk for the Harvard DataFest 2017: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/datafest2017

The Data Lifecycle (...

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Cloud Dataverse - A Faster Way to Process Data in the Cloud, at OpenStack Summit, Barcelona, Wednesday, October 26, 2016:

clouddvvbrownbagopenstacksummit.pdf

A presententation at the OpenStack Summit by Piyanai Saowarattitada, Mercè Crosas, and Orran Krieger. https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/summit-schedule/events/16875/cloud-dataverse-a-faster-way-to-process-data-in-the-cloud

Abstract: Cloud Dataverse is a new service for accessing and processing public data sets in an OpenStack Cloud. It is based on Dataverse, a popular framework for sharing, preserving, and analyzing research data. Cloud Dataverse extends Dataverse to replicate datasets from per-institution repositories to a cloud-based...

Making Data Accessible , at Harvard SEAS, CS Colloquium, Thursday, October 20, 2016:

seas-cscolloquium-mercecrosas.pdf

Since modern science began, data have been a critical part of the scientific enterprise, not only for conducting science but also for communicating and validating scientific results. From the beginning, it was clear that for the scientific community to continually verify scientific results, the underlying data had to be made accessible. But that has not been, and is still not, always the case. In recent years however, public data repositories have grown significantly, making many research data sets easily accessible to others. The ...

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Research and Academic Software Projects developed at IQSS , at Harvard University, Lamont Library, Monday, October 3, 2016:

abcd-iqsssoftwareprojects-mercecrosas.pdf

Presentation for Harvard's ABCD Technology in Education group:

The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) is a unique entity at Harvard - it combines research, software development, and specialized services to provide innovative solutions to research and scholarship problems at Harvard and beyond. I will talk about the software projects that IQSS is currently working on (Dataverse, Zelig, Consilience, and OpenScholar), including the research and development processes, the benefits provided to the Harvard community, and the impacts on research and scholarship...

The DataTags System: Sharing Sensitive Data with Confidence, at RDA 8th Plenary, Denver, Colorado, Friday, September 16, 2016:

datatags-rda8plenary-steps.pdf

This talk was part of a session at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 8th Plenary on Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets, during International Data Week 2016:
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-8th-plenary-joint-meeting-ig-domain-repositories-wg-rdaniso-privacy-implications-research-data

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Open Source Tools Facilitating Sharing/Protecting Privacy: Dataverse and DataTags, at NFAIS Webinar, Monday, June 20, 2016:

dataverse-datatags-mercecrosas.pdf

Presentation for the NFAIS Webinar series: Open Data Fostering Open Science: Meeting Researchers' Needs

http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=508850&orgId=nfais

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The Data Publishing Landscape, at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Tuesday, June 7, 2016:

datapublishinglandscape.pdf

Introduction for the Connecting Journals to Data Repositories Workshop, at Harvard Medical School:

http://www.software4data.com/#!journal-repository-workshop/dbfm9

Mercè Crosas

Harvard University

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