thejmfc (Jul 18 2023 at 11:01): thejmfc (Jul 18 2023 at 11:01):Hi everyone.
I've been working with our Repository users in defining a set of metadata standards that they need represented in Dataverse. Before I dive in and start trying to create new metadata blocks left and right. Is there anywhere I can browse for existing metadata blocks?
Don Sizemore (Jul 18 2023 at 11:19):thejmfc said:
Hi everyone.
I've been working with our Repository users in defining a set of metadata standards that they need represented in Dataverse. Before I dive in and start trying to create new metadata blocks left and right. Is there anywhere I can browse for existing metadata blocks?
The best place I know to look is https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/tree/develop/scripts/api/data/metadatablocks but I would welcome a community metadata block repository.
thejmfc (Jul 18 2023 at 11:22):Ok. I had already checked the github repository.
I'll start by contributing with any metadata block that I create to that new 'communitary metadata block repository'.
Don Sizemore (Jul 18 2023 at 11:28):@thejmfc you may also want to join the community metadata working group, if you're interested? Jim Myers is heading it up; I can dig up their meeting schedule if you like.
thejmfc (Jul 18 2023 at 11:29):Sure. I'll DM you my email address.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2023 at 12:00):There has been talk of putting TSVs for metadata blocks in a dedicated repository. Harvard Dataverse started putting theirs here: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse.harvard.edu/tree/master/metadatablocks
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2023 at 12:00):You can also get the block programatically from an installation. If you go to https://demo.dataverse.org/api/metadatablocks for example you can see the blocks that are installed.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2023 at 12:00):We could iterated through all the installationsn in https://iqss.github.io/dataverse-installations/data/data.json and see what metadata blocks they have installed. Could be interesting. Could be a metric, even.
Don Sizemore (Jul 18 2023 at 12:08):@thejmfc Julian just posted this in Dataverse IRC https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DCDKZQ
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2023 at 12:54):And there's code: https://github.com/jggautier/dataverse-scripts/blob/main/other_scripts/get_dataset_metadata_of_all_installations.py
thejmfc (Jul 18 2023 at 13:00):Fantastic :) You guys sure know how to get me busy.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2023 at 13:01):I mentioned this in the other chat but I'd suggest looking at this file: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=6570377&version=12.0
Don Sizemore (Jul 18 2023 at 14:19):Philip Durbin said:
We could iterated through all the installationsn in https://iqss.github.io/dataverse-installations/data/data.json and see what metadata blocks they have installed. Could be interesting. Could be a metric, even.
want me to open an issue in the metrics repo? I carpet bombed a spate of those on Friday.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2023 at 14:21):I'd let @thejmfc open it if he thinks it would be useful. @thejmfc the metrics we're talking about are here: https://dataverse.org/metrics
thejmfc (Jul 18 2023 at 14:30):Philip Durbin disse:
I'd let thejmfc open it if he thinks it would be useful. thejmfc the metrics we're talking about are here: https://dataverse.org/metrics
What would you have me do Phil?
I'm familiared with the Make Data Count plugin. I wrote some code a few years back do get more metrics than those collected.
Never got it deployed though :D
(it's here, if you feel like taking a peek)
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2023 at 14:35):Heh. Don't worry about it @thejmfc . @Don Sizemore and I are just talking about if we should create an issue at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-metrics/issues to start collecting the names of metadata blocks used by Dataverse installations.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2023 at 14:36):In that repo we already have the logic to loop through all the installations.
Notification Bot (Sep 07 2023 at 10:44):Philip Durbin has marked this topic as resolved.
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