Philip Durbin π (Aug 07 2024 at 20:17): Philip Durbin π (Aug 07 2024 at 20:17):Currently, the list of Dataverse features can be found at https://dataverse.org/software-features
We aren't great about keeping it up-to-date.
What if we move this list into the guides? :thinking:
Good idea? Bad idea? What do you think?
Dimitri Szabo (Aug 08 2024 at 14:37):Good idea for me, it would be easier to update it in the PR if in the guides
Philip Durbin π (Aug 08 2024 at 14:46):Ok, great, but where in the guides?
Dieuwertje Bloemen (Aug 12 2024 at 14:49):Maybe we need to start listing items that are missing? Then when we have an overview, we can figure out where to put each seperately or if there's perhaps a need to bundle for an "intro/general/software info/about" section or something of the sort.
Philip Durbin π (Aug 12 2024 at 14:53):Sure, sound good. I just created a tab called "add missing features" to the spreadsheet we've been using: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIFGAfDfZAboFa3_ShRfgoT6xSDpKohDH2_iCyO5MtA/edit?usp=sharing
Philip Durbin π (Aug 12 2024 at 14:53):Please request access and add away!
Sonia Barbosa (Aug 12 2024 at 16:34):@Philip Durbin did you let Dwayne and Emily know you are working on this here? Given they have to get this list together for the CHAT AI Steno requested? Maybe they should help here?
Philip Durbin π (Aug 12 2024 at 17:39):@Sonia Barbosa I did talk to @Dwayne Liburd the other day about the current list of features and he introduced me to Carla who I think is working on this.
Philip Durbin π (Aug 12 2024 at 17:41):This "list of features" thread in #docs is just something I've wondered about for a long time.
We moved https://dataverse.org/integrations into the guides and it has worked quite well for keeping it up to date.
Philip Durbin π (Nov 21 2025 at 14:42):At our monthly meeting on Wednesday I asked about this again and go the go ahead. So I'll create an issue about moving the list of features into the guides.
Philip Durbin π (Nov 22 2025 at 15:35):I created the issue about moving the list of features to the guides: #11998
Philip Durbin π (Nov 22 2025 at 15:37):I just made a pull request at #12000 to do the very minimum, which is to copy the list over, as is.
You can preview it here: https://dataverse-guide--12000.org.readthedocs.build/en/12000/admin/features.html
Philip Durbin π (Nov 22 2025 at 15:37):@Dieuwertje Bloemen @Vaida PlankytΔ π¨ I put it under the Admin Guide, like we talked about.
Philip Durbin π (Nov 24 2025 at 18:44):Great comment by @Julian Gautier about work he and @Dwayne Liburd did a while back to categorize the features, which lives on in our brochure for Harvard Dataverse: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/11998#issuecomment-3571555917
Julian Gautier (Nov 24 2025 at 19:15):Thanks. I'd say this is work folks at IQSS did, which informed how features were described and organized on that brochure
Philip Durbin π (Nov 24 2025 at 19:16):Gotcha. Credit where credit is due!
Philip Durbin π (Nov 24 2025 at 19:17):We're targeting an admin audience, the Admin Guide. What's the audience for the brochure?
Julian Gautier (Nov 24 2025 at 19:37):I'd say the audience is for people wanting to use Harvard Dataverse for publishing and finding data. @Sonia Barbosa takes the brochure to conferences and meetings where those types of folks might be interested
Philip Durbin π (Nov 24 2025 at 19:37):Ok, sounds like authors and downloaders, mostly. Thanks.
Julian Gautier (Nov 24 2025 at 19:38):Yeah and ppl managing collections, so like curators, and other data support folks
Philip Durbin π (Nov 24 2025 at 19:39):Got it. Thanks.
Philip Durbin π (Nov 24 2025 at 19:40):In the Admin Guide we also want to cover people who care about lower level stuff like OIDC for auth.
Philip Durbin π (Dec 11 2025 at 16:41):I just presented the categorized list of features (#12011) to @Ceilyn Boyd @Sonia Barbosa and @Dwayne Liburd and they all like where we're going.
Dwayne already has a mockup of a future dataverse.org homepage that includes a few cards showing top features. The plan is to link from there to the list of features in the guides we're working on.
And from the list of features in the guides, we will link back to https://dataverse.org/software-features which will have a nicer looking summary of features instead of the current brain dump.
This new issue is about related design work: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-pm/issues/498
Philip Durbin π (Dec 22 2025 at 17:09):I went ahead and merged the categorized list of features (#12011) into the main pull request (#12000). I showed it at tech hours last week and there were no objections.
Philip Durbin π (Jan 07 2026 at 18:59):I just created a doc where we can jot down our ideas of features that should be added to the new features list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RIvsUntk9vbCofpic-ld-yrfko3sUvH8uH4eqqfYco/edit?usp=sharing
Please feel free to edit!
Philip Durbin π (Feb 03 2026 at 15:12):Hmm, we should probably add more geospatial features to the list.
Vaida PlankytΔ π¨ (Feb 05 2026 at 12:43):@Philip Durbin π are you referring to the Borealis Geospatial work? not to hog the thread, but i was curious how that aligns with the DataCite geolocation schema, and whether this'll become the agreed upon implementation for a geospatial field :smile:
Philip Durbin π (Feb 05 2026 at 14:26):Yes! In @Amber Leahey's talk (#geospatial > Expanded geospatial metadata block - Feb 3 Community Call) she mentioned that upcoming work as well as existing features such as the geospatial metadata block itself and special handling of some geospatial files (GeoJSON, GeoTIFF, Shapefile, NetCDF): https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.9/user/dataset-management.html#geojson (and below).
Vaida PlankytΔ π¨ (Feb 05 2026 at 16:48):ooh, thank you for those links! :smile:
Philip Durbin π (Feb 13 2026 at 16:07):@Dieuwertje Bloemen and I just made a lot of progress! Here's the commit and the preview: https://dataverse-guide--12000.org.readthedocs.build/en/12000/admin/features.html
Still very much a work in progress, but we're getting there. Again, this is the spreadsheet we're editing, the "Next/2026" tab: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIFGAfDfZAboFa3_ShRfgoT6xSDpKohDH2_iCyO5MtA/edit?gid=729532473#gid=729532473
Then we run this to update the page:
curl -L "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIFGAfDfZAboFa3_ShRfgoT6xSDpKohDH2_iCyO5MtA/export?gid=729532473&format=tsv" | python3 ../../scripts/issues/11998/tsv2md.py > source/admin/features.md
Oliver Bertuch (Feb 13 2026 at 16:26):Don't look now, but may be a nice layout option: https://sphinx-design.readthedocs.io/en/furo-theme/grids.html
Philip Durbin π (Feb 13 2026 at 16:28):Huh, looks nice, but we'd have to switch the theme for the whole site, right?
Oliver Bertuch (Feb 13 2026 at 16:44):I'd say let's try without changing the theme. It's an extension.
Philip Durbin π (Feb 13 2026 at 16:48):Could you maybe make a new branch off of https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/tree/11998-features-in-guides and show us what you have in mind?
Philip Durbin π (Feb 13 2026 at 19:37):I just added a few more features and descriptions in https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/12000/changes/6632334b3278b88495f889140a9461f750b45457
Here's the preview: https://dataverse-guide--12000.org.readthedocs.build/en/12000/admin/features.html
Vaida PlankytΔ π¨ (Feb 16 2026 at 14:34):looks great!
Philip Durbin π (Mar 27 2026 at 16:16):@Dieuwertje Bloemen @AmΓ©lie Fiocca great progress today! I just pushed our changes: https://dataverse-guide--12000.org.readthedocs.build/en/12000/admin/features.html
Philip Durbin π (Mar 27 2026 at 16:16):As a reminder for next time, we were working on the "integrations" category.
Philip Durbin π (Mar 27 2026 at 16:18):For anyone else looking at the list, yes we know we added an empty "highlights" section at the top and some "misc" stuff at the bottom. We'll continue to iterate next time. All are welcome! See #docs > doc group meeting
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