Amélie Fiocca (Jul 18 2025 at 15:11): Amélie Fiocca (Jul 18 2025 at 15:11):What do you think about using this contact e-mail list here to offer to contribute to the inventory of existing training documents ? or would you prefer we post a message on the google group or zulip? (I'm just afraid that not all installations follow these channels).
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2025 at 15:12):I don't mind if you reach out to people directly.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 18 2025 at 15:41):@Sonia Barbosa and others who have given training webinars recently (@Katie Mika @Julian Gautier @Ceilyn Boyd @Gustavo Durand and @Leo Andreev from a quick look at DataverseTV :tv:), this new "training resources" topic came out of today's Documentation working group meeting.
I volunteered to let you know that the meeting was recorded and training resources was the first topic. If you have the time, please check it out! There are notes as well.
In short, there's a lot of interest in inventorying existing resources (doc) and generally collaborating on training material in the future.
Julian Gautier (Jul 18 2025 at 17:10):Thanks for the ping! I checked out the video and the notes doc. The folks at UNC have made videos about using Dataverse, too. I think they have a YouTube channel and I imagine they'll be pretty responsive if they're contacted.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 22 2025 at 18:59):@Ines Schmahl @Amélie Fiocca and everyone, I just added over 30 links to tutorial from DataverseTV to the doc. Enjoy! :tv: :popcorn:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 22 2025 at 19:11):This is the script I used: training.py
Julian Gautier (Jul 22 2025 at 19:13):@Amélie Fiocca, on that "Crowdsourced information about Dataverse installations" spreadsheet I added a note on the column header for the "check date" column that you added, so I and maybe others know what it's for. Phil guessed it's related to when you were looking for tutorials from each installation. Feel free to edit the note if I missed or misunderstood anything about how the column's being used
Amélie Fiocca (Jul 28 2025 at 14:29):Hi @Julian Gautier , thank you for the note. You're right, it's definitely related to the date of my research for tutorials :)
Amélie Fiocca (Jul 28 2025 at 14:48):Hi @Philip, I had a comment her : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SG2mgq-6lzAw_r0eXRZB6L-_ZcKNfi_1sLPHtcCuKI8/edit?tab=t.0
I could have created a spreadsheet, but I don't think I have the rights to this folder
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 28 2025 at 14:51):Hmm, you're a contributor to the parent folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iLUtHsRw4NYUQoKenpGF6oYb-s23plL6?usp=drive_link
You can't create any docs or spreadsheets in that folder? :thinking:
Amélie Fiocca (Jul 28 2025 at 14:54):Ah, that's strange, I'll try again later. I will also suggest a email template to send for the contribution of installations that the group can review.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 28 2025 at 14:54):Sounds perfect! Thanks!
Amélie Fiocca (Jul 29 2025 at 08:47):Here is the spreadsheet -> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SR6A68dXv4dVpCImR7Gke-ps25xvOsw1_pXwjDxGMXU/edit?gid=0#gid=0
And the email template to review : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1givY39bRVhrcAS6FTJ1PZ5fKzS31keA7TXy4CWo_VEM/edit?tab=t.0
What do you think about it ?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 29 2025 at 11:49):@Amélie Fiocca the spreadsheet looks good, thanks, but the links don't work
Amélie Fiocca (Jul 30 2025 at 07:49):I fixed it :)
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 30 2025 at 11:19):Looks great! Thanks! What should the permissions on the doc be? Currently it's restricted.
Amélie Fiocca (Jul 30 2025 at 13:11):Good question... I suppose we could open it (just this document) or ask to installation write us on this channel with the answer for each field but it will require more work to compile them. Do you agree with the proposed template for the email?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 30 2025 at 13:15):Can you please open it (the spreadsheet), for comment?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 30 2025 at 13:25):I commented on the email template with some thoughts.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 30 2025 at 13:26):We should probably decide how we want people to give us their links to training materials before we send it out.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 30 2025 at 13:27):For instance, we could make the spreadsheet publicly editable but that might be a bit chaotic. :sweat_smile:
Amélie Fiocca (Jul 30 2025 at 16:22):I think it's okay, I've set the permissions correctly to open comments publicly.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 30 2025 at 16:32):Great. That's what I do with the community news as I work on it. I leave it open for comments.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Aug 01 2025 at 15:25):Speaking of the community news, I just sent out the July edition and mentioned we'd like help compiling training resources.
We should still email the Google Group, of course. :smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 09 2025 at 20:53):Hmm, I just found this: https://docs.scholarsportal.info/view/Main/SP/Borealis/Borealis_Admin/Promotional_and_Training_Materials/
I assume @Amber Leahey @Bikram and others at Borealis know about it. :smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 23 2025 at 18:13):New videos from @Courtney Mumma! See #community > more new videos from TDL
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 12 2025 at 16:37):A colleague of @Philipp Conzett is asking about datasets for teaching and learning: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/-pEkvJMsoog/m/2IEXnWq9BAAJ
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 12 2025 at 16:37):seems related
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Dec 22 2025 at 20:16):I just replied: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/-pEkvJMsoog/m/YOiktWmUAQAJ
Notification Bot (Jan 16 2026 at 19:54):A message was moved here from #docs > doc group meeting by Philip Durbin 🚀.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 16 2026 at 19:56):@Amélie Fiocca I moved your message to this topic. Sure! Sounds good!
Amélie Fiocca (Mar 27 2026 at 16:14):Hi everyone,
To move forward with the topic of training resources, I propose creating a form for installations using the Grist tool.
This will allow me to easily create lists linked to repositories and facilitate the formatting of results.
We could discuss the repositories:
An interesting objective would be to have a web page that lists training courses with the ability to search by type, target audience, level, and also by language!
Here are some screenshots of my tests with the Grist tool.
Of course, I can share them publicly in read-only or edit mode. We can also migrate the results.
Amélie Fiocca (Mar 27 2026 at 16:15):
Amélie Fiocca (Mar 27 2026 at 16:15):
Amélie Fiocca (Mar 27 2026 at 16:16):What do you think?
Amélie Fiocca (Mar 27 2026 at 16:16):We can discuss it next time :)
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 27 2026 at 16:20):I've never heard of Grist, but I like their tagline "Spreadsheet Software to End Data Chaos" -- https://www.getgrist.com :smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 27 2026 at 16:20):It's even open source, apparently: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core :eyes:
Amélie Fiocca (Mar 27 2026 at 16:24):It's a really great tool.
It's part of a digital suite available to government employees in France. I've started using it to manage quite a few things, and it's really very practical. You can do very simple things quickly, but it's also possible to code formulas in Python to do very complex tasks.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 27 2026 at 16:35):It reminds me a bit of Airtable.
Amélie Fiocca (Apr 10 2026 at 09:49):a link to test : https://grist.numerique.gouv.fr/o/docs/wQqzFFsD11Zu/DATAVERSE-DOC?utm_id=share-doc
Amélie Fiocca (Apr 10 2026 at 10:02):The idea would be to offer the survey or one option to send a table with the same format for easy integration (in case of multiple resources). I haven't tried it yet, but maybe it's possible to allow users to fill in several resource fields within the same form.
Notification Bot (Apr 28 2026 at 11:39):A message was moved here from #docs > docs wg at DCM 2026 in Barcelona by Philip Durbin 🚀.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:41):@Amélie Fiocca I hope you don't mind that I moved your message here.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:41):Overall, the form looks great! Some notes:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:42):typo: ressources should be resources
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:43):I see mm/dd/yy and as and American I'm cool with this but I hope others see whatever is most comfortable for them!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:43):"Dataverse installation" is required but what if theirs isn't on the list? :thinking:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:44):Maybe "Contact email" instead of just "Contact"? :thinking:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:45):Yes, that's a lot of languages. :smile: I guess it's fine 
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:46):I like the link at the bottom to see the full list of training resources.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 11:46):Good job! 
Amélie Fiocca (Apr 28 2026 at 12:45):Thanks , I made the corrections :)
For date, I guess that will be okay because the choice is made with the calendar ?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 13:20):sure, sounds fine :smile:
Dieuwertje Bloemen (Apr 28 2026 at 15:49):Amélie Fiocca said:
Here's the form, what do you think?
It includes all the languages of the ISO standard to be as inclusive as possible! :sweat_smile: but maybe it's too much...
GristformThen I could generate a QR code like this, for example?
I can just add the qr code in the design right now because you gave the link already, thanks! I'll see how can incorporate it.
The form looks really good to me (not too long ;) ). And I think the date format might be browser decided, because I'm getting dd/mm/yyyy
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 28 2026 at 16:05):Oh, good. I was wondering if dd/mm vs mm/dd was decided by the browser. :smile:
Amélie Fiocca (Apr 28 2026 at 16:08):Thanks, Dieuwertje :) Can you generate a new QR code to integrate it? cause I don't know if this one will work . It was just an example and I didn't save it.
Amélie Fiocca (Apr 28 2026 at 16:12):Or else, we can try to create another one using this tool: https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/fr/
Dieuwertje Bloemen (Apr 28 2026 at 16:20):yeah, I can generate a QR code with some color options. I'll also add it as a shorturl at the bottom to ensure everyone can access it if the QR isn't working for some.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (May 15 2026 at 09:06):@Amélie Fiocca @Dieuwertje Bloemen @Vaida Plankytė 🎨 @Dimitri Szabo good news! @Parth karalkar is willing to prototype a website for us based on the training resources spreadsheet. Do you have any particular requirements or ideas for the website?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (May 26 2026 at 02:24):@Amélie Fiocca @Dieuwertje Bloemen @Vaida Plankytė 🎨 @Dimitri Szabo actually, maybe I should back up a bit. Do we want a website for training resources? What do you think?
Amélie Fiocca (May 26 2026 at 08:05):Hi ;) I think it's very good idea as a catalogue where it is possible to search by criteria.
I'm thinking of something very simple and legible (and accessible too). The search could lead to metadata pointing to the resource, or alternatively, a dedicated collection in the Harvard dataverse to expose resources that have not yet been deposited.
Amélie Fiocca (May 26 2026 at 08:55):Initial idea for the interface
Last updated: May 30 2026 at 06:18 UTC
