QDR TAB Monthly Report for September 2020

Each month we publish a short update of the technical team's ongoing and planned work. Where possible we link to documentation where you can find more details about each activity. If you have any questions feel free to send an email or ask a question in the issues of this repository.

Work performed

• Prepared update of QDR to Dataverse 5 (currently testing on Dev and Stage)
• Finalized metrics dashboard & API for QDR (in production; currently private)
  • https://github.com/QualitativeDataRepository/dataverse/issues/46
• Allow replacement of files in draft while maintaining metadata (currently testing on QDR, various PRs at IQSS)
  • https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/7068
  • https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/7149
  • https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/7250
• Allow DOI reservation for files (currently testing on QDR; preparing for IQSS)
  • https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/7068
• Updating registration to allow for email/newsletter opt-in (Drupal; currently testing)

Work planned

• Anonymization of datasets for peer review
  • https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/1724
• Automated checking/reporting of usage of unpublished DOIs/URLs
  • https://github.com/QualitativeDataRepository/dataverse/issues/50
• Accessibility improvements/checks
  • https://github.com/QualitativeDataRepository/dataverse/issues/54
• More understandable site/data search (Drupal)