Modularity and Interoperability in Generalist Data Repositories

The development of Dataverse, a generalist data repository, began in 2006 and is a successful open source project with a large community of users and developers with more than 90 installations in 34 countries around the world. The product and the technology behind Dataverse continue to evolve throughout the years: a major re-architecture effort is underway, moving to a single page, API-first, application, with separate front- and back-ends with the aim of expanding the modularity and interoperability of the software, as well empowering the community to produce and manage their own extensions. We will review a series of capabilities that are either new or expanded thanks to this re architecture effort: Data archiving of geotagged and geographical data, big data, software, analyses workflows and even containers; extensive metadata support: multiple permanent identifiers, external controlled vocabularies, indigenous data support, and increased metadata standards support for harvesting, and exporting of data citation; interoperability support working with other open data repositories ( Zenodo, Dryad, and Figshare, among others); support of different login types; Github and Dropbox integration; and extensive input/output file support.