The Odum Institute provides research infrastructure to support the social sciences at UNC. It houses the Lou Harris Data Center and partners on projects to promote open data sharing and reproducible science using the Dataverse platform. Dataverse is an open-source platform developed at Harvard to archive and share research data, assign DOIs, and build a community around data standards and best practices. The Odum Institute is working to improve data reuse by integrating tools like Encapsulator and Code Ocean with Dataverse repositories to facilitate replication.

1. SciELO International Conference 2018
Jonathan Crabtree
Director of Cyberinfrastructure
Odum Institute

2. Founded in 1924, the Odum Institute provides core research infrastructure for the social
sciences to support the research, teaching, and service mission of UNC. We define social
science broadly to include the health sciences, and we serve faculty and students from every
corner of UNC’s campus.
Home of the Lou Harris Data Center and the UNC Dataverse

3. An ongoing 12 year collaboration around repository solutions and tools
Partnering on projects to promote data sharing and publication
Leading efforts to promote Open and Reproducible Science

4. An open-source platform to share and archive data
Developed at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science since 2006
Gives credit and control to data authors and producers
Builds a community to define standards and best practices and foster new
research in data sharing and research reproducibility
Has brought data publishing into the hands of data authors

5. ๏ Data Citation with global persistent IDs:
๏ generate DOI automatically
attribution to data authors and repository
registration to DataCite
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๏ Rich Metadata:
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domain-specific descriptive metadata
variable and file metadata (extracted automatically)
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๏ Access and usage controls:
๏ open data as default, with CC0 waiver
custom terms of use and licenses, when needed
data can be restricted, but citation & metadata always publicly accessible
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๏ APIs and standards:
๏ SWORD, OAI-PMH, native API to search and get data and metadata Dublin Core and DDI
metadata standards
PROV ontology standard to capture provenance of a dataset (coming soon)
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7. Has grown to 33 installations around the world
Thousands of scientific studies archived
Across many disciplines
Supporting many metadata standards

9. The Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) is dedicated to
providing international organization to existing Dataverse community
efforts, and will provide a collaborative venue for institutions to leverage
economies of scale in support of Dataverse repositories around the world.
http://DataverseCommunity.Global

10. But, are these shared data reusable?
For this, we need well-documented, well-organized data and code as well as
tools to facilitate the replication and reuse

11. More than 50% of the top
50 journals in
anthropology, economics,
psychology, and
political sciences have
data policies that either
encourage or require to
share the data
associated with the
article.
Crosas, Gautier, Karcher, Kirilova, Otalora, Schwartz, 2018. Data Policies of highly-ranked social science journals

12. With funding from the Sloan Foundation, our organizations plan to address data reuse and reproducibility by:
– Improving curation through educational materials, friendly user-interface, and services
– Integrating replication tools with Dataverse repositories:
• Encapsulator to pack your data and code in a self-contained, documented capsule (IQSS Harvard)
• Code Ocean to easily run scientific code online (IQSS Harvard)
• CoRe2 to connect systems in order to streamline the verification workflow (ODUM Institute)

13. The Confirmable
Reproducible
Research (CoRe2)
Environment
Linking Tools to Promote
Computational Reproducibility
Support for this research was provided by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2018-11121). The
views expressed here do not necessarily reflect
the views of the Foundation.

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21. Given current constraints and the need for iterative review, data curation and
successful verification of a replication package for a single manuscript requires
six hours of labor on average.
COMPUTATION COORDINATION ADMINISTRATION

22. COMPUTATION COORDINATION ADMINISTRATION
binder
encapsulator

23. Promote and support computational reproducibility by
integrating and streamlining manuscript publication and
data curation + verification workflows

24. ● Facilitate access to and adoption of tools and platforms to support
scientific reproducibility
● Coordinate manuscript submission and data curation + verification
workflow processes across key stakeholders
● Promote the adoption of standards and best practices for data access and
transparency as part of normative research practice.

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26. More Information at:
http://dataverse.org
http://dataversecommunity.global
http://www.odum.unc.edu

27. Merce Crosas at IQSS
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mercecrosas/home
Odum Co-PI Thu-Mai Christian and Visual Arts Specialist Kasha Ely