Introduction

Welcome! Dataverse is an open source project that loves contributors!

Intended Audience

This guide is intended primarily for developers who want to work on the main Dataverse code base at https://github.com/CeON/dataverse but see Related Projects section for other code you can work on!

To get started, make sure you understand the branching strategy described in the Version Control section and how to make a pull request. Testing is expected. Opinions about Coding Style are welcome!

Core Technologies

Dataverse is a Java EE application that is compiled into a war file and deployed to an application server (Glassfish) which is configured to work with a relational database (PostgreSQL) and a search engine (Solr).

We make use of a variety of Java EE technologies such as JPA, JAX-RS, JMS, and JSF. The front end is built using PrimeFaces and Bootstrap.

Issue Tracker

We use GitHub Issues as our issue tracker: https://github.com/CeON/dataverse/projects/1

Related Guides

If you are a developer who wants to make use of Dataverse APIs, please see the API Guide. If you have front-end UI questions, please see the Style Guide.

If you are a sysadmin who likes to code, you may be interested in hacking on installation scripts mentioned in the Installation Guide. We validate the installation scripts with Tools such as Vagrant and Docker (see the Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift section).

Related Projects

As a developer, you also may be interested in these projects related to Dataverse:

• External Tools - add additional features to Dataverse: See the External Tools section of the Installation Guide.

• Dataverse API client libraries - use Dataverse APIs from various languages: Client Libraries

• Miniverse - expose metrics from a Dataverse database: https://github.com/IQSS/miniverse

• Configuration management scripts - Ansible, Puppet, etc.: See “Advanced Installation” in the Preparation section of the Installation Guide.

• Universal Numerical Fingerprint (UNF) (Java) - a Universal Numerical Fingerprint: https://github.com/IQSS/UNF

• GeoConnect (Python) - create a map by uploading files to Dataverse: https://github.com/IQSS/geoconnect

• DataTags (Java and Scala) - tag datasets with privacy levels: https://github.com/IQSS/DataTags

• TwoRavens (Javascript) - a d3.js interface for exploring data and running Zelig models: https://github.com/IQSS/TwoRavens

• Zelig (R) - run statistical models on files uploaded to Dataverse: https://github.com/IQSS/Zelig

• Matrix - a visualization showing the connectedness and collaboration between authors and their affiliations.

• Third party apps - make use of Dataverse APIs: Apps

• chat.dataverse.org - chat interface for Dataverse users and developers: https://github.com/IQSS/chat.dataverse.org

• [Your project here] :)

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