User Guide

Contents:

• Account Creation + Management
  • Account Information
    • Account Log In Options
    • Create Account
    • Edit Account
    • Convert Account
    • Reset Account Password
  • Remote Authentication
    • Institutional Log In
      • Create a Dataverse account using Institutional Log In
      • Convert your Dataverse account to use your Institutional Log In
      • Convert your Dataverse account away from your Institutional Log In
    • ORCID Log In
      • Create a Dataverse account using ORCID
      • Convert your Dataverse account to use ORCID for log in
      • Convert your Dataverse account away from ORCID for log in
    • GitHub and Google Log In
  • My Data
  • Notifications
  • API Token
• Finding and Using Data
  • Finding Data
    • Basic Search
      • Sorting and Viewing Search Results
    • Advanced Search
    • Browsing Dataverse
    • Saved Search
  • Using Data
    • View Dataverses + Datasets
    • View Files
    • Cite Data
    • Download Files
      • Tabular Data
      • Downloading via URL
• Dataverse Management
  • Create a Dataverse (Within the “Root” Dataverse)
  • Edit Dataverse
  • General Information
  • Theme
  • Widgets
    • Dataverse Search Box Widget
    • Dataverse Listing Widget
  • Roles & Permissions
    • Setting Access Configurations
    • Assigning Roles to Users and Groups
  • Dataset Templates
  • Dataset Guestbooks
  • Featured Dataverses
  • Dataset Linking
  • Dataverse Linking
  • Publish Your Dataverse
• Dataset + File Management
  • Supported Metadata
    • Supported Metadata Export Formats
  • Adding a New Dataset
  • File Upload
    • HTTP Upload
  • File Handling
    • Tabular Data Files
    • Astronomy (FITS)
    • Compressed Files
    • Other File Types
  • Edit Files
    • Edit File Metadata
    • File Tags
  • Replace Files
  • Guestbook
  • Roles & Permissions
    • Dataset-Level
    • File-Level
  • Data Provenance
  • Thumbnails + Widgets
    • Thumbnails
    • Widgets
      • Dataset Widget
      • Dataset Citation Widget
  • Publish Dataset
  • Submit for Review
  • Private URL to Review Unpublished Dataset
  • Dataset Versions
    • Version Details
  • Dataset Deaccession
• Tabular Data File Ingest
  • Supported File Formats
  • Tabular Data, Representation, Storage and Ingest
    • What Happens During this “Ingest”?
    • Tabular Data and Metadata
      • Data vs. Metadata
      • Tabular Metadata in Dataverse
  • SPSS
    • Supported Versions
    • Limitations
    • Support for Language Encodings in SPSS
  • Stata
  • R Data Format
    • Overview
    • Data Formatting Requirements
    • Data Types, compared to other supported formats (Stat, SPSS)
      • Integers, Doubles, Character strings
      • R Factors
      • Boolean values
      • Limitations of R, as compared to SPSS and STATA
    • Time values in R
  • Excel
    • Supported Formats
    • Limitations
    • Ingest Errors
    • Example Data
  • CSV/TSV
    • Ingest of Comma-Separated Values and Tab-Separated Values files as tabular data.
    • Main formatting requirements
    • Limitations
    • Recognized data types and formatting
• Appendix
  • Metadata References