Harvard Dataverse (concept)

A free research-data repository operated by Harvard University on the open-source Dataverse software platform, accepting datasets from researchers worldwide, minting DataCite DOIs, and serving as the flagship instance of the global Dataverse network.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Harvard Dataverse (dataverse.harvard.edu) was launched in 2007 and runs on the Dataverse software developed at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. The software is open-source and is deployed at dozens of institutions globally as institutional or national data repositories (DataverseNL, Demo Dataverse instances, etc.). Harvard Dataverse alone hosts hundreds of thousands of datasets and has CoreTrustSeal certification. Its data-replication-package model is widely used in quantitative social science.

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JATS XML <role> element

xml

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Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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  "sameAs": [
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  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

Harvard Dataverse (concept)

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