Project: New DASH and Harvard Dataverse Integration

[cmbz]

Overview

• As part of the Harvard Connect Project (formerly Harvard Data Commons) developed an integration with the new Digital Access to Scholarly at Harvard (DASH) document repository.
• Since that time, DASH has been upgraded to the latest version of DSpace.
• This project aims to update the Harvard Dataverse-DASH connector to support the latest DSpace version.

Related Issues

• https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-HDV-Curation/issues/601

[qqmyers]

FWIW: We do have #10490 that updates Dataverse to be compliant with the final COAR/LDN spec. If that's what made it into the latest DSpace, we may need to merge that. If DSpace only integrated the earlier code, Dataverse may already be ready/just configuration at Harvard would be needed.

[cmbz]

@siacus please see: #310 (comment)

[qqmyers]

With additional COAR support in fall 2025, Dataverse has been updated to support the final COAR Notify Relationship Announcement specification and interoperability has been tested with Harvard's DASH testing machine and one at the Texas Digital Library. The new code also supports sending the relationType between the dataset and the "Related Publication" in Dataverse (relationType was added to Dataverse after the initial COAR work). PRs #10490 and #11983 cover the new work.

For production integration, after the Dataverse 6.9 release and the update of Harvard DASH, Harvard Dataverse will need to follow the Dataverse Guides instructions to configure sending and receiving COAR Notify Relationship Announcement messages. (Guides will be updated with v6.9 - instructions as of this comment are out-of-date.)