The General Information page is how you edit the information you filled in while creating your Dataverse collection. If you need to change or add a contact email address, this is the place to do it. Additionally, you can update the metadata elements used for datasets within the Dataverse collection, change which metadata fields are hidden, required, or optional, and update the facets you would like displayed for browsing the Dataverse collection. If you plan on using templates, you need to select the metadata fields on the General Information page.
Tip: The metadata fields you select as required will appear on the Create Dataset form when someone goes to add a dataset to the Dataverse collection
The Theme features provides you with a way to customize the look of your Dataverse collection. You can:
Inherit the theme from the parent Dataverse collection. This option is helpful if you’d like consistency across several Dataverse collections that all share the same parent.
Add or update a logo image, which will appear at the top of your Dataverse collection.
Add or update a footer image, which will appear at at the bottom of your Dataverse collection.
Change the colors of the background, links, and text within the header of your Dataverse collection.
Add or update the tagline for your Dataverse collection, which can provide more information about your organization, journal, institution, etc.
Add a URL for a website that will be accessed when visitors click the tagline text.
Supported image types for logo images and footer images are JPEG, TIFF, or PNG and should be no larger than 500 KB. The maximum display size for an image file in a Dataverse collection’s theme is 940 pixels wide by 120 pixels high.
The Widgets feature provides you with code for you to put on your personal website to have your Dataverse collection displayed there. There are two types of Widgets for a Dataverse collection, a Dataverse collection Search Box widget and a Dataverse collection Listing widget. Once a Dataverse collection has been published, from the Widgets tab on the Dataverse collection’s Theme + Widgets page, it is possible to copy the code snippets for the widget(s) you would like to add to your website. If you need to adjust the height of the widget on your website, you may do so by editing the heightPx=500 parameter in the code snippet.
The Dataverse Collection Search Box Widget will add a search box to your website that is linked to your Dataverse collection. Users are directed to your Dataverse collection in a new browser window, to display the results for search terms entered in the input field.
The Dataverse Collection Listing Widget provides a listing of all your Dataverse collections and datasets for users to browse, sort, filter and search. When someone clicks on a Dataverse collection or dataset in the widget, it displays the content in the widget on your website. They can download data files directly from the datasets within the widget. If a file is restricted, they will be directed to your Dataverse installation to log in, instead of logging in through the widget on your website.
Log in to your OpenScholar website
Either build a new page or navigate to the page you would like to use to show the Dataverse collection widgets.
Click on the Settings Cog and select Layout
At the top right, select Add New Widget and under Misc. you will see the Dataverse Collection Search Box and the Dataverse Collection Listing Widgets. Click on the widget you would like to add, fill out the form, and then drag it to where you would like it to display in the page.
Dataverse installation user accounts can be granted roles that define which actions they are allowed to take on specific Dataverse collections, datasets, and/or files. Each role comes with a set of permissions, which define the specific actions that users may take.
Roles and permissions may also be granted to groups. Groups can be defined as a collection of Dataverse installation user accounts, a collection of IP addresses (e.g. all users of a library’s computers), or a collection of all users who log in using a particular institutional login (e.g. everyone who logs in with a particular university’s account credentials).
Admins of a Dataverse collection can assign roles and permissions to the users of that Dataverse collection. If you are an admin on a Dataverse collection, then you will find the link to the Permissions page under the Edit dropdown on the Dataverse collection page.