Customizable dataverse names

[djbrooke]

When a new repository is created (whether is the root repository/Dataverse installation or a sub-repository formerly called sub-dataverse) the user/admin can enter any name for the repository. For example, the root repository in the Harvard installation will still be called "Harvard Dataverse". However, the help text should encourage to provide a repository name that identifies well that repository and doesn't necessarily add "Dataverse" as part of the name. For example, the "Murray Research Archive" doesn't need Dataverse at the end, or "Merce Crosas Datasets" or "Merce Crosas Lab Data".

[djbrooke]

We attempted to estimate this on 2/1 but were unable to do so. We need to revisit this to determine:

• What the names would change to (would we just remove Dataverse?)
• How we would message this to users

[djbrooke]

• Dataverse would be populated, but editable

[philippconzett]

As someone mentioned earlier on Dataverse Google Group, for multi-institutional installations it is quite essential to be able to display the sub-dataverse name in the dataset reference. We are now running a multi-institutional test installation. In addition we have one operative thematic sub-dataverse. So, I hope that this is what is meant by "Customizable dataverse names" in the 4.7 point on the roadmap. We also support to drop "Dataverse" as part of the name. In our case, this would make the names of our dataverses less cumbersome, e.g. UiT Open Research Data Repository instead of UiT Open Research Data Dataverse; The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics instead of The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics Dataverse.

Best,
Philipp

[pdurbin]

@philippconzett please see comments from @jggautier at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/A2XFIKqnsTA/qTuHN2XUAgAJ where he tries to differentiate between this issue and #2297.

@philippconzett also, when you say "dataset reference" I think you mean what we call a "citation" for a dataset. Does that sound right? The citation looks like this:

The citation on a dataset "search card":

The citation on a dataset page:

#2297 is much more about the citation than this issue.