Four of my colleagues and I were invited to Seoul National University to give talks and training on Dataverse. Our primary host was Wonsuk Lee, who arranged every detail impeccably. He has big plans for Dataverse at SNU, and we all hope that this is just the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership! When…

I just got back from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia or LIPI) where Sonia Barbosa and I were invited to give talks and participate in workshops in Jakarta and Bandung entitled “Managing and Sharing of Research Data to Increase Research Quality.” LIPI recently launched a research data repository for all researchers…

On March 26, 2017 I gave an impromptu five minute “lightning” talk at LibrePlanet 2017 at MIT. I was one of perhaps half a dozen people who jumped up and talked about their open source project. I’m glad that is was recorded because I think it turned out ok! What do you think? Here’s a…

Please note: This content was originally hosted at http://people.iq.harvard.edu/~pdurbin but that site has gone dark and I wanted to preserve what I wrote in the timeframe between December 2012 and May 2013. I had just begun working as a developer for Dataverse and this was my write up of what Dataverse was back then. I was getting…