Designed for personal use by researchers or use by institutions.
Web-based.
Optimized for web discovery?
OAI-PMH harvesting.
Can create standalone dataverse or base it in Harvard's Dataverse
Weaknesses
Does not interoperate with GitHub or ORCID
If based in Harvard's Dataverse, dependent on that institution
If creating standalone dataverse, requires hardware and software set up.
Difficult to customize (?)
Not used often for government data (?)
Dataverse (example repository)
Summary
Designed for personal use by researchers or use by institutions. Web-based. Optimized for web discovery? OAI-PMH harvesting. Can create standalone dataverse or base it in Harvard's Dataverse
Weaknesses
Does not interoperate with GitHub or ORCID If based in Harvard's Dataverse, dependent on that institution If creating standalone dataverse, requires hardware and software set up. Difficult to customize (?) Not used often for government data (?)
Unique functions
Get academic credit for contributing.