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Artefactual

Canada

AtoM stands for Access to Memory. It is a web-based, open source application for standards-based archival description and access in a multilingual, multi-repository environment.

Archive information management system

Webrecorder

United States of America

Archive entire websites with Browsertrix, a cloud-native web archiving platform from Webrecorder. With high-fidelity crawling and advanced quality assurance tools, Browsertrix empowers you to create, view, curate, and share archives with confidence.

Digital library, collection or exhibit platform

Web archiving system

Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS)

United States of America

The Dataverse Project is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others and allows you to replicate others' work more easily. Researchers, journals, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive academic credit and web visibility.

A Dataverse repository is the software installation, which then hosts multiple virtual archives called Dataverse collections. Each Dataverse collection contains datasets, and each dataset contains descriptive metadata and data files (including documentation and code that accompany the data). As an organizing method, Dataverse collections may also contain other Dataverse collections.

Repository software

NumPy Community

NumPy is an open source library for numerical computing with Python. Notably, it provides the NumPy N-dimensional array data structure, and an associated API for manipulating such arrays. It is released under the liberal terms of the modified BSD license, and free for all to use. NumPy is developed in the open on GitHub, through the consensus of the NumPy and wider scientific Python community.

Computing library

Standard, specification or protocol

Maintenance Status

Actively Maintained

Open API

Open Data

Open Code Repository

Code License

Technical Documentation

Open Product Roadmap

Programming Languages

XSLT

Technology Readiness Level

Actual system proven in operational environment

Code Licenses Used

AGPL Affero GPL v3

AGPL 3.0

Apache License, Version 2.0

BSD licenses

Content Licensing

In AtoM restrictions can be based on Copyright(s), License, Statute(s), Policy, or Donor (as in an agreement established with a donor) see https://www.accesstomemory.org/en/docs/2.8/user-manual/add-edit-content/rights/#rights

By default, all datasets added in a Dataverse repository are granted the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. The Dataverse software uses the CC0 waiver by default for all datasets (4.0 and on) because of its name recognition in the scientific community, making it a familiar option for data (for which in general copyright does not apply), and is in use by repositories as well as scientific journals that require the deposit of open data. For more information on the CC0 waiver, please visit the Creative Commons website (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0). Data depositors can opt-out of using the CC0 waiver for their datasets, if needed.

Metadata Standards

AtoM was originally built around International Council on Archives (ICA) descriptive standards:

General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD) - 2nd edition, 1999
International Standard Archival Authority Record (Corporate bodies, Persons, Families) (ISAAR) - 2nd edition, 2003
International Standard For Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings (ISDIAH) - 1st edition, March 2008
International Standard For Describing Functions (ISDF) - 1st edition, May 2007
AtoM supports Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) - W3C Recommendation 18 August 2009.

AtoM is designed to be flexible enough for adaptation to other descriptive standards; see Descriptive standards for a full list of other standards currently supported. see https://www.accesstomemory.org/en/docs/2.8/user-manual/overview/intro/

Persistent Identifier Standards

Security Standards

Preservation Standards

PREMIS

Metrics Standards

Hosting Options

Through solution or third party vendor

Through third party vendor only

Integrations

RServe
Binder
Whole Tale
OSF
RSpace
GitHub
GitLab
Renku
OJS
Archivematica
RedCap
iRODS
Duracloud
Dropbox

Community Engagement Commitment

In Progress

Code Of Conduct

User Contribution Pathways

Community Engagement Activities

Social media

Dataverse engages extensively with its user community through a variety of media.

Monthly Community Calls are held on Zoom to discuss upcoming releases, development contributions from the community, and other topics relevant to our community: https://dataverse.org/community-calls.

Dataverse Community and Developer Mailing Lists provide open fora for community members.

Annual Community Meetings provide an opportunity to engage around themes such as sustainability of services and infrastructures and Indigenous Data Sovereignty: https://dataverse.org/events.

The Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) is dedicated to providing international organization to existing Dataverse community efforts and will provide a collaborative venue for institutions to leverage economies of scale in support of Dataverse repositories around the world: https://dataversecommunity.global/.

DataverseTV highlights fantastic video content from the Dataverse community: https://dataverse.org/dataversetv.

Dataverse google group: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community

Joint declaration of Data Citation principles: https://force11.org/info/joint-declaration-of-data-citation-principles-final/

It Takes a Village (ITAV): https://itav.lyrasis.org/

CARE principles for data: https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2020-043

FAIR principles for data: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/

Engagement with Values Frameworks

User Contribution Pathways

Contribute to code
Contribute to documentation

Contribute to code
Contribute to documentation
Contribute to education or training
Contribute to working groups or interest groups

SCOSS Participation

Bylaws

Commitment to Equity & Inclusion

In Progress

Web Accessibility Statement

In Progress

Transparent Pricing and Cost Expectations

Governance Records

Governance Structure

Governance Summary

Browsertrix's development is overseen by Webrecorder Software LLC.

Dataverse is developed at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), along with many collaborators and contributors worldwide. Harvard has two governing boards, the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Corporation. There is also a Global Dataverse Community Consortium.

Board Structure

None

Advisory board or steering committee

Board Level

Artefactual the company has a board of directors. AtoM does not have a board but there is the AtoM Foundation, a federally incorporated, community driven, soliciting non-profit body. The Foundation was established in 2018 to oversee and support the development, sustainability and adoption of Access to Memory (AtoM). https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/

To oversee Webrecorder

The governing board makes decisions mainly on administrative issues, such as how funds should be spent, who serves on the steering council, and whom to grant commit rights.

Community Governance

None

Ad hoc

Formal

Business or Ownership Model

Commercial (for-profit)

Fiscal sponsorship (academic institution)

Fiscal sponsorship (non-profit)

Non-profit Status

Full-time Staff

More than 20

1-5

Volunteers

Unknown

6-10

Shareholders

Primary Funding Source

Program service revenue

Contributions

Other:

Grants, in-kind contributions

Financial Reporting Level

Funding Needs

Artefactual is entirely self-funded. We are here for the long term, we are not focused on profit for investors. We focus on slow and steady growth. This leads us to favour long term partnerships over transactional relationships.

Revenue from our services support investment in our solution and supporting us through a subscription service to AtoM or Archivematica helps us continue to work on open source software.

Sustainable funding for full-time project roles.

Technical

Community

Policies & Governance

Structure

Funding