Certain file types in the Dataverse software are supported by additional functionality, which can include downloading in different formats, subsets, file-level metadata preservation, file-level data citation; and exploration through data visualization and analysis. See the sections below for information about special functionality for specific file types.
UVa’s Dataverse Repository has installed Previewers for several common file types: ASCII Text (txt, html), audio (mp3, mpeg, wav, ogg, X-m4a), image (gif, jpeg, png), pdf, video (mp4, ogg, quicktime), csv, tsv, tab, stata syntax, R-syntax, Hypothesis, and geo+json. The preview appears on the file page. If the file type is one of the above preview tools, the preview will be created and will display automatically. File previews are not available for restricted files.
Files in certain formats - Stata, SPSS, R, CSV, and TSV - may be ingested as tabular data (see “Tabular Data Ingest” section for details). UVa's Dataverse has turned off automatic ingestion of Excel (xlsx) files.
Additional download options available for tabular data (found in the same drop-down menu under the “Download” button):
Code files - such as Stata, R, MATLAB, or Python files or scripts - have become a frequent addition to the research data deposited in Dataverse repositories. Research code is typically developed by few researchers with the primary goal of obtaining results, while its reproducibility and reuse aspects are sometimes overlooked. Because several independent studies reported issues trying to rerun research code, please consider the following guidelines if your dataset contains code.
The following are general guidelines applicable to all programming languages.
Capturing code dependencies will help other researchers recreate the necessary runtime environment. Without it, your code will not be able to run correctly (or at all). Please contact libra@virginia.edu or your subject liaison for help with packaging your data and software for reproducibility on LibraData.
Compressed files in .zip format are not unpacked automatically on the UVa Dataverse repository. A "zipped" file stays zipped (.zip) after upload.
There are several advanced options available for certain file types.