Institute for Quantitative Social Science

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public(github.com/IQSS/dataverse

core features withheld

no — academic institute at Harvard

Harvard Dataverse runs a current release of the Dataverse software, which Harvard's IQSS develops in the open under Apache-2.0. Deposit is free, and no feature of the software is held back for a paid edition.

• https://datamanagement.hms.harvard.edu/share/data-repositories recorded 2026-10-07

  "Harvard Dataverse Repository is free for all researchers worldwide (up to 1 TB)."

• https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/info/version recorded 2026-10-07

  {"version":"6.10.1","build":"iqss-4"}: the Harvard installation reports the Dataverse release it runs.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IQSS/dataverse/HEAD/LICENSE.md recorded 2026-10-07

  "The Dataverse software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IQSS/dataverse/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

  "Dataverse®, the open source software platform designed for sharing, finding, citing, and preserving research data. Developed by the Dataverse team at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science".

The installation's own metrics API counts every file downloaded from it, read here over the trailing month. That is file traffic rather than a count of researchers, and one dataset download can fetch many files.

• https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/info/metrics/downloads recorded 2026-10-07

  {"status":"OK","data":{"count":177441883}} downloads in total, read 2026-10-07.

• https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/info/metrics/downloads/pastDays/30 recorded 2026-10-07

  {"status":"OK","data":{"count":9682680}}, read 2026-10-07.

Researchers anywhere can deposit data for free, and each dataset is versioned under a DOI that the API serves for download. Tabular files are ingested into a standard form with variable-level metadata and can be described in Croissant for machine learning tools, which puts it beside OpenML rather than Zenodo.

• https://datamanagement.hms.harvard.edu/share/data-repositories recorded 2026-10-07

  Harvard Dataverse: "Assignment of dataset DOIs Yes"; "free for all researchers worldwide (up to 1 TB)".

• https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html recorded 2026-10-07

  Native API reference: create and publish datasets, list versions, and download files by dataset persistent identifier.

• https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/user/dataset-management.html recorded 2026-10-07

  "Files in certain formats - Stata, SPSS, R, Excel (xlsx), CSV and TSV - may be ingested as tabular data"; exports "Croissant ... Dublin Core DDI ... DataCite 4 ... Schema.org JSON-LD".