Biking home from work today I was listening to the video of the second day of the NIH Generalist Repositories Workshop and heard mention of a spreadsheet being used to compare data repositories. Sure enough, the notes for that day mention a spreadsheet called Repository and Index Software (Work in Progress) as well as a repo on GitHub that was recently updated to include this spreadsheet.

The repo says,

“We created this list to:

1. Provide a “lay of the land” summary of existing software
2. Identify important features (especially those that fall in the “next generation repository” category) for InvenioRDM
3. Identify other tools that may have some level of interoperability with our project”

So I guess the spreadsheet comes from InvenioRDM, which seems to be a flavor of Invenio.

Dataverse is in the spreadsheet but, sadly, the information seems to be stale. For example, while a “no” for “Internationalization Support” was accurate a while back, Dataverse has since been translated into 11 languages:

• English (US)
• French (Canada)
• French (France)
• German (Austria)
• Slovenian
• Swedish
• Ukrainian
• Spanish
• Italian
• Hungarian
• Portuguese

Hmm, maybe 10 is more accurate since the two French translations are probably similar. Anyway, I left a comment about this in the spreadsheet. 😄

I also left a comment about how Dataverse now supports OpenID Connect 1.0. This is quite a recent development, only available in the latest release, 4.19.

It's late and I don't have the energy to leave more comments but I'm hoping that I get a reponse on the two I left. And maybe I'll listen to that part of the video again to make sure I understand what was said.

I sympathize with how hard it is to keep comparisons like this up to date. I saw a tweet recently saying, “I've seen this older compilation before from @dataverseorg (2017). Any updates or other sources?” This is a reference to the a spreadsheet and associated blog post called A Comparative Review of Various Data Repositories, which is indeed from 2017.