#  Element 2: Related Tools, Software and Code 

 



##  Relevant Information

 Harvard Dataverse Repository accepts and encourages the deposit research software and code produced to analyze data. Enhancements to better describe research software are forthcoming.

###  About Element 2: Related Tools, Software and Code

 Sort    Element 2: Related Tools, Software and Code

 

  Indicate whether specialized tools, software, and/or code are needed to access or manipulate shared scientific data, and if so, provide the name(s) of the needed tool(s) and software and specify how they can be accessed.

 

    **Harvard Dataverse Recommends**

 

  **Description**

 

  **Links to More Information**

 

    Publish analysis code

 

  Best practice guidelines encourage the publication of analysis code, configuration, and execution files to be published with data and other input files used to generate or compute research results. This is especially important for replication datasets.

 

  Replication guidance: <https://dataverse.org/best-practices/replication-dataset>

 Research Code: <https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/user/dataset-management.html#research-code>

 

    Use Harvard Dataverse tools

 

 - Github connector
- GeoJSON
- Data Explorer
- Supported File Previewers
- Binder
 
 

  Link to tools in guide

 Is this it? <https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/admin/external-tools.html#inventory-of-external-tools>

 

    Follow best practices for research code

 

  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.

 

  <https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/user/dataset-management.html#research-code>

 

    Publish research &amp; scientific software

 

  Generalized or multi-purpose software that can be used across different datasets may be published as a separate research object

 

  Publishing as separate research objects can include: as a separate dataset in Harvard Dataverse, or in another location (GitHub, container registry, Zenodo)

 

    **Sample DMP Text for Section 2.1**

 

  To support data access and reuse all code files generated as a product of this research will be published in Harvard Dataverse as part of the replication dataset that contains data and documentation files.

 Original software developed to analyze imaging data (e.g.) will be published in Harvard Dataverse.