CESSDA Webinar: Dataverse Customisation for Repository Managers
How much of your Dataverse can you change yourself, and when do you actually need IT?
Join us for the CESSDA webinar "Dataverse Customisation for Repository Managers: Practical Insights from AUSSDA and DASSI" on 10 December 2026, from 14:00 to 15:00 CET.
Lorenz Makula (AUSSDA) and Domingo Scisci (DASSI) will share hands-on experience from their respective installations and show how institutional requirements can be met with different levels of technical effort – from customisations you can make yourself to those requiring IT support.
What to expect:
- Dataset templates and collection settings (live demo)
- Institutional customisations: menus, content and automated system emails
- Metadata modifications using metadata blocks and TSV definitions (live demo)
- Branding, custom CSS, footers and usage analytics
- A Docker-based environment for testing customisations before deploying them to production
- Q&A and discussion, with questions welcome in the chat throughout the webinar
The webinar is aimed at repository managers and anyone responsible for managing or customising a Dataverse installation. No programming knowledge is required.
Registration (required): Register here
Detailed agenda:
Dataverse Customisation for Repository Managers: Practical Insights from AUSSDA and DASSI
10 December 2026 · 14:00-15:00 CET
| Topic | Presenters |
| Welcome and introduction | AUSSDA and DASSI |
| Dataset templates and collection settings (live demo) | AUSSDA |
| Institutional customisations in practice: menus, content and automated emails | AUSSDA |
| Metadata modification: metadata blocks and TSV definitions (live demo) | DASSI |
| Branding and usage analytics: custom CSS, footer, Google Analytics | DASSI |
| Docker-based testing and development environment | DASSI |
| Questions and discussion | AUSSDA and DASSI |
Questions can be posted in the chat at any time. The final minutes are reserved for questions and discussion.