The Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data.

The earlier Virtual Data Center (VDC) project, which spanned 1999-2006, was organized by Micah Altman, Gary King, and Sidney Verba as a collaboration between the Harvard-MIT Data Center (now part of IQSS) and the Harvard University Library.

Dataverse is also installed in the countries of the European Union to preserve data collected by research communities of Netherlands, Germany, France and Finland.

The largest Dataverse repository is called DataverseNL[5] and located in the Netherlands providing data management services for 11 Dutch Universities.

In Canada,[7] Borealis is a national instance of the Dataverse repository hosted by OCUL's Scholars Portal at the University of Toronto.