Report: FY26 Dataverse Community

[cmbz]

Overview

• Monthly updates about Dataverse Community happenings

Community Calls

• Dataverse Community Calls (FY25)

DataverseTV

• DataverseTV

Google Group

• Dataverse Google Group

Working Groups

See: GDCC working groups home page

• Containerization
• Frontend Development
• Large Data Support
• Sensitive Data
• PyDataverse

[cmbz]

Status: July 2025

Community Call

• July 1, 2025 Notes Rok Roškar on Renku

Community News

via @pdurbin's newsletter

• Universidad Santiago de Chile launched their installation of Dataverse: https://datos.usach.cl/
• Stefano Iacus is leaving Harvard for a new position at the European Commission (and will be greatly missed!): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/siacus_dataverse-opendp-activity-7351253649206976512-5dk0
• Dates were announced (May 26-29) for the 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting in Barcelona: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/.23Dataverse2026/near/528803336
• Dataverse 6.7 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/znCNqOegYFk/m/qEAcyIsoAgAJ
• Dataverse 6.7.1 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/X4NA11IBVMs/m/W_W0hHciAgAJ
• The Dataverse 6.8 timeline was announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Y0G9mw4raLU/m/om8vjjVAAQAJ
• Dataverse installations using S3 are advised to upgrade to Dataverse 6.7+ before the end of 2025: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/uGwDRW3Bx0E/m/Z362UGcyAQAJ
• During the (recorded) community call, Rok Roškar demo'ed an updated integration between Renku and Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/2RZWXsKggSE/m/qBFGZqrKAwAJ
• Rclone now supports Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/IoxF85arJhA/m/QFD6vP-bBQAJ
• The Documentation working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX8ktajVsRDk-MDF-yHWV0f4vIe8U3DWrSzIerVGlF8/edit?usp=sharing
• The Documentation working group requests feedback on a new "publish a dataset" quickstart guide: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/TXOEFv9-0kY/m/RT5XV0QiAgAJ
• The Documentation working group is compiling a list of training resources for Dataverse and welcomes your input: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/446770-docs/topic/training.20resources/near/529480942
• The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/167VDcRJCJoUpJoVoRUREWLrDQeQWk_JFr9RKko3sLwo/edit?usp=sharing
• Mark Polczynski shared a series of videos of how to use specific geospatial maps uploaded to Harvard Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/5jmPfB-fiQw/m/tCayWcDiBQAJ
• Knut Wenzig invited the Dataverse community to join a proposed DDI Working Group on Metadata Publication and Access: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/XZYr6wRphuE/m/I6lNTZaTAAAJ
• A new Astro-based proposal for the "Dataverse website on GitHub" idea has been launched (joining Hugo and Sphinx): https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/move.20dataverse.2Eorg.20to.20GitHub.3F/near/528935167
• There's a new "mascot for Dataverse" topic on Zulip: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/mascot.20for.20Dataverse/near/530137733
• The August 5th community call will include a presentation by Jan Range on streaming live data: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/LfMOpqNNtEo/m/QFceM4XVAQAJ

[cmbz]

Status: August 2025

Community Call

• August 5, 2025 Notes Santi Thompson on data retention strategies

Community News

via @pdurbin's newsletter

• The first release of the new React-based Datavese frontend was made, 0.1.0 https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/releases/tag/v0.1.0
• Integration between Open OnDemand and Dataverse was announced, including a new demo video by Aday Bujeda: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/_vX899PJDY4/m/oj7wtIoOBgAJ
• pyDataverse 0.3.5 was released: https://github.com/gdcc/pyDataverse/releases/tag/v0.3.5
• Santi Thompson led a recorded discussion of data retention strategies during the August community call: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/lzHksMQLLCA/m/O-XH6jnxAAAJ
• The Sep 2 community call will feature Yijia (Jenna) Qi on data deletion, retention practices; Bikramjit Channa on AI bot traffic: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/6ta1huyksmk/m/N_kmvpZEDAAJ
• Ceilyn Boyd posted a Dataverse Community FY25 summary: Monitor: Dataverse Community, FY25 #280 (comment)
• IQSS blogged about the 2025 Dataverse Community Meeting: https://www.iq.harvard.edu/news/2025/07/amazing-2025-dataverse-community-meeting
• Julian Gautier wrote a report indicating that benchmarking shows progress in Harvard Dataverse changes in order to increase ORCIDs, RORs in repository dataset metadata, and ultimately increase the data's FAIRness: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/fHS04ccPMhc/m/S2-MLNXsAwAJ
• DANS is looking for feedback on how to implement per-file licensing and is hosting a meeting on Thursday about it: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/F3CEgzKvyEg/m/Crs8YgQKBQAJ
• Slides from a talk entitled "Dataverse in the Mesh" by Stefano Iacus and Jim Myers are now available: https://dataverse.org/presentations/dataverse-mesh
• The Documentation working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX8ktajVsRDk-MDF-yHWV0f4vIe8U3DWrSzIerVGlF8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.nyf6k9ppd6l
• The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yyN300Bcmtp2BvaVenbiJ4YjH2YPgMYDLjEk8Usp2UE/edit?usp=sharing
• The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VI1DU78gTi9sWi5Qo8XQnz29scSB1IJbMdVnCOfAawI/edit?usp=sharing
• ZB Med is hiring a developer for their platform, including aligning it more with the new Dataverse frontend: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/nAAlyMgJUXM/m/jS9smG_dAwAJ
• Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2025 (NIRD25) is accepting proposals until September 30th: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/NIRD25/near/535008551

[cmbz]

Status: September 2025

Community Call

• September 2, 2025 Notes Yijia (Jenna) Qi on her research about data deletion and retention practices. Bikramjit Channa on AI bot traffic at Borealis, other platforms, and how he and colleagues have addressed it. View video recording.

Community News

via @pdurbin's newsletter

• Dataverse 6.8 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/b0abL5bTpy4/m/MDaTeMbbAAAJ
• dataverse-client-javascript 2.1.0 was released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-client-javascript/releases/tag/v2.1.0
• The first JavaScript (TypeScript) recipe was added to the dataverse-recipes repo: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/recipes/near/538852867
• Texas Data Repository created a video about how to use DVUploader: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/New.20DVUploader.20Video/near/541274688
• Jim Myers drafted a big data admin guide: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/446770-docs/topic/big.20data.20admin.20guide/near/541727793
• The GDCC steering committee members were announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/aQ-CmBhjC78/m/sLd5tzOZAAAJ
• Julian Gautier is asking the community about how they evaluate new Dataverse software versions: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/YMaopp8JF94/m/pbUhfVN8BQAJ
• Julian published a dataset about known Dataverse installations: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/DjWUZdtBybk/m/fbSbyftqAAAJ
• Yijia (Jenna) Qi gave a talk on data deletion and retention practices and Bikramjit Channa gave a talk on AI bot traffic (both recorded): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/6ta1huyksmk/m/N_kmvpZEDAAJ
• GREI posted Metadata Recommendations for Repository Adoption from the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: https://medium.com/@blog-grei/metadata-recommendations-for-repository-adoption-from-the-generalist-repository-ecosystem-2c68f099c706
• Ceilyn Boyd and Sonia Barbosa gave a talk entitled "Dataverse Hub & Dataverse Marketplace: Harnessing the Creativity & Power of the Dataverse Community": https://dataverse.org/presentations/dataverse-hub-dataverse-marketplace-harnessing-creativity-power-dataverse
• Ceilyn gave a talk entitled "AI and the Dataverse Project: Using AI to Benefit Research Data Community Members": https://dataverse.org/presentations/ai-and-dataverse-project-using-ai-benefit-research-data-community-members
• Sonia gave a talk entitled "Research Data in Transition: Organization, Challenges, and Emerging Professional Roles in the Era of Digital Repositories": https://dataverse.org/presentations/research-data-transition-organization-challenges-and-emerging
• The Documentation working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX8ktajVsRDk-MDF-yHWV0f4vIe8U3DWrSzIerVGlF8/edit?usp=sharing
• The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dj46LroQWQY4pgm4h-Hj7aRkmB-olE1DZ_KJ6fBfLjQ/edit?usp=sharing
• The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ggf1J-juzuYVAUtHPzSc6NEQsIK6Ql4RglA-i69DfmU/edit?usp=sharing
• There is some discussion about the Sensitive Data working group meeting again: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Sensitive.20Data.20Group.20-.20still.20active.3F/near/537312435
• UNC is hiring a data curator: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/OobaM_aRF_E/m/oPGr_hQIAgAJ
• UiT The Arctic University of Norway has a vacant 2-year position in the project Next-generation research infrastructure for language and linguistics: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/SXh19un-PNE/m/3zb36WJ5AAAJ
• UiT is hiring a repository manager: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/FhvTezh9ROs/m/6kSRPkNxAAAJ
• The NIRD proposal deadline has been extended until Oct 7th: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/NIRD25/near/541321467
• The Oct 7 community call will feature a demo of integration between Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Ul-1SQ0_VMg/m/vGflYVQcAQAJ

[cmbz]

Status: October 2025

Community Call

• October 7, 2025 Notes Pablo Valério Polônia demos an integration between Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Dataverse

Community News

via @pdurbin's newsletter

• The Barcelona Supercomputing Center launched their installation of Dataverse: https://dataverse.bsc.es/
• The Dataverse 6.9 release timeline was announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Da1DuBJo-_4/m/2xk9InQ1AQAJ
• Dataverse Frontend 0.2.0 was released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/releases/tag/v0.2.0
• Ceilyn Boyd announced a new differential privacy tool called DP Wizard: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Sensitive.20data.2C.20differential.20privacy.20.28DP.29.2C.20DP.20Wizard/near/543581203
• Integration of Dataverse and Galaxy is documented in a pull request: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Dataverse-Galaxy.20Integration/near/542806449
• Pablo Valério Polônia gave a recorded talk, during the community call, entitled "Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Dataverse integration plugin": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Ul-1SQ0_VMg/m/oIt1hQDBAwAJ
• Texas Data Repository released new training videos on updating metadata, creating thumbnails, and uploading folders: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/more.20new.20videos.20from.20TDL/near/546731229
• Aday Bujeda recorded a new video demonstrating the integration between Dataverse and Open OnDemand: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/_vX899PJDY4/m/D1p3LgNrBgAJ
• The Dataverse Project website was migrated from the OpenScholar platform: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/IMheyu5XkOA/m/p0EGFtMiAQAJ
• GREI comparison chart v4 was published: https://medium.com/@blog-grei/navigating-data-sharing-the-updated-generalist-repository-comparison-chart-722d6080d848
• DANS ran a meeting about licensing at the file level: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/F3CEgzKvyEg/m/DvMJWaWiAwAJ
• The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rb-7cAhhB_1wPT8_0ex6ohcKIc3Xvlq5/view?usp=drive_link
• Slava Tykhonov gave a recorded talk entitled "Semantic Croissant and CDIF for Responsible AI": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/QZyFOowIaJQ/m/uA3Or-4dAgAJ
• Slava gave a recorded talk entitled "Introduction to Croissant": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXD88A7I-jg
• The Dataverse MCP implementation was mentioned in a blog post: https://mlcommons.org/2025/10/croissant-mcp/
• RSpace will be talking about Dataverse during their Nov 12th office hours: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Dataverse.20in.20the.20next.20RSpace.20open-source.20office.20hour/near/543459137
• The Nov 4th community call will feature Balázs Pataki on creating datasets with an AI agent: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/S9UDl_14O9c/m/smUw34QxAgAJ

[cmbz]

Status: November 2025

Community Call

• November 4, 2025 Notes Balázs Pataki on creating datasets with an AI agent

Community News

via @pdurbin's newsletter

• Ca' Foscari University launched their installation of Dataverse: https://datarepository.unive.it/
• The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development launched their installation of Dataverse: https://data.fdz.ioer.de/
• A call for sponsors went out for the 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/K-kEUyJ2plg/m/c3K1pz8EAQAJ
• Slides from the 2025 Dataverse Community Meeting have been published: https://osf.io/j4r2e
• Balázs Pataki gave a recorded talk about creating datasets with an AI agent at the November community call: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/S9UDl_14O9c/m/HRf_sfuxAgAJ
• Slava Tykhonov gave a talk on Semantic Croissant, Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), and AI: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/7OT-kcxdD9Q/m/Ex6On69CCQAJ
• The Documentation working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX8ktajVsRDk-MDF-yHWV0f4vIe8U3DWrSzIerVGlF8/edit?usp=sharing
• The Documentation working group requests your feedback on a proposed Quickstart Guide: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/TXOEFv9-0kY/m/e0NhBmtFCQAJ
• The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BoGYzNr9F1jSU9c3DOQRFZZwGY_hwErgoQMjCpIwz74/edit?usp=sharing
• Dataverse now has over 1000 stars on GitHub: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/awUnhICKG5c/m/mUro-oX6CAAJ
• The Dec 2 community call will feature Lautaro Matas on Decentralized Archival Resource Key (dARK): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/lb9_WZTrsWA/m/8j8Za7XRBAAJ

[cmbz]

Status: December 2025

Community Call

• December 5, 2025 Notes Lautaro Matas on Decentralized Archival Resource Key (dARK)

Community News

• Pending