2025-08 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for August 2025:

* 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: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-pm/issues/280#issuecomment-2974704535
* 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 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




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Philip Durbin
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