2025-03 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* Dataverse 6.6 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/sRrbad1o8GY/m/xTD73yVNAwAJ
* Remote presentations will be allowed at the 2025 Dataverse Community Meeting: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/.23Dataverse2025/near/508288229
* Paul Boon gave a recorded demo of a geographical map for Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/pS5Ct9k5ukQ/m/5_lLpy6aAAAJ
* There is a new "dataverse-recipes" repo of code examples: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/recipes/near/503105735
* GREI (which includes Dataverse) published a paper entitled "Defining Big Data for Generalist Repositories": https://zenodo.org/records/14782997
* GREI published a blog post entitled "GREI Repository Approaches to Supporting Big Data": https://medium.com/@blog-grei/grei-repository-approaches-to-supporting-big-data-d1a8cfe10490
* GREI published a blog post entitled "How to Share Data in Generalist Repositories": https://medium.com/@blog-grei/how-to-share-data-in-generalist-repositories-6e52fb0435b1
* Julie from Scholars Portal asked the community about the handling of RData files in the Archivematica integration: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/o9N52isfBK8/m/PMnIUr27AAAJ
* The Documentation working group held a meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AuGT-mGq9ssOCrHRRgQdcSVz2XbAD-qECXwBHCgMo7E/edit?tab=t.0
* The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sGBWyf5NYq_aZvhMWr5cMNhNt_PEaumImDT581-7hhs/edit?usp=sharing
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D0wVno-7tZhmMrNDYNVvwgjtp4DR7p6JCp8yKuyzoJw/edit?usp=sharing
* The April 1st community call will feature Charity Everett on visualizing the Dataverse in 3D using WebXR technology: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/p6c__V3RuoY/m/c2alSIyLAwAJ
* On April 15th, Julian Gautier will host a webinar about how administrators of Dataverse repositories can customize Dataverse's dataset metadata form: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/8PLYL9lvXvE/m/b9q3ReqOAwAJ
* On April 15th, Corey Davis and Shahira Khair from the University of Victoria will share how they were able to get the CoreTrustSeal certification for their instance of Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/83YxHYDT1ls/m/j473SYYaBgAJ

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Thanks!

Phil

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Philip Durbin
Software Developer for http://dataverse.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin