2025-12 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* The Czech Social Science Data Archive (CSDA) launched their installation of Dataverse, the first in Czechia: https://archivdv.soc.cas.cz
* Dataverse 6.9 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/RC4XwkH1Wi8/m/EothFb9bAAAJ
* Dates for the 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting in Barcelona were shifted two weeks earlier and are now May 12-15th: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/K-kEUyJ2plg/m/uWmvSJMWCAAJ
* Photos, slides, and videos from the 2025 community meeting are now available: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/oxEByNjhfbM/m/4ZXHvEr5BgAJ
* Frédéric Maguin from Université du Luxembourg released a migration tool called DVImportExport: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/En3Zk9OPiEw/m/xFNzuLWsCQAJ
* Lautaro Matas gave a recorded presentation on Decentralized Archival Resource Key (dARK): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/lb9_WZTrsWA/m/_asntqwrBQAJ
* Eryk Kulikowski gave a demo of a DDI-CDI previewer/editor and exporter: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/nYRqC0gape4/m/lzWfEwIsBQAJ
* Julian Gautier asked for feedback on indicators of the trustworthiness of data: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/PuXGcRt61a0/m/3l-7YBQ3BQAJ
* The GREI webinar series "Streamlining Data Sharing" was announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/UJ6X0bKj2-8/m/Far9MbQ9BwAJ
* The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iSMZda5HWSvsz639gB5C1nmy7Z9MpaCEiVBs9OaHSZs/edit?usp=sharing
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qXRj6JBsgV21mw5CkL_CMpa3gqbPvpO14p8CSwko2Sk/edit?usp=sharing
* The Sensitive Data working group plans to meet on January 23rd: https://www.gdcc.io/working-groups/sensitive-data.html
* There is an open call for innovative uses of COAR Notify: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/vWYGZXLcpAI/m/9CIW8yJ5BwAJ
* The January Dataverse Community Call will feature Jan Range on pyDataverse updates: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Rg-txk7bF8Y/m/CeMl7IGlAAAJ
* Philip Durbin is giving an "intro to Zulip" talk on January 21st: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/zG2Y-pDv-RA/m/-GdA3LqIAQAJ

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Phil

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[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]

Hi Phil,

I did a few Dataverse related talks in December:

- In the session of the Croissant for Machine Learning Working Group, the latest progress on the Semantic Croissant was showcased. The presentation highlighted advances in ontology alignment and the linkage of external controlled vocabularies with CDIF (Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework), demonstrating enhanced interoperability and semantic integration across domains.

Slides: https://zenodo.org/records/17886671

- I have also showcased AI-powered assistant integrated directly into a Dataverse data repository, at the EDDI 2025 conference in Budapest, Hungary. It can connect to an AI pipeline where multiple AI models “chat” with each other, analysing column characteristics and distributions from any spreadsheet. Even when a dataset is published without metadata, the system already provides quite accurate predictions about CODATA CDIF variables, their relationships, and their units of measurement, with a “human in the loop” tool called Nectar Publisher to review, correct, and publish them back to Dataverse.

Slides: https://zenodo.org/records/17790456

AI assistant for Dataverse will be fully available for the Dataverse community in early 2026. 

Of course, even more AI stuff is coming soon: the sneak preview of the super experimental "Pale Fire" framework is already public: https://github.com/4tikhonov/palefire

Cheers,

Slava