2026-01 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

Here's what's top of mind for January 2026:

* The Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) launched their installation of Dataverse, the first in Ireland: https://issda.ucd.ie
* Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y los Saberes, launched their installation of Dataverse: https://investigacionartes.mincultura.gov.co
* The 2026 Community Meeting call for papers has been extended until Feb 2 for talks and Feb 16 for posters: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/fC9iAgzPGe4/m/yMuDCicVBQAJ
* Dataverse Uploader GitHub Action v1.7 was released (a bug fix): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Aox_31C6VBM/m/ar_4OOMJBgAJ
* Jan Range and Sjaak Derksen gave recorded talks about pyDataverse and DCAT: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/sM5Kdwy1lT0/m/NKmHJLIqBgAJ
* GREI gave a recorded webinar entitled "Simplifying Repository Selection with GREI's Flowchart and Comparison Chart": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/UJ6X0bKj2-8/m/9uLxUxILBgAJ
* GREI shared a blog post entitled "A New Tool for Measuring Metadata Completeness": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/gSL6gfHjiI0/m/fkQLrKXAGAAJ
* The Sensitive Data working group held a recorded meeting: https://www.gdcc.io/working-groups/sensitive-data.html#previous-meetings
* The Documentation working group held a recorded meeting: https://www.gdcc.io/working-groups/documentation.html#previous-meetings
* The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qNVAOmiq8NvBocX_E30JH3bHTmA0qKTCXLNTqAQa1Yc/edit?usp=sharing
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zYk_bLV9qB8YKQmJXBcsDz_OrSLY3Cx8cPGxJ3oFRQY/edit?usp=sharing
* Lepidus Tecnologia published a new article about the OJS plugin for Dataverse (in Portuguese): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/hr2VTVXnk2g/m/Zl1sK6yAEgAJ
* Philip Durbin gave a recorded "Intro to Zulip" talk from the Dataverse perspective: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/zG2Y-pDv-RA/m/Z0YGgN7QGAAJ
* On Feb 9 Ceilyn Boyd and Sonia Barbosa are giving a talk about the new Dataverse UI: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Xt2mRy02ceQ/m/n385LRcCBgAJ
* The Feb 3 community call will feature Amber Leahey and Paul Boon talking about additional geospatial fields and Geonames: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/rA5tdZfauvQ/m/aQTB_X_YBAAJ

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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