2026-02 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul launched their installation of Dataverse: https://cedapdados.ufrgs.br
* DATAPB launched their installation of Dataverse: https://dataverse.ideal.ufpb.br
* A preliminary agenda was published for the 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting and the early bird deadline was extended until March 9th: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/OxN2bWtGfP0/m/rX017yBsAAAJ
* Amber Leahey and Paul Boon gave talks about geospatial features in Dataverse, adding more fields, an ISO-19115 exporter, and using GeoNames: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/rA5tdZfauvQ/m/FecDvsIrAgAJ
* The deadline for providing feedback on the geospatial fields Amber presented is March 30th: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/rA5tdZfauvQ/m/5v109aQwAgAJ
* Ceilyn Boyd, Sonia Barbosa, and Philipp Conzett gave a recorded talk entitled "Dataverse: an Open-Source Platform for Research Data" to the Data Umbrella community: https://bsky.app/profile/dataverseorg.bsky.social/post/3meoiawkigk2z
* Sonia and Ceilyn gave a talk entitled "Dataverse Reloaded: Improving Data Sharing Through Design": https://dataverse.org/publication/dataverse-reloaded-improving-data-sharing-through-design
* The Dataverse 6.10 timeline was pushed out a week: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Release.206.2E10.20Timeline/near/576081819
* Pablo Valério Polônia published a video on Open Journal Systems (OJS) integration with Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/U8WvE6R3ekM/m/uJFe8q6PBwAJ
* The Documentation working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX8ktajVsRDk-MDF-yHWV0f4vIe8U3DWrSzIerVGlF8/edit?tab=t.0
* The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HKmMeSSr_Bg5-rVQi-M6BUuHfnBI_2w37p1iKVttSkc/edit?usp=sharing
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIb4XWJ6_2w4m_70CaHDrkljirx_TDEwViuttonJ21M/edit?usp=sharing
* GREI published an article entitled "Introducing the Generalist Repository Selection Flowchart v2": https://medium.com/@blog-grei/introducing-the-generalist-repository-selection-flowchart-v2-526cedfb2ba8
* The March 3rd community call will feature Ceilyn Boyd and Philipp Conzett on the Birdaro Training Program and ongoing work on a community playbook for the Dataverse community: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/dT1e_jw_8Ck/m/Wlu_Tqh2AQAJ

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Phil

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