2025-07 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* Universidad Santiago de Chile launched their installation of Dataverse: https://datos.usach.cl
* Stefano Iacus is leaving Harvard for a new position at the European Commission (and will be greatly missed!): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/siacus_dataverse-opendp-activity-7351253649206976512-5dk0
* Dates were announced (May 26-29) for the 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting in Barcelona: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/.23Dataverse2026/near/528803336
* Dataverse 6.7 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/znCNqOegYFk/m/qEAcyIsoAgAJ
* Dataverse 6.7.1 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/X4NA11IBVMs/m/W_W0hHciAgAJ
* The Dataverse 6.8 timeline was announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Y0G9mw4raLU/m/om8vjjVAAQAJ
* Dataverse installations using S3 are advised to upgrade to Dataverse 6.7+ before the end of 2025: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/uGwDRW3Bx0E/m/Z362UGcyAQAJ
* During the (recorded) community call, Rok Roškar demo'ed an updated integration between Renku and Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/2RZWXsKggSE/m/qBFGZqrKAwAJ
* Rclone now supports Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/IoxF85arJhA/m/QFD6vP-bBQAJ
* The Documentation working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX8ktajVsRDk-MDF-yHWV0f4vIe8U3DWrSzIerVGlF8/edit?usp=sharing

* The Documentation working group requests feedback on a new "publish a dataset" quickstart guide: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/TXOEFv9-0kY/m/RT5XV0QiAgAJ

* The Documentation working group is compiling a list of training resources for Dataverse and welcomes your input: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/446770-docs/topic/training.20resources/near/529480942
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/167VDcRJCJoUpJoVoRUREWLrDQeQWk_JFr9RKko3sLwo/edit?usp=sharing
* Mark Polczynski shared a series of videos of how to use specific geospatial maps uploaded to Harvard Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/5jmPfB-fiQw/m/tCayWcDiBQAJ
* Knut Wenzig invited the Dataverse community to join a proposed DDI Working Group on Metadata Publication and Access: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/XZYr6wRphuE/m/I6lNTZaTAAAJ

* A new Astro-based proposal for the "Dataverse website on GitHub" idea has been launched (joining Hugo and Sphinx): https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/move.20dataverse.2Eorg.20to.20GitHub.3F/near/528935167

* There's a new "mascot for Dataverse" topic on Zulip: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/mascot.20for.20Dataverse/near/530137733

* The August 5th community call will include a presentation by Jan Range on streaming live data: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/LfMOpqNNtEo/m/QFceM4XVAQAJ

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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