2025-04 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* The Sano Centre for Computational Medicine launched their installation of Dataverse: https://sano.rodbuk.pl
* KU Leuven RDR is now is CoreTrustSeal certified, the first repository in Belgium to receive this recognition: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/zOAlZLHKeNg/m/_nZVqp1xCwAJ
* Dataverse Community Meeting 2025 registration is now live: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/jHB4v_DPDgg/m/LvAbbWYYCgAJ
* The DCM 2025 program committee is looking for volunteers to introduce speakers and serve as moderators: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/a-QS8tGvvdY/m/8YjUojRDDgAJ
* Active and proposed working groups are encouraged to gather at DCM 2025: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Xvj1P2ltJWY/m/I9iu_2WeCAAJ
* The Dataverse 6.7 release timeline was announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/a9G5XhooWyA/m/LJ-0QHdABAAJ
* DVWebloader 0.3 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/JwKmKmfHVxQ/m/SlQE7I2MDgAJ
* python-dvuploader 0.3.0 was released: https://github.com/gdcc/python-dvuploader/releases/tag/v0.3.0
* EasyDataverse 0.4.4 was released: https://github.com/gdcc/easyDataverse/releases/tag/v0.4.4
* A call went out for nominations for the 2025 GDCC Steering Committee elections: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/5yjMwiSY9bg/m/q5NFANo_DwAJ
* A call went out for feedback on a technical plan for making sure that for datasets published with CC0 waiver or standard license, metadata exports include the waiver or license: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/CYdXKe1FjmA/m/xsP85-F6DwAJ
* Charity Everett gave a recorded talk on visualizing the Dataverse in 3D using WebXR technology during the monthly community call: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/p6c__V3RuoY/m/dr-2_o2nBwAJ
* Julian Gautier gave a recorded webinar entitled "Introduction to Metadata in Dataverse Repositories: For Installation Administrators": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/8PLYL9lvXvE/m/xfsC99yzDAAJ
* The recording and slides from the webinar "Using Permissions in Dataverse" by Sonia Barbosa and Gustavo Durand are now available:  https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/u8xtVpJUrzE/m/3_7ZnkyBAAAJ
* The recording and slides from the webinar "Large Data Support in Harvard Dataverse" by Sonia Barbosa and Leonid Andreev are now available: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Etwl2vdN_Pw/m/8z3CgZFPAwAJ
* Slava Tykhonov gave a recorded talk entitled "Dataverse and Croissant: Metadata for AI and Machine Learning Systems": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSjdYhjHww&t=6472s
* Slava published an article entitled "A Knowledge Base for Arts and Inclusion -- The Dataverse data archival platform as a knowledge base management system enabling multimodal accessibility": https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.05976
* IQSS celebrated its 20th anniversary: https://bsky.app/profile/iqss.bsky.social/post/3lmk32duyrs2u
* The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A8bTLznwHBMCTonOmk-PDsKaOeZ4u7cKagi4DZZ2iVk/edit?usp=sharing
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eg_XzwSsSDRNj_T-Myc7D6xOwyXZOnIwQwrpAmGvrpE/edit?usp=sharing
* Sherry Lake is retiring ♥️ and the University of Virginia is hiring for her position: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/tOgpSC1dBrk/m/b30JLLXuBwAJ
* FZJ is hiring a Community Manager: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/6MTGqIfW8NM/m/lg2OF2rqAwAJ
* The May 6th community call will feature Brendan Leonard and Robert Christie presenting "Integrating Data Downloads Using Dataverse into the Atlas of Economic Complexity" (working title): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/nLHf9urXF3Q/m/mzY7Egd-EAAJ

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Phil

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Philip Durbin
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[Philipp Conzett]

Thanks Phil! I'd like to add that the call for nominations for the 2025 GDCC Steering Committee Elections was announced on April 28 and is open until May 23, 2025 at 18:00 CEST.

Best, Philipp