2026-03 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology launched their installation of Dataverse, the first in Luxembourg: https://lore.list.lu
* The University of Southern California launched their installation of Dataverse: https://dataverse.carc.usc.edu
* Dataverse 6.10 and 6.10.1 were released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.10
* Jetze Touber and Linda Reijnhoudt from DANS presented a plan for implementing file-level licensing in Dataverse are are requesting feedback: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/F3CEgzKvyEg/m/YEyz-KawAgAJ
* LA Referencia is offering hosting for orphaned datasets in Latin America: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/_ypgkGlkGfY/m/vc785wh4AgAJ
* Keynote speakers for the 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting were announced, including Ian Foster (Argonne), Hilary Hanahoe (RDA), Stefaan Verhulst (GovLab): https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/.23Dataverse2026/near/578121545
* If you're going to the 2026 DCM, Philipp Conzett requests you to sign up for the workshop entitled "Building a Sustainable Path Forward for the Global Dataverse Community" by April 27: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/DtbZ_1xBBxI/m/r2qsOFd5AgAJ
* Deidre Kirmis is organizing a Large Data working group meeting at DCM26, inviting participants, and requesting input: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/MrKsnQsNZqw/m/YLH-DvbGAgAJ
* Proposals for hosting the 2027 Dataverse Community Meeting are being accepted through April 27th: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/wfJcn1bRqUs/m/gQrh35y0AwAJ
* The Nordic-Baltic Dataverse Hub (NAISH) was announced and there is a kickoff meeting in Kaunas, Lithuania April 21-23 that requires remote registration by April 16th: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Z02ymaBiGsg/m/AakZVJCDAgAJ
* DDI is now an ISO standard (ISO/PAS 25955): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/bFVr13tQvVE/m/vKiLoQ6iAwAJ
* Binder will no longer "just work" unless special files are added to the dataset: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/pCroZP9ijLg/m/qPFhnYShAwAJ
* Ceilyn Boyd and Philipp Conzett gave a recorded talk entitled "Birdaro Training & Developing the Dataverse Community and Decision-Makers Playbooks": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/dT1e_jw_8Ck/m/R5VJwyK9AQAJ
* A video from December 2007 by Gary King introducing Dataverse was rediscovered and added to DataverseTV: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/gj1NSuNtqKU/m/13DUFduwAwAJ
* Bob Treacy gave a talk entitled "Improving Metadata Workflow in a Data Repository With AI-Generated Metadata Recommendations": https://dataverse.org/publication/improving-metadata-workflow-data-repository-ai-generated-metadata-recommendations
* GREI wrote a blog post entitled "Data Sharing Demystified — For the Community, By the Community" that links to slides and recordings from a video series: https://medium.com/@blog-grei/data-sharing-demystified-for-the-community-by-the-community-4000f3306e89
* The Documentation working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX8ktajVsRDk-MDF-yHWV0f4vIe8U3DWrSzIerVGlF8/edit?usp=sharing
* The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pj5YZAiFoTURnREZG7rj0TbhWKqQDTo6jb5YQZNcRDM/edit?usp=sharing
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mCgLpIP00BkDr1VFtD-2OgDSmi3We2BGpgiKYrZbRpM/edit?usp=sharing
* The April 7th community call will be about features that were recently added to Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/NDimKTIdcUA/m/I-wi-mLXAwAJ

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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