2025-09 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* Dataverse 6.8 was released: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/b0abL5bTpy4/m/MDaTeMbbAAAJ
* dataverse-client-javascript 2.1.0 was released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-client-javascript/releases/tag/v2.1.0
* The first JavaScript (TypeScript) recipe was added to the dataverse-recipes repo: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/recipes/near/538852867
* Texas Data Repository created a video about how to use DVUploader: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/New.20DVUploader.20Video/near/541274688
* Jim Myers drafted a big data admin guide: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/446770-docs/topic/big.20data.20admin.20guide/near/541727793
* The GDCC steering committee members were announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/aQ-CmBhjC78/m/sLd5tzOZAAAJ
* Julian Gautier is asking the community about how they evaluate new Dataverse software versions: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/YMaopp8JF94/m/pbUhfVN8BQAJ
* Julian published a dataset about known Dataverse installations: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/DjWUZdtBybk/m/fbSbyftqAAAJ
* Yijia (Jenna) Qi gave a talk on data deletion and retention practices and Bikramjit Channa gave a talk on AI bot traffic (both recorded): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/6ta1huyksmk/m/N_kmvpZEDAAJ
* GREI posted Metadata Recommendations for Repository Adoption from the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: https://medium.com/@blog-grei/metadata-recommendations-for-repository-adoption-from-the-generalist-repository-ecosystem-2c68f099c706
* Ceilyn Boyd and Sonia Barbosa gave a talk entitled "Dataverse Hub & Dataverse Marketplace: Harnessing the Creativity & Power of the Dataverse Community": https://dataverse.org/presentations/dataverse-hub-dataverse-marketplace-harnessing-creativity-power-dataverse
* Ceilyn gave a talk entitled "AI and the Dataverse Project: Using AI to Benefit Research Data Community Members": https://dataverse.org/presentations/ai-and-dataverse-project-using-ai-benefit-research-data-community-members
* Sonia gave a talk entitled "Research Data in Transition: Organization, Challenges, and Emerging Professional Roles in the Era of Digital Repositories": https://dataverse.org/presentations/research-data-transition-organization-challenges-and-emerging
* 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/1Dj46LroQWQY4pgm4h-Hj7aRkmB-olE1DZ_KJ6fBfLjQ/edit?usp=sharing
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ggf1J-juzuYVAUtHPzSc6NEQsIK6Ql4RglA-i69DfmU/edit?usp=sharing
* There is some discussion about the Sensitive Data working group meeting again: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Sensitive.20Data.20Group.20-.20still.20active.3F/near/537312435
* UNC is hiring a data curator: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/OobaM_aRF_E/m/oPGr_hQIAgAJ
* UiT The Arctic University of Norway has a vacant 2-year position in the project Next-generation research infrastructure for language and linguistics: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/SXh19un-PNE/m/3zb36WJ5AAAJ
* UiT is hiring a repository manager: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/FhvTezh9ROs/m/6kSRPkNxAAAJ
* The NIRD proposal deadline has been extended until Oct 7th: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/NIRD25/near/541321467
* The Oct 7 community call will feature a demo of integration between Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Ul-1SQ0_VMg/m/vGflYVQcAQAJ

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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