2026-07 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* Dataverse 6.11 was released: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Dataverse.206.2E11.20is.20here.21/near/607698201
* Two Dataverse security advisories were sent to new dataverse-security Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/VQ-D0tIxVP4/m/whFIqm4HAgAJ
* IQSS blogged about Dataverse events in Barcelona and Latvia and 150 installations around the world: https://www.iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/06/dataverse-going-global-expanding-international-data-sharing-community

* Vera Clemens gave a recorded talk about linked open data/relationships in Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/-Ki-MWvvd2c/m/SGa3-GqjAgAJ
* Alyssa Conlon gave recorded talk about rebooting the internationalization working group and announced a new #internationalization chat room on Zulip: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/615767-internationalization/topic/Internationalization.20WG.20is.20starting.20up.20again.21/near/608997751
* Deirdre Kirmis announced a new chat room on Zulip called #infra-ops for infrastructure and day-to-day operations of running Dataverse repositories: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/y6Ridk2fWJM/m/dyF5lOnvAgAJ
* Dieuwertje Bloemen from KU Leuven is conducting a survey until August 10th about which features to prioritize for review dashboard they've developed: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/cQcsvWbyha4/m/exlxqNMqAAAJ
* Dataverse features are now listed in the guides: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/cy6Jc0oZ-wM/m/fLMbm6X3AgAJ
* CoreTrustSeal endorsed Borealis CTS Certification Documentation Suite: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Uw-spcIQ5-A/m/jysNimQdAgAJ
* Jan Range is experimenting with ReadMe for developer-friendly API documentation for Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/AlEnUKa6K5U/m/aFk6lhIwAgAJ
* The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18wzVZQoX6IJW88oA-mrKf3EecbxVYWD9tclUTifczg8/edit?usp=sharing
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hWKp9mk3KLx0c54HUCsJqHssV1ol66F-samectJ-6Ss/edit?usp=sharing
* GREI wrote a blog post entitled "Listening, Learning, Evolving: Four Years of GREI Community Engagement": https://medium.com/@blog-grei/listening-learning-evolving-four-years-of-grei-community-engagement-d23937cb7a6f
* Philip Durbin vibe coded a visualizer for the hierarchy of collections in Dataverse: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/HGa3Y6-386I/m/yI2Wnk19AQAJ
* 22 installations of Dataverse don't have any contact info (please help!): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/AsDwodfbS8g/m/QIKIqYQ2BAAJ
* Notch8 is hiring DevOps to work on Dataverse (and other platforms): https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/615845-infra-ops/topic/Notch8.20hiring.20DevOps.20to.20work.20on.20Dataverse.20.28and.20other.20stuff.29/near/612435984
* On the August 4th call, Philip Durbin and Jim Myers plan to talk about the Dataverse 6.11 release and recent updates to external vocabularies, previewers, and dvwebloader: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/9cgqxQLNTAc/m/UrUsxwG6BwAJ

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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