2026-05 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* The 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting, hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, was a huge success: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/.23Dataverse2026/near/595801177
* Next year's community meeting will be hosted by KU Leuven and will take place May 25-28, 2027 in Leuven, Belgium: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/.23Dataverse2027/near/595280565
* Sergej Zerr announced a new graphical downloader desktop application for Dataverse files: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/PYlu2RztSPE/m/RYAsqxTcBQAJ
* Thanks to new Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure in the form of GitHub Actions developed by Ash Manda, contributors to Dataverse should now be able to tell which API tests (if any) are failing in their pull requests: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/9916#issuecomment-4546927009
* New scripts for faster redeployment of Dataverse in development by Eryk Kulikowski have been merged: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/379673-dev/topic/fast.20redeploy.20with.20docker.20compose/near/554304782
* Dataverse Frontend 0.3.2 was released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/releases/tag/v0.3.2
* Daina Kosīte, Kristaps Oškalns, Gustavo Durand, and Philip Durbin gave recorded talks in Riga, Latvia during an event entitled "DataverseLV – Celebrating the First Year in the Dataverse community": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/SVztme1xbtU/m/QV1EmHorAgAJ
* The Large Data Support working group held a meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nz3CLXuycktXFcQXqEGJa1hkhn52M0B1W3HtFMB4kg4/edit?usp=sharing
* The Documentation working group held a meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX8ktajVsRDk-MDF-yHWV0f4vIe8U3DWrSzIerVGlF8/edit?usp=sharing
* The pyDataverse working group held a meeting: https://py.gdcc.io
* The Containerization working group held a recorded meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jrGp846XLduA7rDxc4EnqbPlVf85gRhgqYrQDMr9Ut4/edit?usp=sharing
* Zulip, which powers Dataverse chat, announced a major transition: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375876-zulip/topic/major.20transition.20.28Zulip.20Foundation.29/near/596526999
* The June 2nd community call will be a recap of Barcelona and a demo by Eryk: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Ibx_qfqT5gg/m/9LqQXxJVAwAJ

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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