2025-10 Dataverse Community News

[Philip Durbin]

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

* The Barcelona Supercomputing Center launched their installation of Dataverse: https://dataverse.bsc.es
* The Dataverse 6.9 release timeline was announced: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Da1DuBJo-_4/m/2xk9InQ1AQAJ
* Dataverse Frontend 0.2.0 was released: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/releases/tag/v0.2.0
* Ceilyn Boyd announced a new differential privacy tool called DP Wizard: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Sensitive.20data.2C.20differential.20privacy.20.28DP.29.2C.20DP.20Wizard/near/543581203
* Integration of Dataverse and Galaxy is documented in a pull request: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Dataverse-Galaxy.20Integration/near/542806449
* Pablo Valério Polônia gave a recorded talk, during the community call, entitled  "Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Dataverse integration plugin": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Ul-1SQ0_VMg/m/oIt1hQDBAwAJ
* Texas Data Repository released new training videos on updating metadata, creating thumbnails, and  uploading folders: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/more.20new.20videos.20from.20TDL/near/546731229
* Aday Bujeda recorded a new video demonstrating the integration between Dataverse and Open OnDemand: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/_vX899PJDY4/m/D1p3LgNrBgAJ
* The Dataverse Project website was migrated from the OpenScholar platform: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/IMheyu5XkOA/m/p0EGFtMiAQAJ
* GREI comparison chart v4 was published: https://medium.com/@blog-grei/navigating-data-sharing-the-updated-generalist-repository-comparison-chart-722d6080d848
* DANS ran a meeting about licensing at the file level: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/F3CEgzKvyEg/m/DvMJWaWiAwAJ
* The pyDataverse working group held a recorded meeting: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rb-7cAhhB_1wPT8_0ex6ohcKIc3Xvlq5/view?usp=drive_link
* Slava Tykhonov gave a recorded talk entitled "Semantic Croissant and CDIF for Responsible AI": https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/QZyFOowIaJQ/m/uA3Or-4dAgAJ
* Slava gave a recorded talk entitled "Introduction to Croissant": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXD88A7I-jg
* The Dataverse MCP implementation was mentioned in a blog post: https://mlcommons.org/2025/10/croissant-mcp/
* RSpace will be talking about Dataverse during their Nov 12th office hours: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/375707-community/topic/Dataverse.20in.20the.20next.20RSpace.20open-source.20office.20hour/near/543459137
* The Nov 4th community call will feature Balázs Pataki on creating datasets with an AI agent: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/S9UDl_14O9c/m/smUw34QxAgAJ

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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