Community Calls
On the first Tuesday of the month, the Dataverse Project hosts a Zoom call to discuss upcoming releases, contributions from the community, and other topics. All are welcome to attend!
Please see our planning doc for a preview of what might be ahead. If you would like to present something or lead a discussion, please get in touch via the mailing list or chat! You're also welcome to help organize future calls.
Community calls are listed in the Dataverse community Google Calendar. Most calls are recorded and available on DataverseTV.
Upcoming calls
See the Dataverse community calendar for the current schedule.
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Notes and recordings
For recordings, please see DataverseTV.
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September 1, 2026 Notes URGE (Universal Readme file GEnerator) and the Borealis README Generator
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August 4, 2026 Notes Dataverse 6.11, external vocabularies, previewers, dvwebloader
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July 7, 2026 Notes Linked open data/relationships in Dataverse with Johannes Darms and Vera Clemens and Rebooting the internationalization working group with Alyssa Conlon
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June 2, 2026 Notes Demo from Eryk Kulikowski of mounting a dataset as a local file system and stories from the 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting in Barcelona
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April 7, 2027 Notes Features from recent releases
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March 3, 2026 Notes Ceilyn Boyd and Philipp Conzett on the Birdaro Training Program and ongoing work on a community playbook for the Dataverse community
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February 3, 2026 Notes Amber Leahey on new geospatial metadata block expansion and exporters and Paul Boon on Geonames
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January 6, 2026 Notes Jan Range on pyDataverse, Sjaak Derksen on DCAT 3.0
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December 5, 2025 Notes Lautaro Matas on Decentralized Archival Resource Key (dARK)
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November 4, 2025 Notes Balázs Pataki on creating datasets with an AI agent
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October 7, 2025 Notes Pablo Valério Polônia demos an integration between Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Dataverse
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September 2, 2025 Notes Yijia (Jenna) Qi on her research about data deletion and retention practices. Bikramjit Channa on AI bot traffic at Borealis, other platforms, and how he and colleagues have addressed it. View video recording.
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August 5, 2025 Notes Santi Thompson on data retention strategies
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July 1, 2025 Notes Rok Roškar on Renku
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June: no call, see you at the 2025 Dataverse Community Meeting!
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May 6, 2025 Notes Brendan Leonard and Robert Christie on custom websites for datasets, such as The Atlas of Economic Complexity
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April 1, 2025 Notes Charity Everett on visualizing the Dataverse in 3D using WebXR technology
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March 4, 2025 Notes Paul Boon on a geographical map for Dataverse
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February 4, 2025 NotesSlava Tykhonov on ask.dataverse.org
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January 7, 2025 Notes Eric Olson on CEDAR
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December 3, 2024 Notes Ozgur Karadeniz on KU Leuven’s review dashboard
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November 5, 2024 Notes Arofan Gregory on DDI-CDI
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October 1, 2024 Notes Ozgur Karadeniz on an RO-Crate exporter. View slides and video recording.
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September 3, 2024 Notes Alvin Stockdale on NLM’s Dataset Catalog and Amber Leahey and others on the Data Explorer tool. View video recording.
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August 6, 2024 Notes Jan Range on a Rust library, a CLI and a DVUploader desktop app. View video recording.
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May 28, 2024 Notes Bob Treacy on AI and Dataverse
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April 2, 2024 Notes Mark Roth on Memento
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March 2024 canceled due to community meeting
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February 6, 2024 Notes Jorrit Poelen on how Preston, a biodiversity dataset tracker, was recently integrated with Dataverse
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January 9, 2024 Notes. Slides. Kelly Doonan-Reed, a Product Manager at ICPSR, will be presenting Turbo Curator, a data input preparation application that combines the best aspects of software and human curation. View video recording.
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December 12, 2023 Notes. Slides. Jan Range, Research Data Software Engineer with the University of Stuttgart, will be presenting pyDataverse-Generator, an automated approach using the OpenAPI specification to dynamically generate pyDataverse's core including URL endpoints, parameters, payload, and response schemes. View video ecording.
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November 14, 2023 Notes Kyle A Logue, a Senior Engineering Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation will present his tool for downloading large files from Dataverse (code on GitHub), Phil Durbin will talk about using IntelliJ to speed up the build-and-redeployment cycle during development
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October 17, 2023 Notes Julian Gautier spoke about an update to a UX research resource, "Dataset metadata of known Dataverse installations", and gave an update on the planned UX Working Group. The KU Leuven LIBIS team demoed and discussed their work on RO-Crate previewers and exports. View slides and video recording.
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September 19, 2023 Notes Miguel Silva on adding functionality to receive live, real-time, experimental data directly from a smart data acquisition device into Dataverse.
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August 22, 2023 Notes Slava Tykhonov on Dataverse datasets as graph ingested in triple store and queryable with SPARQL endpoint.
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(August 8 probably no meeting as we trying to switch to every 4 weeks)
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July 25, 2023 Notes Erwan Béguin from INRAE on connectors between Dataverse and several research tools such as JupyterHub and D4science (details)
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July 11, 2023 Notes Thomas van Erven from DANS on Semantic Enrichment using Dockerized Services
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(June 27 canceled)
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June 13, 2023 Notes Braga braindump
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May 30, 2023 Notes (Rok Roškar on Renku, an open-source knowledge infrastructure for collaborative and reproducible data science)
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May 2, 2023 Notes (demo of Pooch)
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April 18, 2023 Notes: (Containerization Working Group proposal)
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April 4, 2023 Notes (Datapaper template generation from a Dataverse DOI by Dimitri Szabo, NetCDF/HDF5 Design Doc)
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March 21, 2023 Notes (containerization working group)
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March 7, 2023 Notes (demo of annotations by Sebastian Karcher)
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February 7, 2023 Notes (demo of integration dashboard from KU Leuven)
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(Dec. 27 canceled. Happy holidays!)
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(October 18, 2022 call canceled due to JavaOne.)
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August 23, 2022 Notes (demo of creating datasets with fewer required fields)
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(Three calls canceled due to Harvard holidays, #dataverse2022, and staff vacation)
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May 17, 2022 Notes (demo of "Automated Dataverse Metrics Reports")
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January 11, 2022 Notes | January 11, 2022 Recording (Community Call 1)
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November 30, 2021 Notes | November 30, 2021 Recording (Community Call 2)
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April 20, 2021 Notes | April 20, 2021 Recording (Community Call 2)
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April 6, 2021 Notes | April 6, 2021 Recording (Community Call 2)
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March 9, 2021 Notes | March 9, 2021 Recording (Community Call 2)
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February 23, 2021 Notes | February 23, 2021 Recording (Community Call 2)
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February 9, 2021 Notes | February 9, 2021 Recording (Community Call 2)
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November 7, 2017 Notes
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May 24, 2016 Notes (Community Meeting Updates)
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May 10, 2016 Notes (Handles Support Working Group)
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April 26, 2016 Notes (Internationalization Working Group)
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April 12, 2016 Notes (Metadata Harvest / Export Working Group)