Roadmap: The Dataverse Project

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Strategic Goals

The Strategic Goals of the Dataverse Project are to:

  • Grow the Dataverse community
  • Empower the open source community to explore and implement new Dataverse applications, tools, and services
  • Develop the capability to handle sensitive data and big data
  • Expand data and metadata features for existing and new disciplines
  • Expand archival and preservation features
  • Increase interoperability through the implementation of standards
  • Increase contributions from the open source development community
  • Improve the Dataverse user experience

Roadmap

The Dataverse UI is being redesigned as a single-page application (SPA) in which internal and external Dataverse services will be delivered solely through improved APIs. This change will improve UI responsiveness and empower the Dataverse community to develop their own UIs and applications using extended Dataverse API endpoints. 

Read more about our roadmap for the Dataverse infrastructure redesign in: Restructuring the Dataverse UI as a Single-Page Application.

Current and Past Projects

Project Board

Our project board on GitHub is open for public review and comment. This is where we track development and QA activities. Often these items are discussed during community calls, but please feel free to give feedback and join our community through any channel.

Recent Releases

  • 6.1 Updates include new guestbook at request and collection-level storage quotas features, improved Globus support, support for JSON validation of datasets prior to creation, new or improved API endpoints, and improvements to OpenID Connect (OIDC) and Solr.
  • 6.0 This is a platform upgrade release. Payara, Solr, and Java have been upgraded. No features have been added to the Dataverse software itself. Only a handful of bugs were fixed.
  • 5.14  Improved indexing performance, MDC (Make Data Count) and legacy access count support, Signposting for Dataverse, Permalinks support, Datasets API extended 2023/08/04
  • 5.13 Schema.org Improvements, DVWebloader, NetCDF/HDF5 support, Geospatial Search, CodeMeta 2/14/23
  • 5.12.1 Bug Fixes 11/7/22
  • 5.12 Globus, Remote File Storage, Computational Workflows, Linked Data Notifications (LDN) 10/5/22
  • 5.11.1 Hotfix Release 8/2/22
  • 5.11 Terms for Restricted Files, Muting Notifications 6/13/22
  • 5.10.1 Bug Fixes 4/6/2022
  • 5.10 Multiple License Support 3/18/2022
  • 5.9 System Optimizations 12/9/2021
  • 5.8 Embargo 11/5/2021
  • 5.7 External Vocabulary Integration 10/13/2021
  • 5.6  Support for Double Blind Review, Migration APIs, Guestbook Responses API 8/4/2021
  • 5.5  Auxiliary Files Accessible through the UI, Performance Enhancements 5/19/2021
  • 5.4 Key Technology Upgrades, New File Access API, Deactivate Users API, 4/5/2021
  • 5.3 Auxiliary Files to Support Differentially Private Metadata Deposit, Updated Banner Options 12/10/2020 
  • 5.2 Continued Dataset and File Redesign, Google Cloud Archiver Integration 11/9/2020
  • 5.1 and 5.1.1 >5 GB Upload to AWS S3, Additional Store Options for Administrators, Performance Enhancements 10/8/2020
  • 5.0 Continued Dataset and File Redesign, Payara Upgrade, Download Dataset 8/18/2020
  • 4.20 Multiple S3 Stores, Direct S3 Upload 4/1/2020
  • 4.19 OIDC Connect, Python Installer 1/22/2020
  • 4.18 File Preview, Microsoft Login 11/14/2019
  • 4.17 Dataset Level Explore Tools, Performance Enhancements 10/3/2019
  • 4.16 Metrics Redesign and Make Data Count Support, HTML Codebook Exports, Harvesting Improvements 8/28/2019 
  • 4.15.1  Performance Enhancements, Variable Metadata Edit APIs 7/10/2019
  • 4.15 Sorting and Filtering Files in a Dataset, Better Recognition and Categorization of Files 6/14/2019
  • 4.14 OpenAIRE-compliant exports, expanded analytics options 5/10/2019
  • 4.13 File Hierarchy Support, File Metadata Edit APIs 4/22/2019