From June 10–13, representatives from the EOSC EDEN project joined global peers at the 2025 Dataverse Community Meeting (DCM2025), hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With this year’s theme, “Expanding the Dataverse: Advancing Innovation, Building Community, Establishing Legacy,” the event brought together researchers, developers, repository managers, data stewards, and open science advocates worldwide.
The conference showcased the growing impact of the Dataverse Community—not only through technical enhancements and integrations of the software, but also through well-considered institutional data stewardship that leverages Dataverse for building sustainable, open, and reproducible open science infrastructures. DCM2025 also reflected on the broadening reach of Dataverse, which now serves an expanding range of disciplines, data types, institutions, and use cases globally. From its open-source foundations, Dataverse continues to push boundaries in data preservation, management, and community-driven development.
For EOSC EDEN and FIDELIS, the event provided a valuable opportunity to exchange insights. Our participation reinforced our commitment to advancing digital preservation and strengthening sustainable research infrastructure by fostering a European network of trustworthy data repositories.
- Collaboration for Innovation. The success of frameworks, models, and tools from EOSC EDEN depends on collaboration with open-source software communities like Dataverse.
- Dataverse as a Backbone. European Dataverse community members actively contribute to FIDELIS and EOSC EDEN, leveraging Dataverse to improve long-term preservation best practices and to establish Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs).
- Enhanced Curation Workflows. Dataverse’s review phase supports quality control for data publication. EOSC EDEN’s focus on curation networks and workflows aligns with Dataverse’s capabilities, offering opportunities to expand and improve long-term preservation workflows.
- Interoperability and Standards. EOSC EDEN’s future registry of repositories, LTP services, and tools will benefit from Dataverse’s adoption of standards like Signposting, FAIRiCat, and BagIt. These integrations strengthen Dataverse’s position as a FAIR-enabling platform.
- Upskilling and Harmonization. FIDELIS’s training and support programs for TDRs can directly benefit Dataverse repository managers and curators, fostering harmonization and interoperability across repositories.
- Future-Proofing Repositories. By aligning with the goals of FIDELIS and EOSC EDEN, Dataverse ensures its community remains at the forefront of open science and digital preservation efforts in Europe and beyond.
As part of the program, Philipp Conzett and Dieuwertje Bloemen presented a joint poster on behalf of the EOSC EDEN and FIDELIS projects, sharing our efforts to enhance metadata standards, interoperability, and repository services in support of long-term research data management. This poster was a collaborative effort between the teams of EOSC EDEN and FIDELIS. It offers a concise summary of the projects’ goals and highlights their connection to the Dataverse community.