This month’s release is all about making data discovery, collaboration, and governance even more seamless. From expanding how teams can access and interact with data, to improving visibility into adoption and governance, these updates continue to bring the data.world platform closer to where you work.
🔥 What’s New?
Archie Chat for Slack (General Availability)
Meet Archie where your team collaborates most. With Archie Chat for Slack, you can:
- Chat with your metadata and data.world product documentation (DocsBot) directly in Slack
- Get answers to data questions without leaving your workspace
- Enable teams to discover and use trusted data in the flow of work
Now in General Availability, this makes Slack a powerful extension of your data.world experience. Learn more in our documentation.
Governance Dashboards (General Availability)
Governance just became more accessible. With Governance Dashboards now available within your Data Catalog Team analytics org, you can:
- Provide visibility without requiring instance admin permissions
- Empower governance admins (and anyone else) with insights
- Strengthen trust and transparency across your data ecosystem
This update ensures governance insights are both easy to access and safely shared. Learn more in our documentation.
OpenAPI 3 Collector (Public Preview)
The OpenAPI 3 collector adds support for API specifications defined in versions 3.x of the OpenAPI standard. It also adds support for specifications defined in json or yaml format, support for harvesting metadata from multiple specification files at once (including from a directory of files), and support for obtaining specifications from a Github repository. Learn more in our documentation.
Revamped Sensitive Data Discovery (Public Preview)
For owners of data.world's Sensitive Data Discovery or Governance Premium add-ons, our revamped classification capability and architecture has arrived. This update applies to data.world relational database collectors (Postgres, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake, Databricks, Teradata, Oracle, Redshift, Denodo, DB2, and Netezza) supporting classification of a sample of data from each table's columns into "sensitive data" categories. The classification functionality is powered by machine learning capabilities from our partner PrivateAI, and is built in to data.world's hosted metadata collection service, or you can run the PrivateAI service in your own environment. This is all part of making data.world simpler and smarter for data governance and compliance. Learn more in our documentation.
Marketplace & Navigation Expanded Preview (Private Preview)
Finding and sharing the right data products just got easier. The new Marketplace & Navigation experience enables you to:
- Build and publish Data Products and Domains
- Explore and request access through a unified Marketplace
- Organize data products by Domains and Marketplace Sections
- Expand your reach beyond technical users to business consumers
This feature is currently in Private Preview (with approval) and will open to Public Preview on August 31. Learn more in our documentation.
Open Data Quality API (Private Preview)
This new API provides ability to integrate real-time data quality metadata, metrics, and incidents with data.world in partnership with leading data quality and observability solutions, as well as custom data quality tools. Learn more in our documentation.
💫 What’s Improved?
Bulk Editing: Edit Table Columns with Ease
Introducing a column-cart: easily select the columns across multiple tables, apply bulk metadata updates, move them between collections, and complete mass edits fast and efficiently. Learn more in our documentation.
🔮 What’s Next?
Marketplace (Public Preview)
Coming on August 31: a sleek, ecommerce-style Data Marketplace for business users to search, discover, and request access to key data products. Want early access to this preview? Contact your customer success team! Learn more in our documentation.
With this August release, data.world continues to push forward on our mission to make data discovery, collaboration, and governance more inclusive and impactful. Whether you’re exploring new Data Products in the Marketplace, chatting with Archie in Slack, or keeping closer tabs on adoption and governance, these updates are designed to meet you where you work.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the months ahead!