A lighter update this cycle — no major launches, but plenty happening under the hood and some exciting things on the horizon. Here's what's worth knowing 👇

🔧 Collector & Enhancement Updates

We've shipped a range of collector updates and minor enhancements over the past two months. For the full details, check out the release notes at docs.data.world.

💫 Coming Soon

A few things we're excited to bring your way very soon:

• Sample Data Preview — preview representative sample rows directly on a catalog resource, so consumers can evaluate relevance and quality during discovery without requesting access upfront. For organizations using Sensitive Data Classification, sensitive values are masked in the preview — keeping data protected while you open up discoverability.
• MCP Server — connect your favorite AI tools and agents, like Claude, Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible clients, directly to your catalog through the Model Context Protocol. Once connected, you can run search, discovery, and enrichment actions through natural language, all powered by your existing catalog content.
• Access Request Approver Visibility — see who's responsible for reviewing an access request, with a direct link to the approver group surfaced on the request itself and in the task view. No more wondering where a request stands or who to contact — just less back-and-forth.

💙 A Heartfelt Note: Retiring the Open Data Community

For the last decade, we've been proud to build and operate the world's largest resource for open data, alongside a community of people who believed data should be open, shared, and collaborative. That mission has always been at the heart of who we are.

With our journey now continuing as part of ServiceNow, we've made the difficult decision to retire the data.world Open Data Community on July 11, 2026. For the abundance of clarity, this does not impact our enterprise data catalog and governance platform customers, only the open data community. We encourage open data users to download their data for safekeeping before then.

To everyone who contributed, shared, and built with us over these ten years — thank you. You made open data abundant, and you made this community what it was. 💙