The October release of data.world brings a wide variety of new capabilities and improvements across the platform – read on to learn more about the GA of Databricks Publisher, new collectors for MongoDB and Alteryx, Okta support in SCIM, the GA of the improved search experience, and more!

Additionally, we highlight some changes made to the data.world Open Data Community to improve privacy and preserve the quality of open data and the user experience.

Databricks Publisher Premium Automation

We’re excited to announce the GA launch of the Databricks Publisher Premium Automation! This new feature allows users to seamlessly publish metadata from data.world to Databricks, simplifying the process of managing and synchronizing key data attributes. Specifically, users can now automatically publish table and column descriptions from data.world to Databricks and push selected metadata attributes as Databricks tags. Whether you prefer manual updates or fully automated syncing, this automation ensures that metadata remains consistent between platforms, reducing manual effort and improving data integrity. With data.world now acting as the source of truth, your metadata stays up-to-date across systems effortlessly.

For more information, see the product documentation.

New MongoDB and Alteryx Collectors

This month, we’re excited to announce new MongoDB and Alteryx Collectors, both available in Private Preview. If you’re interested in early access to either of these new collectors, please reach out to your Customer Service Director.

MongoDB Collector

The MongoDB Collector catalogs metadata from MongoDB, helping maintain a comprehensive inventory of MongoDB assets, facilitating better governance, discovery, and utilization of data across your organization.

This collector harvests metadata for MongoDB databases, collections, views, indexes and more.

An example collection from MongoDB

Alteryx Collector

The Alteryx Collector catalogs metadata from Alteryx, helping maintain a comprehensive inventory of Alteryx assets, facilitating better governance, discovery, and utilization of data across your organization.

This collector harvests metadata for workflows, workflow nodes, workflow jobs, connections, schedules and more.

An example collection from Alteryx

Improved lineage for SQL Server

The SQL Server Collector now collects additional lineage relationships not previously captured through SQL parsing using built-in SQL Server functions that describe relationships between objects (such as, in some cases, the columns and tables referenced by views or stored procedures).

For more information and detail, see the description of lineage collected by the SQL Server Collector in the product documentation.

Support for Okta in SCIM

The active Private Preview of SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) now additionally supports Okta (in addition to Microsoft Entra ID), allowing customers who use Okta as their enterprise identity provider to have automated management of users and groups in data.world.

If you are interested in being part of the SCIM Private Preview, or just want to learn more, please reach out to your Customer Service Director.

Webhook Authorization enhancement

Webhooks now support an optional authorization key parameter to help consuming applications verify the origin and permissions for an incoming webhook. Learn more

Collection Details in Technical Reference

By popular request, the Technical Reference page for catalog resources now includes details about the collections the resource belongs to. Learn more

Relative Time Advanced Search Syntax

Create powerful saved searches for resources by updated and created dates using three new relative time options:

• `created:today` 
• `updated:yesterday`
• `created:{last 30 days}`

See the product documentation on creating advanced searches to learn more.

UX Improvements

Adding the new search experience to Organizations: Our new search experience has been a big hit with users. It’s faster, cleaner, and provides more advanced features in the UI. We've fully retired the classic experience and brought the new search features to the Resources, Glossary and Collection landing pages.

Coming Soon! Advanced relationship editing: We're adding new improvements that make it easier to find the right resources and add or remove more than one relationship at a time.

Coming Soon! More look-and-feel updates: Next up in our work to update and modernize our UI, we'll be swapping the old default avatars to a newer color palette and default avatar design that utilizes letters. This change will also provide a more accessible experience as it gives users the ability to distinguish users and organizations using letters.

Changes to data.world Open Data Community

data.world Open Data Community profiles, datasets, and projects now behind a login wall: To better control the privacy of our users and to protect the effectiveness of the content on our active Open Data Community, we have made the decision to restrict access to profiles, datasets, and projects to account holders. It is always free to join our open data community. 

data.world Open Data Community commenting restrictions: Commenting is now restricted to contributors on datasets and projects in the data.world Open Data Community. Organizations can enable comments on their public datasets through organization settings. This feature is not available or enforced for Enterprise customers on private instance or VPC deployments.