Vera Clemens (Feb 04 2026 at 13:02): Vera Clemens (Feb 04 2026 at 13:02):Does Dataverse consider contact e-mail adresses of collections and datasets to be public or private info?
I am asking because they are hidden in the UI (1. dataset metadata tab doesn't show the address, 2. the contact forms hide the "To" address as well):
But they are both exposed by the API to anybody:
This inconsistency has me wondering whether the API behaviour is intentional. What are your thoughts on this? Do users expect and consent to their contact e-mail addresses being made public when they enter them?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Feb 04 2026 at 14:59):Does this help?
"Out of the box, your Dataverse installation will list email addresses of the contacts for datasets when users visit a dataset page and click the “Export Metadata” button. Additionally, out of the box, the Dataverse installation will list email addresses of Dataverse collection contacts via API (see View a Dataverse Collection in the Native API section of the API Guide). If you would like to exclude these email addresses from export, set :ExcludeEmailFromExport to true." -- https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.9/installation/config.html#email-privacy
Vera Clemens (Feb 04 2026 at 15:01):Ooh interesting! I suppose that answers it. Thanks!
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