Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 06 2025 at 18:49): Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 06 2025 at 18:49):@Slava Tykhonov just announced Dataverse support for MCP (Model Context Protocol)!
MCP is a protocol that allows AI clients to talk to APIs. It was announced only in late November but lots of implementations are coming out. I've seen listings of 15,000 different servers, everything from GitHub to YouTube to Spotify, to whatever. If it has an API, it might have an MCP server already.
The Dataverse MCP server was written by Slava and the code and docs can be found at https://github.com/gdcc/mcp-dataverse
Slava is also hosting a public server at https://mcp.dataverse.org that we can all use. See the docs above for how to configure Claude Desktop, Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or Zed with it! (Or you can run the MCP server locally if you wish.)
Slava gave a demo at tech hours this week which you are welcome to watch.
Please kick the tires and give some feedback! And buy Slava a beer if you see him! :beers:
Oliver Bertuch (Jun 06 2025 at 19:27):I don't see it at https://mcp.so/explore?q=dataverse :see_no_evil:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 06 2025 at 19:30):I was kind of thinking we add it to the official registry. https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry as discussed at https://github.com/orgs/modelcontextprotocol/discussions/159
But I don't think it's ready yet.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 23 2025 at 19:41):We're listing MCP in the new AI Guide. See #docs > AI Guide.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 01 2025 at 17:50):Hat tip to @Slava Tykhonov for pointing out that https://mlcommons.org/2025/10/croissant-mcp/ links to https://github.com/gdcc/mcp-dataverse !
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 07 2025 at 15:13):Hat tip to @Juan Pablo Tosca Villanueva for finding https://www.utcp.io
Check out https://www.utcp.io/utcp-vs-mcp
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 04 2025 at 19:47):Another MCP server: https://github.com/hunrenai4impact/dataverse-project-mcp
Balázs Pataki (Nov 05 2025 at 09:49):Philip Durbin 🚀 said:
Another MCP server: https://github.com/hunrenai4impact/dataverse-project-mcp
Please consider this just a trial, which soon can be considered obsolete once the new version of pyDataverse is released with support for easy implementation of custom MCP servers for Dataverse.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 05 2025 at 13:36):Thanks for the heads up. I opened PR #11953 to add it to the AI Guide but I guess that was a bit premature. Closed!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 05 2025 at 13:37):Please feel free to put this on the agenda for a future pyDataverse meeting! Or just mention it in #python > meetings or start a new topic in #python.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 13 2025 at 18:33):RSpace has an MCP server: https://github.com/rspace-os/rspace-mcp
I heard about it here: #community > Dataverse in the next RSpace open-source office hour
Tilo Mathes (Nov 14 2025 at 07:48):Philip Durbin 🚀 said:
RSpace has an MCP server: https://github.com/rspace-os/rspace-mcp
Happy to answer any questions about it. It's also pretty much a prototype but you can use it in very creative ways already. Feel free to reach out with questions or suggestions.
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