Data.world
data.world is a modern data catalog platform. It was acquired by ServiceNow on 2025-07-07.[1]
Open Data Community
| data.world Open Data Community | |
| URL | https://data.world/company/open-community/ |
| Status | Closing |
| Archiving status | In progress... |
| Archiving type | DPoS, ArchiveBot |
| Project source | dataworld-grab |
| Project tracker | dataworld |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
| Project lead | Arkiver |
| Data[how to use] | job:46j1i job:akc8s job:2bums |
For the public, data.world operated as a open data community. Anyone can register an account and host, analyze, and collaborate on public datasets. Many of them pushed directly from data.gov.
Shutdown
The shutdown was announced on 2026-6-8, where it will be shutdown on 2026-07-11 in favor of the "enterprise data catalog and governance platform customers".[2]
💙 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. 💙
The deadline was later changed to 2026-07-13.[3][4]
Archival efforts
This is rough; focusing on capturing content and status not this page; feel free to fix.
mindrecent's archival efforts
Contact
Ping mindrecent on #archiveteam-bs. I will need disk space and bandwidth. If you've got the ability to run python scripts on the same machine, all the better.
Status
Note: people are still creating new datasets as of 7/4 so will try to backfill. - pulled list of publically available dataset names - pulling lists of files per dataset (687 GB thus far) - to-pull files - to-pull datasets
Links
https://www.tumblr.com/therapatical/820229704760033280
counts
634887 files, 162719 datasets
References
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bretthurt_it-has-been-one-year-since-servicenow-announced-activity-7458376672858427392-BHrh
- ↑ https://whatsnew.data.world/data.world-may-and-june-product-update-3wPmrm[IA•Wcite•.today]
- ↑ https://www.tumblr.com/therapatical/820229704760033280[IA•Wcite•.today]
- ↑ https://docs.data.world/en/408855-how-to-export-and-download-your-data.html[IA•Wcite•.today]