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@mjanez mjanez commented Feb 27, 2026

Please confirm this pull request meets the following requirements:

Which change are you proposing?

  • Suggesting edits to an existing topic or collection
  • Curating a new topic or collection
  • Something that does not neatly fit into the binary options above

Curating a new topic or collection

  • I've formatted my changes as a new folder directory, named for the topic or collection as it appears in the URL on GitHub (e.g. https://github.com/topics/[NAME] or https://github.com/collections/[NAME])
  • My folder contains a *.png image (if applicable) and index.md
  • All required fields in my index.md conform to the Style Guide and API docs: https://github.com/github/explore/tree/main/docs

Data Spaces are a federated, sovereign data ecosystems. Global Google Trends data from the last 5 years shows a massive spike in developer interest, with searches for "data spaces" up 350% and the "dataspace" alias up 180%. Furthermore, rising queries for specific technical implementations like the "eclipse dataspace connector" and "gaia-x" prove this is no longer just a theoretical concept but an active. The aim of including as topic in GitHub is to help developers find and collaborate on these components and to grow the open-source ecosystem.

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Pull request overview

Adds a new curated Explore topic for “data-space” to help categorize and surface repositories related to sovereign/federated data ecosystems.

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  • Introduces new topic definition with aliases, related topics, short description, and Wikipedia link.
  • Adds the topic page body content describing the concept and its key properties.

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There are only 6 repos with this topic and 30 with dataspace but thanks for the contribution

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