diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6404689..164f3ba 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This change
 - add classes to elements that have styling applied to faciliate custom styles (#102)
 
 
-
 ## [2-beta9] - 2024-05-18
 - extended the `kind/fn` semantics to a map spec
 
diff --git a/src/scicloj/clay/v2/item.clj b/src/scicloj/clay/v2/item.clj
index 40a20a5..e2973c5 100644
--- a/src/scicloj/clay/v2/item.clj
+++ b/src/scicloj/clay/v2/item.clj
@@ -323,3 +323,11 @@
               "Highcharts.chart(document.currentScript.parentElement, %s);"
               (charred/write-json-str value))]]
    :deps [:highcharts]})
+
+(defn dataset [{:as context
+                :keys [value]}]
+  (-> value
+      println
+      with-out-str
+      md
+      (merge {:item-class "clay-dataset"})))
diff --git a/src/scicloj/clay/v2/prepare.clj b/src/scicloj/clay/v2/prepare.clj
index d9938e9..32489b4 100644
--- a/src/scicloj/clay/v2/prepare.clj
+++ b/src/scicloj/clay/v2/prepare.clj
@@ -241,14 +241,9 @@
    (->> codes
         item/source-clojure)))
 
-(add-preparer-from-value-fn!
+(add-preparer!
  :kind/dataset
- (fn [v]
-   (-> v
-       println
-       with-out-str
-       item/md
-       (merge {:item-class "clay-dataset"}))))
+ #'item/dataset)
 
 (add-preparer-from-value-fn!
  :kind/smile-model