diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index e68596830..e0b295425 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Please follow the established format:
 
 - Improve `kedro viz build` usage documentation (#2126)
 - Fix unserializable parameters value (#2122)
+- Display full dataset type with library prefix in metadata panel (#2136)
 
 
 # Release 10.0.0
diff --git a/src/components/metadata/metadata.js b/src/components/metadata/metadata.js
index 49241e000..5b0ed7080 100644
--- a/src/components/metadata/metadata.js
+++ b/src/components/metadata/metadata.js
@@ -121,10 +121,17 @@ const MetaData = ({
 
   const shortenDatasetType = (value) => {
     const isList = Array.isArray(value);
+    // Extract the library (first part) and the dataset type (last part)
+    const getQualifier = (val) => {
+      if (typeof val === 'string' && val.includes('.')) {
+        const parts = val.split('.');
+        return `${parts[0]}.${parts.pop()}`;
+      }
+      // If val is not a string or does not include a dot return as is
+      return val;
+    };
 
-    return isList
-      ? value.map((val) => val.split('.').pop())
-      : value?.split('.').pop();
+    return isList ? value.map(getQualifier) : getQualifier(value);
   };
 
   return (
diff --git a/src/components/metadata/metadata.test.js b/src/components/metadata/metadata.test.js
index 12ab05d39..849d8cc3e 100644
--- a/src/components/metadata/metadata.test.js
+++ b/src/components/metadata/metadata.test.js
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ describe('MetaData', () => {
         mockMetadata: nodeData,
       });
       const row = rowByLabel(wrapper, 'Dataset Type:');
-      expect(textOf(rowValue(row))).toEqual(['CSVDataset']);
+      expect(textOf(rowValue(row))).toEqual(['pandas.CSVDataset']);
     });
 
     it('shows the node filepath', () => {
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ describe('MetaData', () => {
           mockMetadata: nodeTranscodedData,
         });
         const row = rowByLabel(wrapper, 'Original Type:');
-        expect(textOf(rowValue(row))).toEqual(['SparkDataset']);
+        expect(textOf(rowValue(row))).toEqual(['spark.SparkDataset']);
       });
 
       it('shows the node transcoded type', () => {
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ describe('MetaData', () => {
           mockMetadata: nodeTranscodedData,
         });
         const row = rowByLabel(wrapper, 'Transcoded Types:');
-        expect(textOf(rowValue(row))).toEqual(['ParquetDataset']);
+        expect(textOf(rowValue(row))).toEqual(['pandas.ParquetDataset']);
       });
     });
     describe('Metrics dataset nodes', () => {