Zenodo Newsletter October 2024
News
EU Open Research Repository Moves to Production
In March 2024, the EU and CERN officially launched the EU Open Research Repository on Zenodo in a pilot phase, and since then, it has rapidly gained momentum. Over the past several months, we have successfully onboarded 130 EU-funded projects as EU projects communities - a feature that provides projects an easy go-to solution for sharing and preserving the research outputs from their projects. About 23% of all EU-funded projects (FP7, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe) during the past 10 years have a research output on Zenodo amounting to 11.000 different grants.
Win the 2024 Dataworks! $100,000 Grand Prize by reusing Zenodo data
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invite you to submit your data reuse project proposal that demonstrates the power of data reuse to advance human health. The 2024 DataWorks! Prize is a collaboration with the seven generalist repositories (including Zenodo) participating in the NIH-funded Generalist Repositories Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) and will focus on best practices in data reuse and secondary analysis that advance human health.
Software Heritage integration
Zenodo and Software Heritage, through the EU-funded FAIRCORE4EOSC project, have launched a new integration that ensures that software source code deposited in Zenodo is automatically archived in Software Heritage. It implements the recommendations from the EOSC Scholarly Infrastructures for Research Software.
Introducing the New Zoom Feature for Images on Zenodo
We are thrilled to introduce a new zoom feature for images on Zenodo, enhancing your ability to explore our vast collection of nearly 1 million images. This includes detailed images from various fields, such as biodiversity. With this new feature, you can seamlessly zoom in and out of images, even those with very large dimensions.
This functionality is powered by the IIIF API (International Image Interoperability Framework) and relies on three robust open-source tools: Mirador for previewing images, IIPServer for fast image serving and VIPS image processing software to generate the different zoom-levels of the images in a format called pyramid tiled TIFFs. These technologies work together to provide an enhanced viewing experience, making it easier for researchers, scholars, and enthusiasts to examine intricate details within images.
Examples:
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11307027 - High resolution microsection images for: Common juniper, the oldest living organism across the tundra biome and the European continent.
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5796264 - Mitochondrial Network Configuration Influences Sarcomere and Myosin Filament Structure in Striated Muscles
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3182859 - Herbarium image of Symphoricarpos albus from Meise Botanic Garden in Belgium
The new image zoom and annotations feature were supported by the Arcadia Foundation as part of the Biodiversity Literature Repository project with Plazi and Data Futures.
Improved machine accessibility - FAIR Signposting
We have improved the machine accessibility of Zenodo by implementing FAIR Signposting level 2 support. A key problem for a machine agent which arrives to a Zenodo record such as https://zenodo.org/records/11105430 is to easily understand that the persistent identifier for the digital object is https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11105430, and where is machine-readable metadata as well as the digital files. The record landing pages are made for humans and while a machine could try to parse and understand the pages it becomes a very difficult problem once you want the machine agent to access many different repositories. FAIR Signposting solves this issue by providing the machine agent a simple consistent way among repositories to find the identifiers, metadata and files of a digital object. Today, Zenodo provides machine-readable metadata in the many different formats such as DCAT, JSON-LD, MARCXML, Citation Styles Language, DataCite XML/JSON, BibTex, DublinCore and Codemeta.
The feature was developed with support from the US National Institutes of Health as part of the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) where Northwestern University and CERN have partnered to represent Zenodo.
Short updates
- Zenodo participated in the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) yearly meeting in Chicago. The initiative is funded by US National Institutes of Health with the mission to establish a common set of cohesive and consistent capabilities, services, metrics, and social infrastructure across generalist repositories (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, OSF, Mendeley Data, Vivli and Zenodo) to support biomedical researchers. Learn more about GREI on https://datascience.nih.gov/data-ecosystem/generalist-repository-ecosystem-initiative and https://zenodo.org/communities/grei/.
Webinars/events
- Oct 21-23: EOSC Symposium 2024
- Nov 7: EnhanceR Symposium 2024
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