Task 9.3 Catch-all data pilot Services: Zenodo¶

Leader: CERN

Aim: Deliver data repository services that are capable of satisfying the needs of the Horizon2020 data pilot through provision of Zenodo.

• Any researcher without an appropriate community data repository should be able to rely on the Zenodo service to share and preserve any data from the EU funded programmes.
• Extend Zenodo to support the broad range of data publishing initiatives, making it an appropriate testbed for communities to try out these concepts.
• Data linking, data citation, and anonymized data, and the closely related services for software description and preservation.
• Develop connections with other data repositories for data export and exchange.
• Extended service to align with emerging norms for uniquely identifying researchers (ORCID), funders (FundRef) and other relevant entities.

Task Timeline (Including Deliverables & Milestones)¶

• Road maps:

• Zenodo development is planned 3-6 months in advance using 3-months road map.
• See https://github.com/zenodo/zenodo/milestones

• Sprints:

• The 3-months road map is divided into 14-days sprints, where each sprint is planned at the beginning of the sprint cycle.
• See https://github.com/zenodo/zenodo/milestones

• Release process:

• Zenodo is released (i.e. deployed) often and early (after each sprint) to ensure high speed in delivering new features/bug fixes.

Large flexibility is needed in the development process in order to ensure fast delivery of new features as well as align development with use case needs. Thus,

• Deliverables:

• M6, M18, M30: D9.3 Zenodo Specifications [CERN]
• Specifications are defined by our rolling 3-month road maps and the deliverables will be snapshot of these road maps.

• Milestones:

• M12, M24 M36: M9.3 Zenodo release [CERN]
• Releases will instead of actually releases simply be a report describing all features launched during the period and how they support our uses cases.

See full description of development process on http://zenodo.readthedocs.org/en/latest/projectlifecycle.html

Areas of priority (where to concentrate first)¶

Focus areas for the first year include:

• Common needs:

• Preservation model and backend data storage improvements
• Data Seal of Approval certification (with DANS)

• Use case clinical trial data:

• Confidential peer-review and restricted sharing.
• Policies and process documentation.
• Legal issues.

• Use case small libraries/conference proceedings/small journals:

• Branding of communities
• Sub-collections in communities
• Search improvements
• Authentication (eduGain)
• Persistent identification
• Multiple curators

• Use case research software developers:

• Engage in prototyping software citation and discoverability in astronomy with key stakeholders.

Partners for each use case have been identified.

Forseen Integration with other Work Packages and Tasks¶

• Task 4.4 Guidelines for Data providers and OpenAIRE service APIs

• Test-bed and Implementation of guidelines for publication and data archives.

• Task 7.1: Legal issues in context of the Open Research Data Pilot

• Identify legal issues related to sharing clinical trial data, and produce easy to read guides for end-users of Zenodo.

• Task 9.6: Data Anonymization Services

• Enable seamless deposit into Zenodo of the output data from the service.

• WP4 Training and support

• Help give Zenodo webinars
• Regular updates on Zenodo
• Reuse produced training material on Zenodo

Communication Strategy: when and how to raise awareness among consortium of updates in task¶

• Participation in bi-weekly technical meetings.
• Send road map (every 3 months)/sprint (every 14 day) updates to technical mailing list.
• Write newsletter articles.