Roadmap


Current

What we work on now

Projects
Launch of Software Heritage integration.

We will launch the SWH integration on Zenodo during summer 2024.

Planned October 2024

Projects
EU Open Research Repository

The EU Open Research Repository will exit the pilot phase during autumn 2024. This will include improved browse capabilities and onboarding of EU-funded projects.

Planned September 2024

Development
Vocabularies (ROR, ORCID, MeSH)

We will be working on performing regular updates of some of our backend vocabularies such as ROR (funders/affiliations), ORCID (names) and subject vocabularies (EuroSciVoc, Medical Subject Headings).

Planned July 2024

Near-term

What we plan working on next

Projects
Automated detection of EU-funded records

We will be working on a workflow for automatic detection and quality assurance of EU-funded records so that they can be included into the EU Open Research Repository.

Planned release in December 2024

Development
Spam fighting improvements

We will be implementing several new spam mitigation measures to keep up with new changes in methods by spammers.

Planned November 2024

Development
FAIR improvements

We will be improving overall FAIRness of Zenodo. This will also include support for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) as well as some smaller improvements for marine science.

Planned December 2024

Future

What we investigate

Projects
EU Open Research Repository

The EU Open Research Repository will be expanded with improved curation capabilities. Learn more about the planned features in HORIZON-ZEN FAIR-enabling deposit workflow design

Planned release in March 2025

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Last update: October 14, 2024

Completed


2024

Development
Sharing with users

We will add support for sharing records and drafts with users. See docs.

Development
Software improvements and Software Heritage integration

As part of the FAIRCORE4EOSC project, we will be improving the support for software source code types in Zenodo, as well as integrate Zenodo with Software Heritage

Improvements are right now being tested on sandbox.zenodo.org

Development
Branded communities (part 1)

As part of HORIZON-ZEN, we'll add support for custom visual identity on communities. The feature will only be available for specific communities.

Launched on EU Open Research Repository

Projects
EU Open Research Repository

The EU Open Research Repository will be expanded to allow projects to more easily sign up.

Completed June 2024.

Development
IIIF & Annotations

Support for storing and displaying WADM-based annotations for PDFs and images for the Biodiversity Literature Repository. Part of the work will focus on improving performance of the IIIF APIs so that we can make image Zoom generally available.

Planned July 2024.

Projects
BiCIKL

As part of the BiCIKL project, provide the infrastructure to support the FAIR preservation of liberated data and next-generation semantic publishing in biodiversity.

2023

DevOps
Migration to OpenSearch

Migrate our ElasticSearch infrastructure to OpenSearch.

Planned March 2023

Development
Zenodo on InvenioRDM

We are migrating Zenodo's underlying technical platform to InvenioRDM. Follow the progress on https://zenodo-rdm.web.cern.ch as well as the InvenioRDM Roadmap

Completed October 13, 2023

Projects
HORIZON-ZEN kick-off

We are kicking off a new EU-funded project that over the coming 2 years will adding multiple new features to communities such as branding capabilities, subcommunities, basic automated curation checks, and integrate third-party FAIR assessment tools directly in the Zenodo interface.

Development
Webhooks

Webhook notifications support for community events.

Cancelled/postponed

2022

Development
Custom metadata

Allowing user to enhance uploads with their domain-specific vocabulary metadata.

DevOps
Spam fighting improvements

Introduce safe listing of users and a process to safe list new users and block publishing from identified spammer domains.

Development
Improved funding metadata

Being able to specify funding information for uploads on the funder level, or fill-in custom funding metadata.

Development
ZenodoRDM: Legacy APIs

Add basic support for existing Zenodo legacy APIs in InvenioRDM and perform the first initial data migration tests.

Development
ZenodoRDM Demo Site

Setup a Zenodo-themed instance of InvenioRDM and make it publicly available so that users can follow progress on the move to InvenioRDM.

Available on https://zenodo-rdm.web.cern.ch

Development
Workflows type

Introduce a new Workflow upload type and integrate with REANA.

2021

Development
EOSC AAI

Integrate with OpenAIRE AAI to allow researchers to sign-in via their institution.

Development
ORCiD integration

Allowing users in the upload form to search and auto-fill author names coming from ORCiD's database.

Development
Stability improvements to GitHub integration

Automatic retries for failed GitHub releases, better documentation on .zenodo.json, and overall easier troubleshooting.

DevOps
Upgrade to PostgreSQL v12

In collaboration with the DBoD team at CERN, upgrade our databases to PostgreSQL v12.

Development
Community record requests

Introduce a review workflow for adding records to communities.

Projects
300k treatments

Import a dataset of 300.000 biodiversity treatments records into Zenodo in collaboration with Plazi and Pensoft via an Arcadia Fund project.

2020

Projects
Zenodo-Dryad integration

Integration of Zenodo into the Dryad submission process.

Development
Thumbnails

Produce thumbnails via IIIF APIs with proper caching.

Development
New resource types

Support for two new resource types: Data Management Plan, Annotation Collection

Development
DCAT export format

Support for the DCAT export format via the DataCite XML to DCAT XSLT.

2019

Development
Citations

Improve the regular import of citations from NASA ADS, OpenAIRE ScholExplorer, CrossRef and EuropePMC.

DevOps
Logging infrastructure

Centralise logging of web server access logs into Elasticsearch cluster.

Development
New metadata fields

Beta support for geospatial, temporal and method metadata in the REST API (display and searching to come later).

DevOps
Infrastructure improvements

Migrate our Elasticsearch cluster to v7 on CERN's Elasticsearch On Demand service.

Development
Minor improvements to GitHub integration

Minor optimizations in the release processing workflow.