FAIRCORE4EOSC - Core Components Supporting a FAIR EOSC

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Published May 30, 2025 | Version v1
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Deliverable D6.2 - Report on Research Software Archival APIs and Connectors

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • 2. ROR icon Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
  • 3. ROR icon Data Archiving and Networked Services
  • 4. ROR icon Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics
  • 5. ROR icon FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
  • 6. ROR icon OpenAIRE Non-Profit Civil Partnership
  • 7. ROR icon Athena Research and Innovation Center In Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies
  • 8. ROR icon National Research Council
  • 9. ROR icon National Infrastructures for Research and Technology - GRNET S.A

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
  • 2. ROR icon European Bioinformatics Institute
  • 3. ROR icon CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)
  • 4. ROR icon University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Description

The FAIRCORE4EOSC report on research software archival APIs and connectors provides an overview of the technical solutions, workflows, and standards developed to improve the archiving, referencing, description, and citation of research software within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) ecosystem. Building on the recommendations of the Scholarly Infrastructures for Research Software (SIRS) report, the deliverable describes the implementation of APIs and connectors that integrate repositories, publishers, and aggregators with the universal source code archive, Software Heritage, using metadata standards like CodeMeta and persistent identifiers such as SWHIDs. The report also outlines the deployment of the Software Heritage Mirror at GRNET to help ensure resilience and long-term access. The infrastructures involved include Zenodo, DANS Dataverse, Dagstuhl, Episciences, swMATH, OpenAIRE, Software Heritage, and GRNET. Finally, the report presents a roadmap for advancing standardisation and curation practices across infrastructures. This work supports greater interoperability, discoverability, and the recognition of research software as an important scholarly output within the EOSC and beyond.

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Project deliverable: 10.5281/zenodo.10376006 (DOI)
Publication: 10.24343/C34W2H (DOI)
Journal article: 10.17605/OSF.IO/KDE56 (DOI)
Event: https://hal.science/hal-04121507 (URL)
Publication: 10.2777/935288 (DOI)
Presentation: 10.7557/5.4910 (DOI)
Report: 10.2777/28598 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.1145/3643991.3644876 (DOI)
Report: https://inria.hal.science/hal-01876705 (URL)
Report: https://inria.hal.science/hal-01872189 (URL)
Project deliverable: 10.5281/ZENODO.8199104 (DOI)
Project deliverable: 10.5281/zenodo.14509418 (DOI)
Publication: 10.54900/zwm7q-vet94 (DOI)
Report: 10.52949/34 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.1002/asi.23425 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.2218/ijdc.v13i1.608 (DOI)
Preprint: 10.48550/arXiv.2012.13117 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.1109/eScience.2008.41 (DOI)
Preprint: 10.48550/ARXIV.1911.00295 (DOI)

Funding

European Commission
FAIRCORE4EOSC - Core Components Supporting a FAIR EOSC 101057264

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