deploy2zenodo + deploy2inveniordm

preamble

deploy2zenodo are two lightweight shell scripts to deploy your data to Zenodo or Invenio RDM, the open-source repository platform powering Zenodo. You can use them in a CI pipeline as an automatic workflow.

Environmental variables provide high flexibility. Depending on the selected flags, data can be curated

• before deployment in a merge request
• manually via the Zenodo web interface, or
• not curated at all.

Note: While deploy2zenodo is primarily tailored for the Zenodo API, deploy2inveniordm is specifically designed for the Invenio RDM API used by Zenodo.

intention

To satisfy the FAIR¹ principles², publications should be deposited to an open, persistent repository. By publishing to such repositories, each publication receives a PID (persistent identifier) and at least the metadata is publicly accessible, findable and citable. Furthermore, current discussions about KPIs (key performance indicator) for software and data publications also lead to the need to generate PIDs for software and data.

Especially software usually is not citable by a PID. To overcome this and make software academically significant we provide here a tool for automatic publication to the open repository zenodo.

In principal the same is true for all kind of scientific data (e. g. measurements, software and results such as papers). For every data managed in a version control system an automatic publication to an open repository is useful³.

Software in particular is subject to frequent changes, resulting in many versions. This leads to the urge to automate the publishing process. This is not only about making the software usable through software repositories, but also about the citability of individual versions.

how-to

• README.deploy2zenodo.md
• README.deploy2inveniordm.md

license: Apache-2.0

deploy2zenodo and deploy2inveniordm are licensed under the Apache-2.0.

Copyright 2023-2026 Daniel Mohr and
   Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V., D-51170 Koeln

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1. FAIR Principles↩︎

2. An interpretation of the FAIR principles to guide implementations in the HMC digital ecosystem.↩︎

3. Guidance on Versioning of Digital Assets.↩︎