Published February 23, 2026 | Version v2.2.0
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eossr

  • 1. Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LAPP
  • 1. GSI
  • 2. ECAP, FAU (Nuremberg, Germany)
  • 3. Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LAPP

Description

The ESCAPE OSSR library

The eOSSR is the Python library to programmatically manage the ESCAPE OSSR.In particular, it includes:

  • an API to access the Zenodo and the OSSR, retrieve records and publish content
  • functions to map and convert metadata from CodeMeta to Zenodo metadata shema
  • functions to validate their codemeta.json file against OSSR requirements
  • functions to help developers automatically publish to Zenodo and contribute to the OSSR, in particular using their continuous integration (see also code snippets)

Code: https://gitlab.com/escape-ossr/eossr

Documentation: https://escape-ossr.gitlab.io/eossr/

Former stable versions

  • v1.0:
  • v0.6:
  • v0.5:
  • v0.4:
  • v0.3.3:
  • v0.2 :

Install

For users

pip install eossr

You can also run it with docker:

docker run -it registry.gitlab.com/escape-ossr/eossr:latest

Visit our registry to see the available docker containers.

Note that latest tag always point to the latest stable released container. For reproducible results, use a tagged version.

For developers

git clone https://gitlab.com/escape-ossr/eossr.gitcd eossrpip install -e .

Running tests

To run tests locally, run:

pip install -e ".[tests]"pytest eossr

Some tests will be skiped if SANDBOX_ZENODO_TOKEN is not defined in your environment variables.If you want to run these tests, you will need to create a sandbox zenodo token and add it to your env:

export SANDBOX_ZENODO_TOKEN="your_sandbox_token"

Online CodeMeta validator for the OSSR

The eOSSR powers an online validator for your CodeMeta metadata and to convert it to Zenodo metadata:

License

See LICENSE

Cite

If using this library, please cite the ESCAPE OSSR project using:

@Article{ 10.12688/openreseurope.15692.2,AUTHOR = { Vuillaume, T and Al-Turany, M and Füßling, M and Gal, T and Garcia, E and Graf, K and Hughes, G and Kettenis, M and Kresan, D and Schnabel, J and Tacke, C and Verkouter, M},TITLE = {The ESCAPE Open-source Software and Service Repository [version 2; peer review: 5 approved]},JOURNAL = {Open Research Europe},VOLUME = {3},YEAR = {2023},NUMBER = {46},DOI = {10.12688/openreseurope.15692.2}}

If you used the library in a workflow, please cite the version used as well, using the cite section in the Zenodo page (right column, below the Versions section).

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Additional details

Related works

Is derived from
Software: https://gitlab.com/escape-ossr/eossr (URL)
Is documented by
Software documentation: https://gitlab.com/escape-ossr/eossr/-/blob/master/README.md (URL)

Funding

European Commission
ESCAPE - European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures 824064
European Commission
ESCAPE - European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures 824064