Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) step into a dynamic leadership position as co-chairs through Zenodo in the third year of the National Institutes of Health Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). I'm stepping into it.
Coordinated by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, GREI is a unique competitive and collaborative model of strategic partnerships among seven generalist repositories designed to enhance the sharing of research data and promote openness. GREI is tasked with advancing the biomedical data ecosystem by establishing a framework of consistent capabilities, services, metrics, and social infrastructure across repositories.
Since its inception, the program has made great strides in fostering collaboration through action-focused working groups focused on use cases, metadata and search, metrics, and community engagement. Guided by a collaborative leadership structure, these focused efforts are supported through several collaborative efforts, including interactive training and workshops, repository data citation best practices, metadata recommendations, and a use case catalog. Facilitate community engagement and improved interoperability between generalist repositories.
Co-chairs work with NIH to help coordinate projects, implement work plans, and facilitate meetings. They include:
- Sonia Barbosa, Associate Director, Dataverse Support, Data Curation, Murray Archives, Harvard University
- Traci Snowden, Data Management Product Manager, Mendeley Data and Digital Commons Research, Elsevier
- Dr. Christy Holmes, Associate Dean for Knowledge Management and Strategy, Director of the Galter Health Sciences Library, and Professor of Preventive Medicine.
Zenodo joined GREI in 2022 through a partnership between CERN and Northwestern University. The partnership is led by Mr. Holmes and Dr. Tim Smith, his IT communications and outreach coordinator at the Open Quantum Institute and CERN, and features the expertise and leadership of both locations. Over the past several years, CERN and Northwestern have partnered with the broader InvenioRDM open source community to develop his InvenioRDM software, user experience software for repositories. His InvenioRDM, which serves as both Zenodo's new backend and standalone institutional repository solution, empowers researchers and the research community with his FAIR practices, trust, share, and discover a wide range of digital objects that go far beyond data. We support you.
“Zenodo continues to be a leader in open science infrastructure and practices. We are taking creative steps towards our common goals and leveraging our unique expertise to build a more open and mutually beneficial ecosystem. We are excited to have Zenodo serve as co-chair for a third year as we move forward with the system,” said Smith.
“We are excited about the unique opportunities that will be fostered through GREI. As our GREI program evolves, we will foster a more dynamic, open and equitable ecosystem to advance research and foster innovation. capabilities are also evolving,” Holmes said. “We are excited to work with our GREI partners to advance toward our common goals.”
About Zenodo
Zenodo is a generalist repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN. Since his launch more than a decade ago, Zenodo has served as an open and trusted hub for global science, allowing researchers to share and preserve research results of any size, in any format, and in any field.
Zenodo is built on InvenioRDM software, a turnkey, scalable, best-in-class user experience software for repositories. Serving as both Zenodo's new backend and standalone institutional repository solution, InvenioRDM supports researchers and the research community with his FAIR practices, credit, sharing, and discovery of a wide range of digital objects.
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The Zenodo GREI project is supported by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy/Office of the NIH Director through Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) No. 1 OT2 DB000013 under OTA-21-009 “Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI).” Masu.