Latest platform improvements and updates

by Lea Guglielmetto-Chaleard, on August 18, 2026

Smarter setup for your EU project community

Setting up a new EU project community is now simpler thanks to the EU projects database CORDIS and the OpenOrgs database.

When creating a new project community on the EOR, key information is now populated automatically, including:

a project short description;
links to the project's website;
participating organisations.

EU project community form with additional fields populated automatically

Automated curation, better metadata quality

A new set of automated curation checks help improve the metadata quality of your records in your EU project community:

Record submission checks validate funding information by comparing metadata against your project’s description.

Project community checks validate funding information, detect existing project communities to avoid duplications, verify the presence of required project metadata (including website, logo, and participating organisations), and verify members' affiliations with your community.

These enhancements will guide you towards creating high-quality metadata submissions while supporting compliance with Horizon Europe Open Science requirements. Together, this will speed up about 40% of curation tasks that were previously carried out manually!

Record submission check

Learn more about our approach to AI in our new dedicated page, which explains how AI is used, how data is processed, and how these checks are applied consistently to all submissions to ensure a fair and harmonised curation process.

Archive and preview websites in Zenodo

A WARC (Web ARChive) previewer has been enabled in Zenodo. This new feature, developed by our collaboration partners directly in InvenioRDM, allows users to preview and inspect archived web content directly within the repository.