See the original announcement.

We unfortunately have to postpone the planned migration on September 29th 6-8 UTC. The new migration date is October 13 from 06:00-08:00 UTC. We apologise for any inconvenience it may cause.

During a final trial migration run last week we have discovered some issues that we've been trying to address in time to be ready to start the final migration process today. Unfortunately, we've not be able to fully address the issues and as a precautionary measure we're postponing the migration.

Zenodo has over the past 10 years grown in both scale and size, and thus migrating the full system to a new technical platform is a large undertaking. In order to minimize service disruption for our users, we're taking an incremental approach. This approach works by migrating a snapshot of the existing system, and afterwards incrementally apply changes in the existing system to the new system. This method enables us to keep the downtime of Zenodo to about 1-2 hours instead of the ~3 days which full migration takes due to Zenodo's scale and size. The incremental approach however is also more technically challenging, and it is through our extensive quality assurance checks that we discovered issues that we need further time to investigate.

If you're eager to learn more abou the new platform, then you can find a comprehensive overview over what's new and what's changed on the following links:

• What's new?
• What's changed?

TL;DR

Zenodo.org will be unavailable for 2 hours on September 29th from 06:00-08:00 UTC.

Zenodo relaunching on next-generation platform - InvenioRDM

We're excited to finally announce the launch date for migrating Zenodo to our next-generation platform. On September 29th, Zenodo's underlying technical platform will be migrated to InvenioRDM, a digital repository platform born out of Zenodo and developed together with 25 partners. See also our earlier announcement.

Demo site

You can see a demo of the new Zenodo at https://zenodo-rdm-qa.web.cern.ch. The demo site has a snapshot of Zenodo production data from end-August.

Logging in

If you have an account on Zenodo.org, you can login on the demo site by resetting your password using the same email address as you registered with on Zenodo.org.

FAQ

Why must I save the changes before the migration?

We are setting up an entirely new production system, and thus once the intervention is over you will be required to login again. This means that any page you had open on Zenodo.org prior to the intervention starting, will no longer be able to interact with Zenodo after the intervention is over, and thus the changes you made will be lost. To avoid losing changes, you must simply ensure that you save any changes prior to the intervention starting on Sep 29 at 06:00 UTC.

What's new/changed?

We're launching several new features together with the release as well. A full announcement is going out two weeks in advance of the release, thus following is a quick overview of some of the new features:

• Community members: Ability for multiple users to curate/manage a community, as well as the ability of community members to see files in restricted records.
• Reviews: Community curators will be able to edit submissions to their community, and have a conversation with the submitter to fix issues prior to the submission.
• Sharing: New options for sharing records with specific users and as well as generating secret links that can be shared.
• Deposit form: Auto-completion of creators/contributors, affiliations and subjects from ORCiD, ROR, and OECD Fields of Science and Technology as well as improved funding and license selectors.
• Web accessibility: We still have to make many more improvements towards being level AA complaint with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, however the new platform has overall made significant improvements to web accessibility of the platform.
• User interface: Zenodo will look familiar, but we've introduced many smaller usability improvements to the user interface as well as better usage of screen space.

Will feature X still work?

Yes, we provide backward compatibility for all existing features. We will be launching a series of new and improved features which will be announced 2 weeks before the migration.

Will your APIs be backward compatible?

Yes, we do our outmost to ensure backward compatibility of our APIs, and that your integration will continue to work on the new platform as well.

Will I be required to update my API integration?

After Zenodo on InvenioRDM has been launched, we will deprecate some of our existing APIs. We will provide a migration period of 1-year for the transition. New features will only be available on the new API. The new API is similar to the existing API to ease the transition.

Will the community curators be able to edit my existing records?

If your record has been accepted into a community which you're not the owner of, you will receive a request to grant community curators access to edit the metadata of your record. If you decline the request, your record will be removed from the community. If you neither accept or decline the request within 6 months, the community curators will be granted access to edit the metadata.

Will community curators be able to view the files of my closed access or restricted record?

If your record has been accepted into a community which you're not the owner of and your record is either closed access or restricted access, you will receive a request to grant community curators access to view the files of your closed/restricted record. If you decline the request, or you do not accept the request within 6 months, your record will be automatically removed from the community.

Will old links still work?

Yes. We have ensured that all old links have been redirected to their new location. This include e.g. also a translation layer that ensure search queries still work.

You're releasing on Friday?

Yes. The migration process starts already on Monday Sep 25th and will last throughout the week. In addition we have senior staff on duty during the full weekend in case of any problems.

Zenodo was launched 10 years ago on May 8th by CERN and OpenAIRE. The goal since day one has been to enable any researcher from anywhere in the world to participate in practising open science. Today, 10 years later, Zenodo supports more than 300,000 researchers in 7500+ research organisations in 153 countries to do just that. A recent study[1] conservatively estimated the socio-economic impact of Zenodo in society to 95 million EUR per year but more likely close to 1 billion EUR/year. All in support of the mission to provide the platform for all researchers to publicly share their work and join the open science movement.

We always believed that research data should end up where researchers can care best for them, whether that be a subject/institute/national repository, but we also knew that gaps in the offerings still left an enormous quantity of research data with nowhere else to go, that we could usefully offer help to.

Zenodo is now a core enabler of open science practice by providing trusted long-term storage of research, especially to those in most need and without the means. CERN is a leader of Big Data storage, creating technologies at the scale frontier, already keeping almost 1 exabyte of high-energy physics data safe. By housing Zenodo in a corner of the CERN Data Centre, we use this expertise to share what we find easy with others that find it hard.

Thank you

We would also like to send a BIG thank you to all our funders and donors who have sustained our growth and seen the value of our offering.

A special thank you goes to:

• European Union
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Arcadia Fund
• US National Institute of Health
• CERN and OpenAIRE

Achievements

Below you'll find some few of our achievements throughout the past 10 years:

• 2013: Zenodo launched on May 8th - the first record uploaded on Zenodo was Chandra News by Chris Erdmann.
• 2014: GitHub integration launched - today Zenodo hosts +85% of the world's software DOIs.
• 2016: New technical platform enables +50GB uploads for all.
• 2017: DOI versioning feature launches, pioneering the Concept DOI.
• 2018: Usage statistics launches using the Make Data Count standard.
• 2019: Pioneering work in software citations.
• 2022: Zenodo reaches 300.000 users in 7500+ research organisations in 153 countries.

What's next? See Zenodo’s next generation platform - InvenioRDM. Hint: You can already take the preview for a spin at https://zenodo-rdm.web.cern.ch