Conference Agenda

University of Bern and Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, utilizing DSpace CRIS 7, are in the process of redesigning the user interface to enhance user-friendliness and engage a broader audience. Recognizing the default design's resemblance to traditional repositories, we address the need for a modern and appealing interface. Our methodology involves the creation of wireframes and work with a design company, aligning the entire process with our corporate identity. While results are yet to be implemented, the aim is a more engaging and transparent repository interface, reflecting modern design principles. The initiative responds to the evolving expectations of academic and public users, emphasizing user-friendliness, aesthetics, and transparency.

This proposal seeks to share our ongoing experience and anticipated outcomes, aligning with the OR2024 sub-theme of "Transparency: Promoting research transparency" to contribute to discussions on enhancing the openness and accessibility of academic repositories.

The poster showcases an ongoing adaptation of the open-source research data repository ReSeeD, built in Samvera Hyrax 3 and operated by Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), to support day-to-day research data management in neuroscience. In collaboration with the interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1280 "Extinction Learning", which involves more than 70 researchers from four institutions, workflows have been developed that enable the ingest of research data and metadata at the early stages of research. User feedback drives ongoing optimization of the interface for efficient presentation of research data organized in a navigable, multi-level tree folder structure featuring expandable elements for nested data and metadata. A tailored three-level roles and rights system, aligned with the CRC's organizational structure, along with a faceted search functionality, is designed to promote early data sharing and collaboration. For sustainable research, the system incorporates three-stage quality control workflows for FAIR data publication and 10-year preservation. Ongoing improvements, driven by collaboration between CRC researchers, the central facility and external service providers, focus on the seamless integration of the system into the daily routine of researchers with the aim of improving transparency throughout the research process.

This poster will highlight the critical need for building an interoperable US repository network as a foundation of a national research infrastructure. The US Repository Network (USRN) is launching a pilot project to facilitate the discoverability of USRN resources and to investigate its role in ensuring free and equitable access to federally funded research as required by the OSTP Memorandum. The project is a collaboration of SPARC, COAR, Antleaf and CORE. It involves indexing metadata and full texts from participating repositories for discovery, assessing and improving current practices, and enhancing metadata quality. The initiative, supported by 20 diverse high-profile repositories, will provide best practice guidelines for both machine and human discoverability of research articles.

The poster shows the current state of challenges related to sharing and publishing sensitive medical data, our experience so far, challenges we are facing and potential future solutions.

The project "KI Data Repository - Phase 1" is one of Swedish National Data Services (SND’s) currently four Flagship projects (SND, 2023), which means that the project's results are expected to be of benefit to all higher education institutions within the SND network that do not yet have, or are about to arrange a local solution for storing research data to be made available through SND's research data catalogue. As a Flagship project, "KI Data Repository - Phase 1" reports to SND and is running during fall 2023-until the end of 2024.

PsychArchives, the disciplinary repository for psychological science, supports the publication of a range of digital research object types, including articles, preregistrations, research data, code, and tests. Committed to the FAIR principles, its aim is to enable researchers to comply with good scientific practice standards of openness and transparency. The repository is provided as a non-commercial public service by the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), the supra-regional scientific research support organization for psychology in German-speaking countries.

A key feature of PsychArchives is its Sharing Level concept, addressing researchers’ diverse needs when sharing their research output by allowing them nuanced control over access and usage of their content. The currently implemented Sharing Levels range from open to restricted access, each with tailored licensing. Another important feature is the reviewer link functionality that allows contributors to share DROs anonymously before publication to support the peer-review process.

The technical base of PsychArchives is DSpace with a PHP/Symfony frontend and in-house developed components for submitting and delivering content. PsychArchives is committed to efficiently and securely archiving and publishing psychological research within a robust digital infrastructure.

The Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) is planning an implementation of Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers in our institutional repository, with the goals of unambiguously identifying Works affiliated with our institution in DataCite as well as improving funder metadata in our local system to better support funder requirements. Our poster will provide a brief introduction to ROR, describe the impetus for exploring ROR at the CDR, and outline how the CDR currently uses persistent identifiers. We’ll explain the proposal we developed for integrating ROR into the repository, the resources and other implementations that were referenced, the problems we are hoping to solve, and next steps for implementation.

For 20 years, the German DINI Certificate for Open Access Publication Services has provided transparent criteria and guidelines for building and maintaining trustworthy publication services such as repositories and Diamond Open Access journals. The community-developed, non-commercial certificate paves the way for open scholarly communication and supports the prerequisites for the free availability of scholarly information as an essential element of future-oriented research-related services. Introduced in 2004 and now in its 7th revised version, the DINI Certificate has been used in approximately 120 - mostly successful - certification processes. Since the beginning the catalogue takes into account international standards (e.g. provided by COAR, OpenAIRE). With this poster, we are reaching out to the international repository community by illustrating the key features of the well-established Certificate and its catalogue of criteria. The latest version of the Certificate has been adapted to the Austrian legal system. We hope that other countries will follow, so that repositories in more countries can benefit from the DINI Certificate.

A variety of software products are used for the collection and presentation of digital scholarly editions. In our view, repositories already provide many important functionalities for this purpose. We will develop concepts and strategies based on the open-source repository framework MyCoRe to make these advantages accessible to the Digital Humanities (DH) community and to make the use of repositories in the context of digital scholarly edition projects more attractive. An important objective is that the repository is actively used during the creation process of the edition and can thus be used as a tool for collaboration.

Individual project examples are used to examine both the possibilities of data ingestion using standardized metadata formats and the integration of existing services such as TEI tools and authority data services. The poster showcases a visual representation, featuring an infrastructure sketch and data flow diagram, illustrating the interaction of TEI tools and repositories. Through this, we highlight the pathway toward structured and schema-compliant data entry for digital scholarly editions. Our presentation seeks to inspire a dialogue on how these strategies can contribute to the broader goal of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data practices in Digital Humanities.

As an increasingly large number of research projects produces machine learning models and data science applications a need arises for storing and sharing these research outputs, just like in case of e.g., produced research data. To meet this need, we built a custom repository focused specifically on sharing machine learning models and data science applications (SciLifeLab Serve, https://serve.scilifelab.se); it is currently available to life science researchers affiliated with Swedish research institutions. Our repository goes beyond just sharing files or code – users can make inferences using the submitted models and can interact with the submitted data science applications. At the same time, each submission is an entry with accompanying metadata. Our aim is to allow researchers to share their models and applications through an intuitive web interface and while doing so meet FAIR requirements. The service has components and, therefore, accompanying challenges of both a hosting platform and a research data repository. The developed platform is available as open source software that others are welcome to use to launch their own instances. In this poster we will share our journey so far, challenges, and how we met them.

At Universität Hamburg the Center for sustainable Research Data Management offers a variety of services along the data life cycle - starting with data management plans and going on with a repository service. One service, which is in between and especially needed in the natural science, is an electronic laboratory notebook software. elabFTW works in the department of chemistry, however, at least one more open source software (e.g. chemotion) will be established for the university in 2024. The ELNs will directly be connected to the repository. The integration of ELNs to repositories offers several advantages. Firstly, it enables seamless data sharing and collaboration among researchers. Researchers can easily upload, store, and share their experimental data, making it accessible to their colleagues, collaborators, and even the broader scientific community. This not only promotes transparency but also facilitates data reuse and reproducibility, thus enhancing the overall research output and impact. Secondly, ELNs connected to repositories provide a secure and organized storage solution for research data. Researchers can confidently store and manage their valuable data, knowing that it is well-preserved and protected against loss or corruption.

The poster reports the ongoing work and learnings of the ELN implementation and connection to the repository.

Dublin Core metadata is commonly used for the description of doctoral dissertations, Master’s theses, article preprints, technical reports and other resources created in institutions of higher education such as universities and polytechnics, for storing and making them available via their institutional repositories. DC Metadata Terms do not contain all core metadata elements required for the description of these materials. Therefore many local extensions to Dublin Core have been created, on national, regional and institutional levels.

In order to make Dublin Core better suited for the description of scholarly works, the Scholarly Resources Application Profile (SRAP) is being developed in a DCMI working group. The application profile will include guidance and examples of how to use Dublin Core, along with other metadata vocabularies such as BIBO, to describe scholarly resources. The working group will also propose additions to Dublin Core Terms to better match the requirements of metadata for scholarly resources.

The poster will present the current draft of the SRAP profile and how to apply it for different types of scholarly documents. When completed, SRAP will improve the interoperability, discoverability and transparency of academic institutional repositories. Parts of SRAP may be applied also to other types of repositories.

This poster discusses how university libraries can enhance the visibility of academic research and promote interdisciplinary cooperation through the management of faculty and student research materials via open digital repositories. Taking the construction of the open digital repository at Peking University Library as an example, this paper studies the implementation path of open digital repository in university libraries from two aspects: fundamental platform construction and management mechanisms. Finally, we emphasize the role of university construction of open digital repositories in promoting transparency, accessibility, and cooperation.

This poster will present an in-progress update on the work done around the 2022 Open Repositories Ideas Challenge, Surfacing Thesis and Dissertation Reference Lists through Institutional Repositories. We are interested in sharing our work thus far, and hearing feedback from attendees about our methodology as we continue this work.

Researchers often discover relevant content in part by navigating the network of relationships (especially citations) between research outputs, and tools to support this are built into many scholarly databases and services. These systems either use structured citation information provided by the authors or publisher of an item, or extract this information directly from its full text. Historically, the ability to reuse citation information outside of a specific system has been limited. However, in recent years a dramatic shift has taken place in the treatment of citation information from publications such as journal articles through the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) and the resultant increase in the quantity and level of openness of reference information deposited by publishers with Crossref.

We will introduce the workflows trialed at our two universities to obtain, store, display, and disseminate (through DataCite metadata) the reference lists from ETDs in our institutional repositories, including unexpected roadblocks.

High quality metadata are essential for the presentation, accessibility, discoverability, and preservation of cultural objects. Processing metadata has become an important task in cultural heritage institutions.

On this poster we present a set of Java libraries, that provide a uniform approach to the creation and processing of metadata objects in one of the following widely-used standards: METS, MODS, MARC, PICA, DublinCore, ALTO.

For each standard a corresponding Java object model was developed. JAXB annotations (JAVA API for XML-Binding) are used for XML-based standards (e.g. METS, MODS) to specify the mapping between Java object model and XML representation. The JSON Binding API is used for the serialization and deserialization of metadata objects which have a JSON-based representation (like MARC or PICA).

Consistently implemented processor classes allow reading and writing data from file, URL, input stream or string. Builder classes following the Builder Design Pattern can be used to create and modify metadata objects in a very elaborated way. Validator classes check XML data against the corresponding XML schemas.

Furthermore some source code examples will demonstrate how attendees can use and integrate the tools into their own software.

This poster proposal describes an initiative undertaken by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), to map their scientific output with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SLU wanted to assess its contributions to the SDGs and also to aim to understand its focus and impact on specific SDGs. Given that the SDG´s are not intended to be used for subject indexing of individual scholarly articles, but rather are politically motivated, different interpretations arise during the SDG classification of scholarly articles, leading to diverse results across approaches.

SLU has adopted a customized approach, utilizing its local repository (SLUpub) to index publications with SDG data. Librarians manually screen search results, comparing article titles and abstracts with individual SDG targets, sub-targets, and indicators. The indexing process involves manual input, limited to three SDGs per publication. The resulting SDG data is showcased on a dedicated web page and integrated into SLUpub's web interface. Although the current process relies on English language articles and major commercial databases, future plans include expanding to cover Swedish articles and grey literature, with the repository as the primary source. The poster illustrates the indexing process and visualizations of SLU's contributions to the SDGs.

Accessibility of institutional repositories (IRs)—the content made available, repository platforms themselves, and related websites—is an important but often unprioritized issue in IR management. In this poster I will cover efforts to evaluate and enhance the digital accessibility of Iowa State University’s Digital Repository. The motivation for this work is to comply with an institutional policy affecting public-facing web page content and online courses; the policy’s timeline began in 2022 and asks staff to meet benchmarks leading up to full compliance by July 1, 2026. I will share strategies taken, challenges encountered, decisions taken, and details of conversations with stakeholders inside and outside the library. This poster will be of interest to repository managers who wish to improve the accessibility of their repositories

Repositories are an important part of research data management, enabling the sustainable and free use of data. To ensure that these data can be used by as many people as possible, repositories must be designed to be as accessible as possible. Several components need to be considered. Access to the repository needs to be as easy as possible; logging in and searching should not be a barrier. The objects themselves should be designed to be as accessible as possible, e.g. images should have meaningful captions, videos should be accompanied by text, text should be designed accordingly, and so on. The descriptions of the objects, the metadata, must also be easy to read for everyone. All help texts, explanations, and guidelines must also meet accessibility criteria. Last but not least, the upload process must be designed in such a way that it can be carried out by anyone. The poster aims to show how repositories can be made more accessible, thereby supporting open access and enabling everyone to be an independent scholar. The individual aspects of an accessible repository will be shown and explained.

The continuous development of the KTISIS institutional repository and the constant adaptation of its services to the needs of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) following the international trends and perspectives make KTISIS a pioneer in the world of institutional repositories. KTISIS allows researchers to include their research activities in their repository account. The adoption of a Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) by the University for the funding of researchers through criteria related to their activities and the new functionality allowing them through a bibliometric tool to generate their CV based on the Cyprus Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (CYQAA) standard make KTISIS a tool for their evaluation and promotion. KTISIS shows the metrics of research impact from various bibliographic databases and the alternative impact of research on the Social Network, thus providing researchers and authorities with a direct insight into research interest worldwide, giving them the opportunity to react and increase interest and opportunities for future collaborations. The article highlights all the efforts of the CUT Library to enhance research and assist its community in its efforts to promote research and find new opportunities for future collaborations.

Data management planning is a key task and an essential element in the process to manage the whole FAIR data life cycle. It is also a mandatory requirement from several major funders, as well as some research organizations, including Chalmers. Yet writing and updating a data management plan - even with the support of a DMP system - is often considered a rather tedious task that, despite the intentions, in the end often fails to return any substantial added value, other than policy compliance, for either researchers or other parties involved.

By automating central workflows and involving key stakeholders in that process we have found that it is quite possible to accomplish a solution that not only facilitates the researcher tasks, but also ensures controlled, re-usable metadata and enables central stakeholders to be automatically connected with relevant parts of the process, from planning to sharing and preservation of data. Using the DMP tool Data Stewardship Wizard, funder project databases and not at least the locally developed CRIS system (research.chalmers.se) and supporting routines, the first steps were implemented in our production workflows (in 2022).

This poster presents both the work done so far, as well as planned future developments.

The National Library of Nigeria (NLN) faces the critical challenge of preserving and disseminating Nigeria's rich but aging heritage. Preservation deploying technology is often hindered by limited resources. The inaccessibility of these heritage creates a knowledge gap within Nigeria, limiting research and understanding of the country's history and culture. The National Repository of Nigeria (NRN), deployed by the National Library, tackles this issue by actively harvesting and uploading digitized historical resources in the National Repository. Despite limited resources, the project has already begun preserving and showcasing this vital heritage. Over 650 resources have so far been digitized and uploaded, making them accessible to Nigerians and the global community for the first time. This not only safeguards these fragile materials but also empowers research, education, and cultural exchange. The National Repository of Nigeria stands as a beacon of hope for preserving and unlocking Nigeria's immense cultural wealth. By providing open access to most of these resources, the project empowers Nigerians and the world to connect with their heritage and forge a brighter future informed by the past.

In October 2023, the Digital Scholarship Services team in Fondren Library at Rice University upgraded its digital repository. The process was both challenging, rewarding, and instructive for our future work on digital collections. We took a mixed approach in which 27% of our content was moved to Quartex, which could be curated as digital cultural heritage, 11% was retired, and the remainder migrated from the DSpace 6.4 system to the new 7.6 deployment. We are now using our two new platforms’ API’s to enable a microservices-based approach to customized UI presentations for special collections, and semi-automatic metadata enrichment, and document submission workflows. This poster describes our preliminary attempts in this space on two collections: geo-located photographs of Chinese subway advertisements over two decades and the geographically dispersed papers relating to the United States’ President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Many areas of research are undertaken at the University of Oxford. ORA Collections aim to bring content available in the repository, covering specific themes of research, together in to a single presentable and searchable space; showcasing all types of work (articles, conference papers, book sections, theses, data, etc.) together for engagement and reference.

To avoid manual curation of content for an ORA Collection, SOLR queries have been used to present a work within a theme. This has involved development of SOLR join queries and targeted field indexing to refine search results to the relevance of a collection theme.

Three collections have been launched so far, focusing on research themes of COVID-19, Climate, and Artificial Intelligence research. With the creation of each collection the mechanism for curating and presenting results have been developed and refined. The collections have been well received so far with the Climate Research Collection being shortlisted as a finalist in the Green Gown Awards in association with UKRI.

We hope that the work done with ORA will provide inspiration to others in presenting themed research collections as well as being able to share the development with SOLR queries. Further reading at: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5c46148d-6739-4865-bae7-08fe7af87d24

AI has the potential to significantly impact open access repository development landscape in various ways like enabling better search, content recommendation, identifying new patterns in scholarly content, and promoting openness in datasets and content. Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as crucial and widely used resources in the field of natural language processing, which is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) and shares common ground with machine learning (ML). LLMs allow computers to comprehend and produce text in a manner that resembles human communication.

Our goal during the experiment was to create a conversation application that integrates OpenAI to query DSpace using natural language processing (NLP). We explored technologies such as LLMs, OpenAI API, LangChain, embeddings, and vector stores. LLMs are deep learning models trained on large datasets. The OpenAI API provides a cloud interface for accessing OpenAI's machine learning models. LangChain is an AI framework for language-based applications. Embeddings encode information in high-dimensional vector spaces. Vector stores are databases that store vector embeddings of non-numerical data. To create better responses, we used retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to incorporate additional, real-time data from DSpace. This allows us to explore the most up-to-date data in DSpace.

PIDs like ORCID or DOI can be considered as the probably most important pillars to empower global progress to repository systems. Today any repository software should have a working ORCID integration to help the users to distinguish persons on a global level and another persistent identifier to address publications.

The well-known repository software DSpace has a working integration of ORCID, which has been introduced in DSpace 7.3 (June 2022). But even in the currently latest version DSpace 7.6 it’s still not complete.

DSpace-CRIS is a software, which is very much tied to DSpace, but it’s a standalone software and an institution has to choose whether to use DSpace or DSpace-CRIS. DSpace-CRIS is maintained and developed by 4Science and is containing a complete ORCID integration for a long time.

Hamburg University of Technology recently conducted a project in cooperation with 4Science, which was funded by ORCID in context of the Global Participation Fund. The project had the goal to improve the login process against ORCID for DSpace-CRIS.

This poster will illustrate the ORCID integrations of DSpace and DSpace-CRIS, focusing on the results of the login improvement project.

Over the past two decades, higher education institutions (HEIs) have increasingly embraced digital formats for their theses and dissertations (TDs), aiming to improve their accessibility, dissemination, and impact. As a result, millions of TDs are available online through institutional repositories (IRs). As the shift towards digital repositories gains momentum, the enduring accessibility and secure archiving of university TDs within IRs necessitate robust policies and practices for digital preservation. This study will analyze the current global landscape of digital preservation policies and practices within the context of TDs, identify areas for improvement and potential gaps, and provide insights to enhance preservation strategies for these scholarly works in IRs. Focusing on a random sample of diverse IRs, this study utilizes content analysis to extract tacit knowledge from the written policies of HEIs around the world. The study will delve into the nuances of these policies, examining the extent to which they cover the preservation aspects of TDs, the specific measures outlined, and how they address relevant challenges. By conducting this analysis, the study seeks to provide insights for IRs managers, librarians, and stakeholders involved in the maintenance of IRs. The findings will contribute to enhancing the longevity and accessibility of HEIs' scholarly output.

The aim is to compare the accessibility of the theses stored in Osuva publications archive in 2019 and 2023 in the open collection of master’s theses. In 2019, the University's general writing guidelines were introduced, but a transition period from the old guidelines was still in force. The old guidelines did not take accessibility into account in any way. The new guidelines contain accessibility guidelines. In the discussions, the universities' policy on the interpretation of the law is often invoked, with the university being responsible for providing the accessible template and instructions, but the creation of the file being the responsibility of the student. This study provides insight into whether this policy is sufficient to improve the accessibility of theses. Can we see any improvement?

The Samvera.org website is the first place to look when learning who the Samvera community is, what the open repository technologies do, and how these different options might meet a given use case. Over the past ten years the website has been hosted on different platforms and fallen under the responsibilities of various volunteers, but the community has struggled to keep the site up to date and to share the broadest and most relevant Samvera technology implementations and examples.

Beginning in 2023, the samvera.org website and related subdomains have begun a transition to open-source GitHub apps, using NextJS and headless CMS Contentful to create fast, static sites hosted with GitHub pages. This new approach results in a web presence that is more accessible, sustainable, and transparent. Hosting on GitHub eliminates hosting and software costs and is open source and accessible. All the data that is most important to potential users, such as details about global implementations and blog posts with the latest Community news, is easily kept up to date by multiple volunteers with no technical expertise required. And when technologies change, the entire site and all the content can easily be moved to another hosting option.

Configuring a repository software often is a time-consuming process for non-experts. Yet for experts, the integration of a repository in the infrastructure of the institution becomes a challenge as many documented cases prove. The institutional single-sign-on system can be configured in a variety of ways. Linking the repository to the storage system may turn into an even more demanding issue. In addition, some researchers need highly customized data models. At the end, such problems may lead to compromise solutions, in which the data is de facto neither transparent nor in favor of underrepresented communities. Although (technically) the data itself is open access and available, it is hard to access, that is, usage incommodiousness is a barrier to accessing the data. We like to present our experiences with Invenio-RDM, a turn-key research data management repository platform, (which is about to be rolled out and) which lowers configuration costs and diminishes false compromise solutions.

This poster will discuss the researchers’ assessment of whether selected U.S. digital image repositories align with the Digital Public Goods (DPGs) Alliance’s DPGs Standard. It will share the current progress of this assessment, including their methodology and any results to date, as well as outline some initial considerations for practitioners. This research is unique because it (a) applies the DPGs Alliance’s standards to U.S. digital collection image repositories, one distinct subset of the digital repository landscape assessed by the DGPs Alliance, and (b) contributes to the greater scholarly dialogue on digital collection image repositories as a public good.

Eritrea is rich with ancient manuscripts written with its own script known “Gǝʿǝz”. The script is an

earliest one commonly found at both Eritrea and Ethiopia. Gǝʿǝz could only be read by few people at

monasteries and churches. Today, these materials are far from rich of the common society and

scholars with the exception of few monks and priests. Due to continuous use and handling, the age

and intellectual contents of these materials are highly at risk. In unpublished preliminary study

conducted by the Eritrean Research Documentation Centre (RDC) reveals that there are around 6042

registered manuscripts. However, all the interviewees confirm that the number of manuscripts would

go beyond 20,000 if a holistic inventory is undertaken across the country. Yet, the country is unable

to conduct a comprehensive and conclusive inventory of manuscripts and as a consequence, it became

impossible to understand the extent and intellectual content of Gǝʿǝz manuscripts. These realities

became among the other reasons for not taking a serious conservation and preservation work on the

ground and far more hindered the accessibility of these materials for scholarship. The purpose of this

research was to suggest possible ways on how to preserve and prepare these collections ready for

I will share a case study highlighting the building of an international conference collection over the last 5 years, in the University of Kentucky’s repository, a project that has changed course over the last year.

Repository managers in Universities are often faced with competing demands for their services when it comes to collection development, necessitating creativity and agility. Many contributors require assistance with depositing work : This can involve digitization, collecting and curating, and other time intensive activities. This IR Manager came on board after the previous manager had undertaken to provide IR access to 100 years of events: The International Grassland Congress. Unquestionably a worthwhile collection, internationally created and utilized, I pursued ways to sustain and maximize our progress without allowing it to monopolize our limited resources.

It’s helpful to see the impact of the collection, its growth over time, and its reach: With a soil science focus, users in 236 countries and international authors it is a great example of transparency, community and sustainability.

FAIR-IMPACT is developing guidelines and a prototype to expose relevant information as metadata to facilitate discovery, provide context, support interoperability, and create a sense of trust in service providers and the services they offer. Transparent and linked information between objects, the repositories that hold or interact with them, and the registries and portals that use this information, can be indexed, harvested, reused, and potentially validated against agreed criteria or by designated validation authorities to improve collaboration and trust between stakeholders. The guidelines and technical implementation of them are intended to flexibly fit different use cases and scenarios that occur in the research data landscape, which is why we collect community input during the development of them. This input will directly feed into next iterations of the work.