[open-science] 200, 000 deposits at Zenodo: making sustainable FAIR data from publication

[Donat Agosti]

200,000 scientific illustrations and articles deposited at the Biodiversity Literature Repository at Zenodo.

The collaboration with Pensoft publishers and their direct import to the Biodiversity Literature Repository, and Plazi’s daily text and data mining workflow of taxonomic publication yielded over 172.000 published, scientific illustrations that have been deposited to the repository. In the average, each article includes 7.2 illustrations. Together with articles, more than 200.000 deposits all together. Each deposit includes citation of the source, but more importantly, also highly structured taxonomic treatments deposited in TreatmentBank, referring to those illustrations and cited in the respective BLR-deposit. Together they add up to millions of  citable, reusable facts.

The BLR deposits represent over 50% of all those in Zenodo, in which it is just one of their communities. At the same time, they occupy only 1.2% of the physical space of Zenodo. This calls for a rapid expansion of the process to add more data.

The value of Zenodo is its robustness, speed of service, standardization, minting of persistent identifiers (i.e. DataCite DOIs), the emphasis on adding related items, machine upload, the export in various formats and sustainability.

The Biodiversity Literature Repository is an open community in Zenodo, run currently by Plazi and Pensoft. Publishers and scientists are encouraged to help to contribute to enhance a resource.

http://biolitrepo.org
http://plazi.org (TreatmentBank)
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/pp-tbl030518.php
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Donat

Donat Agosti
President
Plazi
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