What we work on now
Infrastructure changes to absorb the surge of traffic from AI harvesters without degrading service for human users.
Internal launch of AI-assisted submission and curation for a limited group of users. Initial scope covers basic metadata fields (title, description, publication date, DOI).
Automated onboarding of EU-funded project communities into the EU Open Research Repository, with AI-assisted checks on funding metadata.
What we plan working on next
Archival of software repositories from GitLab.com, alongside the existing GitHub.com integration.
Authentication via the EOSC EU Node AAI. New user accounts are validated automatically using AAI attributes.
Wider AIRDEC pilot, extending access beyond the internal group. Coverage broadens to further metadata fields, and curation checks start considering file contents alongside metadata.
What we investigate
Further AI-assisted automation: linking metadata to authoritative identifiers (authors to ORCID, affiliations and funders to ROR), deriving metadata from record context (e.g. subject classification from abstracts), and reviewing records against repository and community curation policies.
Better search and discovery in the EU Open Research Repository, with stronger ranking, richer filters and facets, and ways to surface related records.
FAIRness improvements and AI-ready datasets in the EU Open Research Repository, with metadata, formats, and access patterns suited to downstream AI tooling.
Last update: April 28, 2026
We enhanced Zenodo's commenting system for submission reviews with several new features: LaTeX equation previews, quote functionality, direct comment replies, local draft autosave, comment collapsing, permalinks, and file attachments.
Completed April 2026
As part of the AIRDEC project, we achieved the first milestone which included setting up the initial infrastructure and beginning the development of AI-suggested metadata enhancements for research records.
Completed March 2026
As part of the Horizon-Zen Plus project, we published the first technical specifications for the new features for the EU Open Research Repository. They include the descriptions of the planned functionalities and UI mock-ups.
Completed February 2026
Currently, there's a number of actions that users need to contact our helpdesk in order to achieve. This includes for instance record deletions, quota increase requests and other standard support requests. We'll be focusing on improving self-service support which should ensure an improved user experience and faster replies, as well as reduced load on our supporters (we're currently handling 500-600 requests a month).
The concepts developed for the EU Open Research Repository is being developed and tested now the Biodiversity Literature Repository, which now has a branded portal on http://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/
The EU Open Research Repository will be expanded with improved curation capabilities through automated curation checks for Horizon Europe open science compliance. Learn more about the planned features in HORIZON-ZEN FAIR-enabling deposit workflow design
Completed March 2025
We will be improving overall FAIRness of Zenodo. This will also include support for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) as well as some smaller improvements for marine science.
Completed March 2025
As part of HORIZON-ZEN, we'll add support for custom visual identity on communities. The feature will only be available for specific communities.
Launched on EU Open Research Repository
The EU Open Research Repository will be expanded to allow projects to more easily sign up.
Completed June 2024.
As part of the FAIRCORE4EOSC project, we will be improving the support for software source code types in Zenodo, as well as integrate Zenodo with Software Heritage
Improvements are right now being tested on sandbox.zenodo.org
We will be working on performing regular updates of some of our backend vocabularies such as ROR (funders/affiliations), ORCID (names) and subject vocabularies (EuroSciVoc, Medical Subject Headings).
Planned July 2024
We will launch the SWH integration on Zenodo during summer 2024.
Planned October 2024
We will be working on a workflow for automatic detection and quality assurance of EU-funded records so that they can be included into the EU Open Research Repository.
Planned release in December 2024
The EU Open Research Repository will exit the pilot phase during autumn 2024. This will include improved browse capabilities and onboarding of EU-funded projects.
Planned September 2024
We will add support for sharing records and drafts with users. See docs.
We will be implementing several new spam mitigation measures to keep up with new changes in methods by spammers.
Planned November 2024
Support for storing and displaying WADM-based annotations for PDFs and images for the Biodiversity Literature Repository. Part of the work will focus on improving performance of the IIIF APIs so that we can make image Zoom generally available.
Planned July 2024.
As part of the BiCIKL project, provide the infrastructure to support the FAIR preservation of liberated data and next-generation semantic publishing in biodiversity.
Migrate our ElasticSearch infrastructure to OpenSearch.
Planned March 2023
We are migrating Zenodo's underlying technical platform to InvenioRDM. Follow the progress on https://zenodo-rdm.web.cern.ch as well as the InvenioRDM Roadmap
Completed October 13, 2023
We are kicking off a new EU-funded project that over the coming 2 years will adding multiple new features to communities such as branding capabilities, subcommunities, basic automated curation checks, and integrate third-party FAIR assessment tools directly in the Zenodo interface.
Webhook notifications support for community events.
Cancelled/postponed
Introduce safe listing of users and a process to safe list new users and block publishing from identified spammer domains.
Allowing user to enhance uploads with their domain-specific vocabulary metadata.
Being able to specify funding information for uploads on the funder level, or fill-in custom funding metadata.
Introduce a new Workflow upload type and integrate with REANA.
Add basic support for existing Zenodo legacy APIs in InvenioRDM and perform the first initial data migration tests.
Setup a Zenodo-themed instance of InvenioRDM and make it publicly available so that users can follow progress on the move to InvenioRDM.
Available on https://zenodo-rdm.web.cern.ch
Integrate with OpenAIRE AAI to allow researchers to sign-in via their institution.
Automatic retries for failed GitHub releases, better documentation on .zenodo.json, and overall easier troubleshooting.
Allowing users in the upload form to search and auto-fill author names coming from ORCiD's database.
In collaboration with the DBoD team at CERN, upgrade our databases to PostgreSQL v12.
Introduce a review workflow for adding records to communities.
Import a dataset of 300.000 biodiversity treatments records into Zenodo in collaboration with Plazi and Pensoft via an Arcadia Fund project.
Integration of Zenodo into the Dryad submission process.
Produce thumbnails via IIIF APIs with proper caching.
Support for two new resource types: Data Management Plan, Annotation Collection
Support for the DCAT export format via the DataCite XML to DCAT XSLT.
Improve the regular import of citations from NASA ADS, OpenAIRE ScholExplorer, CrossRef and EuropePMC.
Centralise logging of web server access logs into Elasticsearch cluster.
Migrate our Elasticsearch cluster to v7 on CERN's Elasticsearch On Demand service.
Beta support for geospatial, temporal and method metadata in the REST API (display and searching to come later).
Minor optimizations in the release processing workflow.