deploy2zenodo (version 0.6.5)

Abstract

deploy2zenodo is a shell script to deploy your data to zenodo. You can use it in a CI pipeline as an automatic workflow. Environmental variables allow very flexible use. Depending on the selected flags, the data can be curated before deployment in a merge request, in the zenodo web interface or not curated at all. To satisfy the FAIR principles, publications should be deployed to an open repository. In this way the publication gets a PID (persistent identifier) and at least the metadata is publicly accessible, findable and citable. Furthermore, current discussions about KPIs (key performance indicator) for software and data publications also lead to the need to generate PIDs for software and data. Especially software usually is not citable by a PID. To overcome this and make software academically significant we provide here a tool for automatic publication to the open repository zenodo. In principal the same is true for all kind of scientific data (e. g. measurements, software and results such as papers). For every data managed in a version control system an automatic publication to an open repository is useful3. Software in particular is subject to frequent changes, resulting in many versions. This leads to the urge to automate the publishing process. This is not only about making the software usable through software repositories, but also about the citability of individual versions.