[Board] Proposal: Registration of a Zenodo group for the OSGeo Foundation

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Motion passed.

https://www.loomio.com/p/ghmxkQSN/motion-to-approve-registration-of-a-zenodo-group-for-the-osgeo-foundation

Best,
Angelos

On 1/5/25 16:31, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Motion open on Loomio:
> https://www.loomio.com/p/ghmxkQSN/motion-to-approve-registration-of-a-zenodo-group-for-the-osgeo-foundation 
>
>
> On 12/11/24 17:45, Peter Löwe via Board wrote:
>> Hello Board,
>>
>> I would like to propose that OSGeo registers itself as a "community" 
>> in Zenodo.
>>
>>
>> Within GitHub, OSGeo is already registered as an organsiation, which 
>> allows to provide an overview over all OSgeo-related GitHub software 
>> repositories: https://github.com/osgeo
>>
>>
>> Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/) is a long term open acess repository 
>> (being open source, non-commercial and friendly), which is already 
>> used by many OSGeo projects for digital long term preservation of 
>> their code releases and to obtain DOI for FAIR due credit by 
>> scientific citation.
>>
>> Currently, 24 OSGeo projects are using Zenodo for digital long term 
>> preservation: 
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI#DOI_available_for_OSGeo_Projects
>>
>> The innovative GMT project community has already registered as a 
>> Zenodo community. This allows them to have an overview of all things 
>> "GMT" preserved in Zenodo:
>> https://zenodo.org/communities/generic-mapping-tools/records
>>
>> Once a OSGeo community has been registered in Zenodo, we will be able 
>> to gain an overview of all OSGeo-related deposits in Zenodo, 
>> including software releases, but also data, publications, etc.
>>
>> OSGeo has already registered a ROR ID at the Research Organsiation 
>> Registry, which can be used as a unique ID for the OSGeo Zenodo 
>> community:
>> https://ror.org/00cjqbk89
>>
>> Details about the Zenodo community set-up process here: 
>> https://help.zenodo.org/docs/communities/
>>
>> Should the Board decide to register an OSGeo Zenodo group, we can 
>> appoint volunteers taking on different roles in the curation process 
>> in a next step (Reader, Curator, Manager, Owner).
>>
>> I it helps I'll gladly volunteer to drive this effort.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
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>

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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President, Board of Directors
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/