Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI): “Infra Finder Grows: 90+ Open Infrastructures Now Available”

From an Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Post:

Open infrastructure — shared systems and resources supporting the creation, sharing, and preservation of research output and knowledge — is becoming increasingly crucial in the rapidly evolving world of research and scholarship. However, navigating this complex and dynamic landscape can be challenging for institutions and organizations.

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Infra Finder is a collection of validated open solutions that is designed to support informed decision-making.

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Up-to-date, verified information on 90+ open infrastructures

Infra Finder ensures that users can make well-informed decisions based on reliable, up-to-date details about open infrastructure solutions’ openness, community governance, interoperability, hosting options, etc.

• Our team works closely with infrastructure service providers in the data collection process: information is provided and reviewed by the service provider, and, where possible, validated against public data by our team members.
• Once approved for Infra Finder, open infrastructures can update data at-will using a new self-service portal, ensuring information stays current.

Introducing new open infrastructure categories to Infra Finder

Our newest release shows 37 new infrastructure services in Infra Finder and nine new solution categories. These include:

• Data and computational infrastructure
  • Computing framework: A collection of reusable software components that make it more efficient to develop new applications or workflows, e.g.: Galaxy
  • Computing library: A collection of pre-written code that can be used to perform specific tasks within an existing software, e.g. NumPy
  • Data management planning tool or service: A tool or service that helps individuals to write, share and export a data management plan, e.g.: Arches Heritage Data Management Platform, iRODS, Renku
  • Research software community: A platform that supports open software peer review, training, collection-building, or other functions that support adoption, evaluation, and maintenance of open software, e.g.: pyOpenSci, rOpenSci

• Digital preservation and archival infrastructure
  • Digital preservation service: A service that provides the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary. e.g.: Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), CLOCKSS, PKP Preservation Network
  • Digital preservation system: A software or platform that provides the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary. e.g.: Archivematica, DuraCloud
  • Digital preservation tool: A tool that facilitates any of the managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary. e.g.: DART (Digital Archivist’s Resource Tool)
  • Web archiving system: A software or platform that gathers, stores, preserves, and provides access to data that has been recorded on the internet. e.g.: Browsertrix, Thoth Open Metadata

We’ve also added new open infrastructures to our existing categories for content and data infrastructure, including, in a new solution category:

• Open access or subscription management tool: A tool that helps users monitor and report on the open access status of publications. e.g.: OA.Report

Learn More, Read the Complete Update Post From IOI

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