Zenodo Community
Introducing the MIDAS Network Zenodo Community
The MIDAS Coordination Hub invites MIDAS Network members to share their data and code through the new MIDAS Network community in the Zenodo data repository. Depositing data in Zenodo or a similar repository meets one requirement of the NIH’s 2023 Data Management and Sharing Policy, which expects researchers applying for NIH funding to post their data in a data repository or other appropriate platform by the time of their first associated publication or end of the performance period, whichever comes first. The MIDAS Network supports data- and code-sharing as one of the most promising routes towards making biomedical research more trustworthy, cost-effective, and equitable for all.
To share your data and code in the MIDAS Network community in Zenodo you will need to create a Zenodo account. You can also sign up with your GitHub account, if you manage your code in GitHub, or with if you track your publications and research projects using a unique ORCID ID. Then click the green “New upload” button from the MIDAS Network community page.
To upload data or code to the MIDAS Network community, click the green “New upload” button.
On the upload page, you can choose up to 100 files or 50 GB total to upload as part of a single deposit. You must provide some basic metadata such as a title for your deposit, creator information, and a date; other metadata is optional but recommended, as it will help make your data more discoverable on the web. You can also register a DOI for your deposit, which is required by most journals to cite datasets. At the end of the upload form, you may choose whether your deposit should be public or restricted. A restricted setting means that only specific Zenodo users will be able to download the files and may be appropriate for sensitive data. Click the “publish to community” button to send your record to a MIDAS Network community reviewer who will approve your submission or suggest metadata enhancements to make your deposit more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
If your data or code is already deposited in Zenodo and you want to include it in the MIDAS Network community, follow the steps in Zenodo’s guide on submitting to a community. Contributing your deposit in the MIDAS Network community is optional, but it can help make your data and code more discoverable when it is grouped with research outputs from other MIDAS Network members.
If you are applying for NIH funding, sharing your data in Zenodo will satisfy the requirements of Element 4a in the Data Management and Sharing Plan, “Data Preservation, Access, and Associated Timelines,” which asks researchers to identify the repository in which they will make their data publicly available. Zenodo’s NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan Guidance can help investigators answer specific questions about the metadata standards and tools for findability provided by the repository. The MIDAS Network’s Tips for Writing an NIH Data Management & Sharing Plan for Computational Modeling provides additional guidance on writing data management plans.