Credit-capture infrastructure
The platforms that turn artefact-level effort into machine-readable, citable credit — from persistent identifiers to granular contribution tracking to aggregated researcher profiles.
Primary credit-capture infrastructure
The three platforms with the broadest general-purpose functionality for crediting non-traditional research artefacts and the activity behind them — the artefact itself, rather than just the activity, is the primary focus.
Contribution tracking & incentives. Captures granular biocuration and annotation events using a dynamic model of entity, activity, agent, and timeline, with badges/leaderboards for visibility.
Academic profiles. Aggregates credit-relevant data into metadata-rich, human-readable researcher profiles tailored to discipline/contribution type.
Academic profiles. Persistent researcher identifier used to link contributions of any kind back to an individual across systems.
Registration & discovery
Platforms that give an artefact itself a live, registered digital presence — a discoverable record with a persistent identifier — which can then feed into the credit-capture platforms above. Registering software in bio.tools, for example, gives it a persistent identifier that ORCID or APICURON records can point back to; registering a database in FAIRsharing does the same for data. DOI-issuing registries such as Zenodo offer an even stronger guarantee of long-term permanence.
Publishing & PID provision. Specialised registry assigning persistent identifiers to research software and services for discovery and reuse.
Metadata enrichment. Adds impact-related annotations (e.g. topics, influence indicators) to research outputs.
Publishing & PID provision. Platform for discovering and registering life-science training materials and events.
Publishing & PID provision. Curated registry of data and metadata standards, databases, and repositories, giving each a discoverable, citable record independent of where the underlying data is hosted.
Publishing & PID provision. Version-controlled code hosting; the primary home for research software repositories prior to archival/PID assignment.
Aggregation. Merges PID-assigned research artefact information from diverse sources into a single, searchable knowledge graph.
Publishing & PID provision. Registry for computational workflows, providing citable, versioned identifiers.
Publishing & PID provision. General-purpose repository issuing DOIs for datasets, software releases, training materials, and reports.
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