For years, the Invenio community has been known for powerful open-source repository solutions - especially InvenioRDM. But many institutions need more than a repository: they need a modern, flexible platform that also supports collections, loans, acquisitions, and patron services.

We've recently completed a major overhaul of our research data archive, datasafe, which is now built on InvenioRDM. Our team at the University of Münster's University and State Library (ULB) has been working to implement this open-source software, tailoring it to meet the specific needs of our researchers. datasafe is designed as a dark archive, where researchers can deposit their datasets for long-term preservation.

In today’s rapidly digitizing research landscape, the ability to preserve and share knowledge openly is not just a technological challenge, it’s a matter of equity and innovation. Yet, across much of West and Central Africa, many institutions still struggle with inadequate infrastructure for digital preservation.

We are excited to announce the release of InvenioRDM v13.0 on July 23, 2025! This new version brings a host of new features and improvements, building upon the strong foundation of previous releases. Try it Want to try the new features in v13.0? Just head over to the demo site. If you want to install it, you can follow the installation instructions.

KTH Data Repository - we added user guides and updated the KTH web-pages on research data management when the new repository was launched. On the 29th of January 2025, the KTH Data Repository was launched through a team effort supported by management and policies at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and by partnering up with the InvenioRDM community.

Image by Sandra Meyndt/University of Freiburg When InvenioRDM launched on 27th of October 2023 at the University of Freiburg under the label FreiData, campus storage options which minted DOIs for publications already existed. For over a decade, Freiburg has hosted an institutional repository called "FreiDok“, which is also used as a documentation system for the university's publication activity.

Merchandise Mart, River North, Chicago, IL by w_lemay, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons On September 19-20, 2024, members from the seven participating repositories in the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) met in Chicago for the GREI Year 3 Annual Meeting to celebrate the achievements of Year 3 of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded, data sharing and open science-focused, four-year initiative.

We are happy to announce the release of InvenioRDM v12.0! Released on August 1, 2024, it is the first InvenioRDM release since v11.0 was released on January 23, 2023, and it includes not only many bug fixes and small improvements but also several major new features listed below. Since the v11.0 release several InvenioRDM partners have launched InvenioRDM instances in production, including Zenodo, which migrated to InvenioRDM in October 2023.

The 19th annual Open Repositories conference took place June 3 - 6, 2024 in Göteborg, Sweden. Attendees benefitted from hundreds of presentations on innovations in the world of digital repositories, all focused around this year's conference themes of Community, Transparency, and Sustainability. In addition, ten workshops were presented on June 3rd, the InvenioRDM Workshop being one of only two to receive a full-day allotment.

From March 18 - 22 the InvenioRDM partner community met in Münster, Germany, to discuss current challenges and plans for the future of the project. While many smaller questions and issues were addressed immediately on-site, e.g. during one of the “merge parties” or in work sessions resulting from and building upon previous discussions, many sessions ended with clear lists of planned actions for the coming weeks and months.

The InvenioRDM partner community met in Münster, Germany from March 18 - 22, 2024, for our first in-person annual meeting in over four years. Forty-six attendees from over fifteen institutions spent the five days making connections, planning, and diligently working on all things InvenioRDM.