v2.6.0 — NTO Registry

This release closes a credit gap on Supervised Student Project Output, one
of only three artefact types in the catalogue that still had no live
credit-capture pathway recorded against it. ORCID's Teaching and Supervision
work-type group — Supervised student publication and Other teaching or supervision output — lets a supervisor claim a student-authored thesis or
paper as a discretely identified work on their own ORCID record, which is
exactly the credit direction this artefact describes: the supervisor's
mentorship contribution, not the student's authorship. The mapping is now
recorded as active. Two artefact types remain with an empty
supporting-infrastructure list.

What's in this release

The registry's primary assets are three curated YAML data files:

Asset	Contents
data/nto_catalogue.yml	24 artefact types — explanations, activities, examples, and the infrastructure that captures credit for each
data/infrastructure_catalogue.yml	18 platforms — credit-capturing infrastructure, cross-walked onto CoARA OI4RRA tiers
data/reform_initiatives.yml	7 initiatives — assessment reform initiatives and their NTO relevance

Archived alongside them as supporting software: site/ (the Astro + React
site published at https://nto-registry.org) and scripts/validate_yaml.py
(schema and reference-integrity validator).

Changes in v2.6.0

Added

• ORCID is now active supporting infrastructure for Supervised Student
  Project Output in data/nto_catalogue.yml, closing one of the catalogue's
  three remaining empty supporting-infrastructure lists. ORCID's Teaching
  and Supervision work-type group contains Supervised student publication
  ("articles on research findings published jointly with or supervised by the
  thesis adviser") and Other teaching or supervision output, which together
  let a supervisor claim a student-authored output as a discretely-identified
  work on their own record — the exact bar 1.2.2 set for keeping an ORCID
  mapping, and the credit direction this artefact is about (the supervisor's
  contribution, not the student's authorship). This artefact carried an ORCID
  mapping at status: planned until 2.0.0 removed the planned value
  wholesale; it returns as active now that the live pathway is confirmed
  rather than aspirational. Resolves #3, reported by @EvaAlloza.

Citation

This release is archived on Zenodo. Cite this exact version with its version
DOI, or the concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22306726
to always resolve to the latest.

v2.5.0 — NTO Registry

The first archived release of the NTO Registry. This version adds the ELIXIR
Research Software Ecosystem (RSEc) to the infrastructure catalogue, rewrites
the Ontologies & Controlled Vocabularies blurb to state the actual
output-centric gap, and removes a hardcoded platform count that had already
gone stale once.

It is also the point from which the registry becomes citable: every release
from here on is deposited in Zenodo with a permanent DOI, so the catalogue can
be referenced at an exact version and reused from a snapshot that will not
change underneath you.

What's in this release

The registry's primary assets are three curated YAML data files. They are the
catalogue itself — designed for direct reuse, adaptation to other research
domains, and machine consumption — not a by-product of the website.

Asset	Contents
data/nto_catalogue.yml	24 artefact types across 5 categories — explanations, the activities that produce them, real Life Science examples, and the infrastructure that captures credit for each
data/infrastructure_catalogue.yml	18 platforms — credit-capturing infrastructure, each cross-walked onto the CoARA OI4RRA four-tier architecture
data/reform_initiatives.yml	7 initiatives — international research assessment reform initiatives and what each means for non-traditional outputs

All three are attached to this release for direct download, and carry
added-in-version / last-modified-version provenance on every entry.

Archived in the same snapshot as supporting software — alongside the data, not
in place of it: site/, the Astro and React application published at
https://nto-registry.org, and scripts/validate_yaml.py, the schema and
reference-integrity validator run against every change.

Changes in v2.5.0

Added

• ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem (RSEc) added to
  data/infrastructure_catalogue.yml under Metadata enrichment — a metadata
  commons that unifies tool identifiers across eight software registries
  (bio.tools, Bioconda, Bioconductor, BioContainers, Debian Med, Galaxy
  Codex, OpenEBench, WorkflowHub) and cross-checks their records against each
  other. Three of those sources are already in this catalogue, so RSEc sits
  directly on infrastructure the registry already tracks. Mapped to CoARA
  OI4RRA Tier 2 (Scholarly Metadata Aggregators), which makes our Metadata
  Enrichment heading span CoARA Tiers 2 and 3 — a second concrete example of
  the two models cutting across each other.

Fixed

• The CoARA view's intro hardcoded "the same 17 platforms", which went stale
  the moment a platform was added. It now reads the count from the catalogue.

Changed

• Rewrote the Ontologies & Controlled Vocabularies section blurb. It now
  states what the vocabularies in production actually describe — CRediT is
  activity-centric, standardising the contributor roles behind an output
  rather than the output itself — and identifies the gap as output-centric:
  no widely adopted or established ontology for non-traditional outputs
  currently exists. Replaces the previous informal "dedicated NTO ontologies
  barely exist yet".

Citation

This release is archived on Zenodo as a dataset under CC BY 4.0, credited to
all 13 registry contributors. Cite this exact version with its version DOI, or
use the concept DOI to always resolve to the latest release — both are listed
on the Zenodo record linked from this release.

A note on earlier versions

Versions 1.0.0 through 2.4.2 predate this archiving setup and exist in
CHANGELOG.md only — they were never tagged, so they have no
DOI and cannot be retrospectively archived. v2.5.0 is release #1.