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.