Map datapackage to zenodo

[Rafnuss]

I've been wondering if there is a way to match a datapackage.json to the equivalent in zenodo (https://github.com/zenodo/zenodo/blob/master/zenodo/modules/deposit/jsonschemas/deposits/records/record-v1.0.0.json). I suspect that many data package will ultimately uploaded on zenodo, so it would be nice to have a match to ultimately have all of the datapakcage.json to be contained in the zenodo deposit record (accesible through the API easily).

I'm guess that such a functionality would be more relevant to software (e.g. https://github.com/frictionlessdata/frictionless-r) in comination with zenodo API (e.g. https://github.com/eblondel/zen4R), but I first wanted to know if there are any reasons why this is actually not a good idea.

[peterdesmet]

Frictionless and Zenodo are collaborating on a new functionality that will express Zenodo metadata (and the associated files in the deposit) as Data Package. This will be similar to the many other formats they already support. It will be added to the dropdown and be accessible through their API:

Note: I think the plan for now is that if the user has uploaded their own datapackage.json file, that the API will return that file, but default to generated information if not present. The publisher is thus in control of what is returned and consumers will have one API access point to get deposit information in the Data Package format.

@Stephen-Gates and @roll might be able to provide more information on the status of that functionality.

[Rafnuss]

So, there would still be not sync between datapackage.json and the zendo metadata. I guess it would require an alignment between datapackage specification and DataCite Metadata Schema which is actually quite far from easy, right?

I've been working on two R functions to:

• retrieve zenodo metadata from a DOI. The goal is to allow my non-R user to enter the metadata on zendo as a draft, reserve a DOI and built the datapackage on R (frictionless-r) based on these metadata and insure fully match between the two
• Create or update a zendo from a datapackage.

Are such functions of any interest for the frictionless-r package, maybe not as the mapping is quite clumsy on some cases...

[peterdesmet]

I would recommend to look into the deposits R package, which aims to make it a lot easier to deposit in Zenodo and uses frictionless-r to describe the resources. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but it’s developed by people I trust. It may cover some of your use cases.

[Stephen-Gates]

Sorry, no longer involved in this.