Invenio

Original author(s)| CERN
Developer(s)| CERN and external contributors
Initial release| 30 June 2006; 19 years ago (2006-06-30)
Stable release|

3.1.0[1] / 12 March 2019; 6 years ago (12 March 2019)

Repository|

* github.com/inveniosoftware/invenio

Written in| Python, JavaScript
Operating system| Unix-like, macOS
Available in| Multi-lingual
Type| Institutional repository, digital library, digital asset management (DA), research data management, integrated library system
License| MIT
Website| inveniosoftware.org

Invenio is a software framework for large-scale digital repositories that provides the tools for managing digital assets in an institutional repository and research data management systems. The software is typically used for open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content and as a digital library.[2][3] It is free and open source software released under an MIT License.

Invenio is initially developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with both individual and organisational external contributors and is freely available for download.[citation needed]

## History

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Before 1 July 2006, the package was named CDSware, then renamed CDS Invenio,[4] and now known simply as Invenio.[4][5]

## Standards

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Invenio complies with standards such as the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses JSON/JSONSchema as its underlying bibliographic format.[6]

## Support

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The service provider TIND Technologies, an official CERN spin-off based in Norway, offers Invenio via a software-as-a-service model.[7] TIND presents itself as focused on library technologies.[3]

Variants of Invenio are offered by TIND for library services as TIND ILS, DA, IR and RDM[8] under a fully hosted and open-core model.[citation needed]

## Users

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Invenio is used outside of its original home within CERN, including SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[7] SPIRES migrated to Invenio in October 2011 with the INSPIRE-HEP site, a joint effort of CERN, DESY, SLAC and FNAL.[9]

In 2014, the package was chosen to be the digital library software of all national universities in the western Africa regional economic community UEMOA which includes eight countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo.[10]

The research data repository Zenodo at CERN is basically run under Invenio v3, wrapped by a small extra layer of code that is also named Zenodo.[11] To simplify reuse of the Zenodo codebase, several institutions have joined in 2019 to distribute an institution-agnostic package under the name of InvenioRDM.[12]

The German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) use Invenio for its record keeping software.[13]

## See also

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* Free and open-source software portal

* Digital repository, library
* Institutional repository

## References

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1. ^ "Release 3.1.0". 12 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
2. ^ "Invenio instances around the world". 2016–2025. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
3. ^ a b "TIND: Reimagining Library Technology". TIND.io. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
4. ^ a b "CDS Invenio v0.90.0 is released". GitHub. CERN Document Server Software Consortium. 30 June 2006. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
5. ^ "Invenio: Powering Open Science". Invenio Software. CERN Document Server Software Consortium. 2016–2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
6. ^ "Features". Invenio software. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
7. ^ a b Purcell, Andrew (2 November 2015). "A spin-off company helps unlock the full potential of Invenio software". CERN Bulletin. No. 45–46/2015. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
8. ^ Enis, Matt (1 June 2017). "Academic Libraries Implement New ILS, IR Developed by CERN". Library Journal. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
9. ^ Rezendes Khirallah, Diane (24 May 2012). "Physicists, start your searches: Inspire database now online". Symmetry: Dimensions of Particle Physics.
10. ^ "A virtual library for 8 UEMOA countries under discussion in Dakar". UNESCO. 14 April 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
11. ^ "Zenodo". Git hub. MS. 12 May 2021.
12. ^ "InvenioRDM: a turn-key open source research data management platform". Invenio software. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
13. ^ "Welcome to invenio, the research application of the Federal Archives [Bundesarchiv]" (in German).

## External links

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* Official website
* Invenio digital repository framework on GitHub
* Short description about some of the features of Invenio
* Service provider for Invenio support, installation, training, etc