Zenodo JSON file

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A .zenodo.json file can be added to your GitHub repository to describe the software after it is preserved in Zenodo.

Note: If your repository contains both a .zenodo.json and a CITATION.cff file, Zenodo will only use the .zenodo.json metadata. The CITATION.cff will be completely ignored for the GitHub release archiving.

Why use .zenodo.json? The .zenodo.json format supports Zenodo-specific metadata that CITATION.cff does not yet support, such as:

• Funding information via the grants field
• Zenodo communities via the communities field
• Other Zenodo-specific fields like access_right, related_identifiers, and contributor roles

If you don't need these Zenodo-specific features, a CITATION.cff file alone is sufficient.

Create a .zenodo.json file

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Find below an example of a .zenodo.json file:

{
    "creators": [
        {
            "name": "Carberry, Josiah",
            "orcid": "0000-0002-1825-0097",
            "affiliation": "Brown University",
            "type": "ProjectMember"
        }
    ],
    "contributors": [
        {
            "name": "Lovelace, Ada",
            "type": "Researcher"
        },
        {
            "name": "Babbage, Charles",
            "affiliation": "University of Cambridge",
            "type": "ProjectLeader"
        }
    ],
    "title": "Memory bus simulation scripts",
    "version": "1.8.0",
    "access_right": "open",
    "related_identifiers": [
        {
            "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.5555/666655554444",
            "relation": "isSupplementTo",
            "resource_type": "publication-article"
        }
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "computer science",
        "psychoceramics",
        "journaling filesystems"
    ],
    "license": "mit",
    "upload_type": "software",
    "language": "eng",
    "grants": [
        {"id": "10.13039/501100000780::101122956"}
    ],
    "communities": [
        {"identifier": "simulation-software"}
    ]
}