Welcome to Muoniverse Data Management

A research-data repository for the NCCR Muoniverse consortium: deposit datasets, version them, give them citable identifiers, and share them with collaborators. This is a five-minute tour of what the platform can do — try each step with the demo account you were given.

This is a demo. Please don't upload real or confidential data — records may be deleted and the site can be taken down at any time without notice.

Publish your first record in two minutes

Click New record in the top menu.

Choose a community to share with, drag in a small test file, and fill the required fields (resource type, title, author, description).

Click Save draft — it stays private to you — then Share with community to publish it.

Then explore the four capabilities below.

1 Records, versions & immutability

A record bundles your files with descriptive metadata (title, authors, description, resource type, keywords). It starts life as a private draft; you publish it by sharing it with a community.

Once published, a record is immutable: its files and its community are frozen and it stays permanently available. You can still correct the metadata, but to change the actual data you publish a new version — the earlier version is never overwritten and remains citable on its own. That permanence is exactly what makes a record safe to cite in a paper.

Fix a typo in metadata anytime via Edit on the record.

Change the data: New version → Import files → swap files → publish. Both versions stay accessible.

Every version keeps its own identifier and shows up in the record's Versions panel.

2 Private records you choose to share

A record is private until you decide otherwise. You control who can see it by choosing which community it belongs to. Your demo account already has one record of each kind waiting in My records:

Demo N: private muon dataset — shared only with your personal workspace (the community Demo N workspace, which only you belong to), so you alone can see it.

Demo N: shared muon dataset — shared with NCCR Muoniverse, so every member of the consortium can read it and download its files.

Open My records to see both, and Shared records to browse everything the consortium has shared. When you create a new record, the community you pick in the deposit form is what decides its audience.

3 Open to external contributors

A community is not a one-person silo. It can be opened up so that people beyond its original owner contribute to it: members can be invited (as readers, curators or managers), and a community can accept record submissions from outside contributors that its curators review and approve before they appear. A dataset can therefore grow as a shared, curated collection rather than a single static upload.

4 Citable DOIs you can share

When you publish, the record is assigned a DOI — a permanent identifier you can drop into a paper or send as a link. Each version gets its own DOI, plus a concept DOI that always resolves to the latest version.

On this demo, DOIs use an internal 10.muoniverse test prefix and are not registered with the global DataCite registry, so they won't resolve outside this site. They behave exactly like real DOIs would on a production instance.

Going further

Hand a single record to one person via a private link — see Share links.

Search shared records by keyword, author or facet from Shared records.

Everything here is also available over a REST API — see the InvenioRDM API reference.

Read the FAQs, or get in touch at khsrali@gmail.com.