User Guide

Solidipes is a Python-based platform for organizing, curating, and publishing scientific research datasets. It helps researchers prepare datasets for FAIR-compliant publication.

This guide explains how to install Solidipes, create projects, curate datasets, and publish research outputs using the platform.

Try it Live

Explore Solidipes without installing anything:

Solidipes Live Demo

This live session demonstrates a real dataset curation workflow on a shared DCSM server. Multiple users can collaborate in real time. The content is reset regularly.

Getting Started

To quickly get started with Solidipes, follow the Getting Started section.

Tutorials

For an applied tutorial on how to use Solidipes, follow the Tutorials section. For example:

• Download a dataset

• Edit metadata

• Visualize and curate data

• Publish datasets to Zenodo

Help and Documentation

If you encounter issues or have suggestions, please open an issue on GitLab.

Contents

• Getting Started
  • Installation and Setup
  • Initializing a Solidipes project
  • Launching the web interface
• Tutorials
  • Downloading a dataset from Zenodo
  • Metadata, README, and Description
  • Data curation
  • Publishing Research Data
  • Sharing with Renku
  • Remote and cloud storage
  • Solidipes plugins
  • Creating a Virtual Environment
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • What is Solidipes for?
  • Is Solidipes only available for Linux?
  • Is there an upload size limit?
  • One of my files is loaded as binary
  • Enabling command auto-completion
  • How do I reinitialize a study if the .solidipes folder already exists?
• Documentation in Videos
  • Introduction
  • Solidipes installation
  • Initialize a Solidipes dataset (from the terminal)
  • From the terminal
  • Solidipes’ web interface
  • Manage datasets from the online web service DCSM