InvenioRDM
Highly scalable turn-key research data management platform with a beautiful user experience.
Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.
Commit activity more than 52% of tracked projects; popularity more than 10%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 181 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | 23 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Python |
Is InvenioRDM actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 301 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 61 of them.
No tagged releases are published, so there is no stable version to pin to — you would deploy from the default branch or a container image built from it.
InvenioRDM ranks #3 of 6 in Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What InvenioRDM actually does
InvenioRDM is an institutional repository and digital library platform built to manage and publish academic and research data collections. Written in Python and released under the MIT licence, it provides a structured system for organisations to ingest, store, and serve large volumes of scholarly output.
Best fit: It is suited for university libraries, research institutions, and organisations needing a dedicated platform to archive and share scholarly datasets.
Worth knowing: The moderate maintenance activity and lack of recent tagged releases suggest you should evaluate community momentum carefully before committing to long-term production use.
Deployment notes
As a Python application, it typically requires a WSGI or ASGI server, a persistent relational database backend, and a reverse proxy for TLS termination and static asset handling.
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