RESILIENCE has expanded the range of its services significantly. The presentation of around 120 community services in its User Services Catalogue is an important step toward providing easy access to digital and physical data on religion, and relevant services via one access point.
The User Services Catalogue constitutes the first consolidated catalogue of a wide range of services within RESILIENCE. It marks a major milestone in RESILIENCE’s journey toward a sustainable, user-oriented research infrastructure. The catalogue distinguishes between core services, which are provided by the research infrastructure, and community services, offered by RESILIENCE’s partners. All services aim to help users find and gain access to libraries, archives, datasets, data and tools available throughout Europe.
Our interactions with researchers in the study of religion have shown that their top research needs are the discoverability of data sources and data access, and networking, mobility and transnational access. The catalogue presents around 120 services that meet these needs, thus guaranteeing its usefulness to the research community. By consolidating community services through a harmonised metadata model and shared governance framework, it delivers both transparency and interoperability.
The presentation of these services is an important step toward providing easy access to digital and physical data on religion and to relevant services via one access point.
As of today, the core services are: a data repository solution for the publication of FAIR research data (Zenodo Community), an elaborate Transnational Access program providing access to and expertise on physical and digital collections, and a data hub and discovery environment providing access to a wide variety of digital objects (ReIReSearch). A dedicated training program will be added to the core services in future. The list of community services is presented in the form of an overview containing links to the relevant webpages. This overview is accessible via the RESILIENCE Zenodo Community, where the text of the User Services Catalogue (Deliverable D2.2) can also be found.
All services are already available under various conditions, except for the training program. The catalogue itself will evolve as RESILIENCE expands the research infrastructure further and will also include services of other institutions. A more detailed online overview of RESILIENCE’s services can be expected in the first few months of 2026, and the searchable RESILIENCE Service Portal will be launched later.
Contact for more information: Nyala Nauwelaers, KU Leuven
Deliverable D2.2, the User Services Catalogue