Academic knowledge today is not conveyed only by journal articles: the data behind research now vastly exceeds what a paper can contain. Universities and funding bodies increasingly require research data to be open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Yet publishing, archiving and reusing data remains difficult, because datasets must be curated—validated, described with metadata, and linked to the right repositories and workflows. Solidipes is a Python-based tool that helps researchers curate, visualize, share and publish datasets. DCSM is its companion cloud platform that lets users deploy Solidipes curation sessions directly in a web browser, without installing software locally. Together they support researchers throughout the data life cycle.

Originally built for computational solid mechanics, this project extended Solidipes so it can serve other disciplines.

Features offered by Solidipes and DCSM now include:

• Interactive visualization of datasets through a web-based curation interface.
• Automated generation of curation reports documenting data, metadata, reproducibility files and scripts.
• Import and export from/to multiple repositories, including Zenodo, DSpace, Invenio and dtool.
• Rclone integration for broad interoperability with storage services.
• Remote access to DCSM sessions via Rclone and SSH.
• A plugin system for domain-specific file loaders, viewers, scanners and ontologies.
• Support for workflows (Makefile, Snakemake) and RO-Crate metadata packaging.
• Ontology-driven validation with a Pydantic description plus RO-Crate metadata export for richer, standards-based packaging.
• Cross-platform use on Linux, macOS and Windows.
• Seamless import of datasets from platforms such as MMODA, Galaxy and Zenodo.
• Seamless export of curation sessions to Renku.
• An astrophysics plugin with FITS file support and an Aladin Lite viewer.
• New storage integrations, including DSpace/Invenio-style export and a dtool

scanner for German academic repositories.

• session-spawning links creating DCSM or Renku live sessions.

Looking ahead, Solidipes and DCSM will remain open-source and maintainable through their plugin architecture. They are already used to reinforce FAIR data publication in the diamond-open-access journal JTCAM, and we will keep working with the EPFL Library

and the Renku team so that Solidipes becomes a recommended curation path for EPFL researchers and beyond.