From talisha at tesserastrategies.org Thu Dec 11 03:14:36 2025 From: talisha at tesserastrategies.org (talisha at tesserastrategies.org) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:14:36 -0800 Subject: [Cod-bugs] How Prepared Is Your Repository for Disruption? An Invitation to Participate Message-ID: [image: image.png] Dear Repository Administrator of Crystallography Open Database, We?re reaching out to share an initiative designed specifically with repository leaders in mind: the Repository Crisis Scorecards (RCS)?a community-driven effort, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to understand and strengthen the resilience of research data repositories. Across the scientific community, repositories face real and growing risks: funding changes, cyber disruptions, natural disasters, hardware failures, and personnel transitions. When disruptions occur, it?s not just data access that?s affected?research, innovation, and community preparedness are all impacted. The RCS was created to help repositories assess and prepare for these challenges. Whether your repository is well-established or newly formed, your experience and perspective are vital to this work. You can learn more about the project on our website . We invite you to engage in two key ways: 1. Complete the Project Interest Form The interest form allows you to share exactly how you?d like to engage with the project. By joining the mailing list you would also receive project updates and be the first to receive the final reports and recommendations. - Project Interest Form 2. Complete the RCS & Request Your Stipend The RCS (anonymous) takes about 20?30 minutes and helps repositories assess resilience across four real-world disruption scenarios. After completing it, you can request a stipend through a short feedback form. - Complete the RCS - RCS Feedback Form (Request Stipend) Thank you for your stewardship of critical research data and for considering this invitation. We hope you?ll join us in this work. If you?d like to explore the project in more detail, please use this link to schedule a conversation with our project lead: https://calendar.app.google/S66dAr6hPM1vUtX46. Warm regards, The RCS Project Team *In partnership with Tessera Strategies* rcs at esipfed.org https://esipfed.org/rcs [image: TS-Logo-Horizontal-xs.png] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: TS-Logo-Horizontal-xs.png Type: image/png Size: 6603 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 333727 bytes Desc: not available URL: