Infrastructure services for open, sovereign research data
Ekayana runs persistent identifier infrastructure for research and heritage data, covering registration, storage, metadata extraction, and discovery. The six services below share one stack, and they are designed to fit the repositories your institution already runs rather than replace them.
Service catalog
Each service composes with the others: an identifier registered in one flow is harvested, indexed, and resolvable in the rest. Public resolution and open metadata are free for everyone, member or not.
Register DIDs
Mint did:bio identifiers for datasets, papers, samples, and cultural artifacts. Each registration writes a W3C DID document, anchors it on the Solana registry, and stays publicly resolvable. There are no per-identifier charges.
Promote Reuse
Open metadata, explicit licensing, and content-addressed provenance make an output citable and reusable. Datasets bridged from Dataverse or Zenodo keep their DOIs and gain a verifiable identifier alongside them.
BioAgents Metadata Harvesting
Agents read deposited papers and datasets, extract structured metadata, and identify entities such as genes, species, methods, and places. The data owner reviews every record before it is published.
Enable Discovery
A knowledge graph links datasets, researchers, institutions, and concepts. Query it semantically or in plain language, and resolve any did:bio through the public resolver.
Integrate Workflows
Plain HTTP and JSON, with no SDK to install. Bridges for Dataverse and Zenodo, UCAN delegated credentials for automated pipelines, and dedicated gateways for institutions.
Registered Service Providers
Repository platforms and integrators that run Ekayana infrastructure for their own communities. The program covers technical review, integration certification, and listing.
Who uses this, and how
Ekayana is a non-profit membership organization. The communities below use the same infrastructure through different membership models. See how membership works, the fee schedule, or the founding network.
Researchers
Researcher tier, free
Upload data to IPFS, mint identifiers, and run BioAgents on your own papers without an institutional agreement. The free tier covers 100 registrations a year, 5 GB of pinned storage, and basic extraction. When a lab outgrows it, membership continues at the institutional level.
Repositories and libraries
Institutional Member
Register at scale and bridge existing holdings from Dataverse, Zenodo, and local systems, with every dataset keeping its DOI. The annual service fee covers up to 100,000 registrations a year and 100 GB of replicated storage.
Universities and institutions
Institutional Member
One identifier infrastructure for every faculty, lab, and archive, under institutional control and aligned with European data sovereignty requirements. Institutional Members also receive knowledge-graph insights, member only APIs, and a vote in governance.
Consortia and networks
Consortium
National networks and shared platforms coordinate a single membership through a Consortium Lead. Participating organizations pay no membership fee of their own and share costs on terms the consortium sets. Start with a membership inquiry.
Build on infrastructure your community governs
Members steer the roadmap, vote on governance, and keep their research data sovereign. Start a conversation with the community team, or go straight to the technical documentation.