Alliance4XR has made several project data sets publicly available through leading European open science platforms such as Zenodo, OpenAIRE and DataCite. Published under open licenses and assigned permanent digital identifiers (DOIs), these resources support the reuse of knowledge, foster collaboration within the scientific community and contribute to the wider adoption of XR technologies in education and training.

According to Erasmus+ Program Guide, “Erasmus+ promotes open access to project outputs to support learning, teaching, training, and youth work. Erasmus+ beneficiaries must make all educational resources and tools created through Program-supported projects freely accessible to the public under an open license.”

During the early stages of the Alliance4XR project, several preparatory studies were carried out, such as surveys of training needs in XR technologies, current supply of XR training and inventories of documented use cases. These raw data sets are now published on portals supported by the EU under open licenses (CC-BY).

The data sets, associated metadata and DOI’s (digital object identifiers) have been uploaded on the Zenodo portal (www.zenodo.org), under the umbrella of the Alliance4XR community. All Alliance4XR data sets can be retrieved by searching for the Alliance4XR community and then accessing the metadata for each data set.

The metadata about the Alliance4XR resources are also harvested by other EU initiatives, such as the OpenAIRE Explore portal (https://explore.openaire.eu/) and the DataCite Commons initiative (https://datacite.org/). Since additional portals are continuously harvesting metadata at OpenAIRE and DataCite, our resources are getting a continuously wider visibility.

By publishing our data sets in these scientific ecosystems, we are making them available and re-usable to the wider scientific community.