Introducing Front Matter

Front Matter offers software development and hosting for the scholarly community.

Software Development

Front Matter offers software development contract work with a focus on the repository platform InvenioRDM, persistent identifiers, and metadata.

Front Matter prefers open source software and develops software written in Python, JavaScript, and Rust. Front Matter can help with the following tasks:

InvenioRDM Customization: Help with customizing InvenioRDM, the turn-key research data management repository. This includes configuration, theming, and development of new features needed for specific use cases or the broader InvenioRDM community.
DOI Registration: Help with integrating DOI registration with Crossref and/or DataCite into existing or new journal and/or repository platforms.
Research Information: Help with collecting and storing research information, for example the publications of the staff and students of an institution. Front Matter prefers working with open scholarly infrastructures such as ORCID, ROR, Crossref, DataCite, and OpenAlex.

Hosting

Front Matter helps with setting up and maintaining scholarly infrastructure, in particular the InvenioRDM research data management platform.

Front Matter prefers self-hosting over large cloud providers, and works with Hetzner and Coolify.