How Prepared Is Your Repository for Disruption? An Invitation to Participate
tal...@tesserastrategies.org
Dear Repository Administrator of Virtual Fly Brain,
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:
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.
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.
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
