How to create and manage your records

Authors: Danilo Marco Campanaro & Nicolò Dell'Unto- Last Update: 2026-02-23

Campanaro, D. M., Dell'Unto, N., & DARKlab. (2026, February 23). Video tutorials on how to create and manage your records in the Dynamic Collection Platform. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18390237

This tutorial series introduces users to the Dynamic Collection Plus platform (https://dyncolldev.ht.lu.se/plus/) and guides them through the essential steps required to manage, document, and publish digital heritage data. By following the tutorials, users will gain a practical understanding of the platform’s interface and learn how to prepare, upload, and connect their own 3D models and related metadata.

The series begins with an overview of the workspace and basic navigation within Dynamic Collection Plus. It then introduces the workflow for generating compressed NEXUS files, which are the required format for uploading and visualising 3D digital models on the platform.

Subsequent tutorials focus on the creation of two core record types: artifact items and model items. You will learn how to create these records and how to link them together in order to build a complete, coherent, and integrated documentation structure within the Dynamic Collection.

The tutorial series then addresses long-term preservation and data publication, presenting two alternative publication pathways.

The first option introduces Zenodo, a widely used international research repository. The tutorials demonstrate how to create a Zenodo record, upload files, define appropriate metadata, and link the Zenodo record to a corresponding record in Dynamic Collection Plus, ensuring citability, accessibility, and long-term availability of the data.

The second option focuses on the Swedish National Data Service (SND) and its data description and publication system DORIS (https://snd.se/sv/user/login). The video tutorials guide users through the process of describing and publishing datasets via DORIS, in accordance with SND workflows, making the data discoverable through the national research data portal Researchdata.se. In addition, the series includes tutorials on reusing existing metadata, demonstrating how metadata from an already published repository record—such as a Zenodo record—can be used as a basis for describing a dataset in DORIS. This approach supports efficient data management practices and helps avoid unnecessary duplication of work.

By the end of the tutorial series, users will have the foundational skills needed to document, publish, and interlink digital heritage data using Dynamic Collection Plus in combination with either Zenodo or SND/DORIS, making their work accessible, reusable, and preserved for both researchers and the wider public.

You can download the complete video series at this link 

Resources

• Dynamic Collection Plus — https://dyncolldev.ht.lu.se/plus/

• Zenodo — https://zenodo.org/

• DORIS (SND login) — https://snd.se/sv/user/login

• 3DHOP framework and NEXUS tools (for NXS/NXZ multiresolution models)— https://3dhop.net/download.php