Brussels, Belgium, and Oslo, Norway, 12 June 2026. TIND Institutional Repository has been selected to power ORFEO, a Belgian open access repository used by 13 scientific institutions. ORFEO will migrate from locally hosted DSpace to a multi-tenant, cloud-hosted platform.
ORFEO is mandated by the Belgian Science Policy Office and is currently used by 13 scientific institutions with government status. The repository is an essential part of the federal Open Science Strategy and serves as a central platform for storing, managing and sharing scientific publications in accordance with modern Open Access standards.
ORFEO has been running on open source software DSpace version 6 on an on-premise infrastructure managed by Belnet. An upgrade to TIND IR is part of the broader Federal Open Science Cloud project, an initiative to make scientific data and publications from federal research institutions more accessible and integrated with European research infrastructures such as European Open Science Cloud and OpenAIRE. ORFEO currently contains over 13,000 publications.
With distinct submission forms, review workflows, search facets, and DOI minting (via DataCite) configured per tenant, TIND Institutional Repository allows each member institution to operate its own repository inside a shared environment, while letting the consortium retire its legacy DSpace installation. The first five member institutions, including the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), the Royal Library of Belgium, the State Archives, the Royal Museum for Central Africa, and the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, will go live first. The full consortium reaches production in October 2026.