IOV LABSThis is a milestone for the lab. IOV LABS' open-source work has entered the permanent scientific record. Two repositories, the 0x-lang compiler and the Korean text-rendering benchmark, now carry DOIs minted on Zenodo, the open-science archive operated by CERN. The very identifier that anchors peer-reviewed papers now anchors our code and our data, frozen at an exact version and citable for good.
Code that earns a place in the record
A DOI is not a vanity badge. It is the citation backbone of modern science, the same mechanism a journal article uses, and it is issued only against a fixed, archived artifact. 0x-lang is preserved at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20444237, and the Korean text-rendering benchmark at 10.5281/zenodo.20444235. Each is a snapshot that will still resolve decades from now, long after branches move and links rot, exactly as it was when the claim was made.
Why this is a big deal
Most software lives on a branch that can vanish overnight. Moving the lab's work into a CERN-backed archive gives it the same permanence scholarship relies on, and it does something rarer for an independent, token-funded lab: it makes the work answerable. Anyone, anywhere, years from now, can cite the exact artifact and check whether the numbers still hold. For a lab that stakes everything on honesty and reproducibility, there is no stronger signal.
Most code lives on a branch that can disappear. Ours now lives in the scientific record.
Built to stay current, automatically
And it keeps itself up to date. Each repository is wired to Zenodo, so every GitHub release mints a new version DOI with no manual step, while the README badge always points to the latest. Paired with the founder's ORCID iD, both the people and the work behind IOV LABS now carry stable, public, permanent identifiers.