This record documents the first public release of the NVO987 Research Infrastructure software repository. The software provides the technical and metadata infrastructure supporting the NVO987 Visual Theory research project, including reproducible research assets, citation metadata, and persistent scholarly identifiers. The repository contains source code, structured metadata (CITATION.cff, codemeta.json, schema.org), licensing information (CC BY 4.0), and persistent identifiers (ORCID, ISNI, W3ID) to ensure long-term citability and interoperability. This release is intended as a citable research software package.

First public release of the NVO987 Research Infrastructure repository. Includes: CITATION.cff codemeta.json schema.org metadata CC-BY 4.0 license persistent identifiers (ORCID, ISNI, W3ID) This release is intended as a citable research software package. 

If you use this software, infrastructure, or its metadata in research, teaching, or derivative work, please cite the Zenodo DOI of this release.