The first version of the IPPOG’s Resource Database was released in 2011 as the “best practice” exchange platform. Almost 400 items have been collected till 2020. For several years discussions within IPPOG were considering how to improve the functionality, keep the content up-to-date and provide the full range coverage of relevant physics topics. As a result new Resource Database has been developed as part of the new IPPOG digital portfolio between 2018-2021 in close collaboration with IPPOG community and its target audiences (especially high school physics teachers) offering more user-friendly way of navigating, search, submissions and feedback.

IPPOG aims the information in RDB to be readily understandable and regularly updated to reflect the latest discoveries in particle physics.

In 2020 an official RDB curation group, including teachers, scientists and science educators proposed by IPPOG Forum members, from almost 20 countries, CERN and different international experiments, has been created with mandate to review nearly 400 resources collected over past 10 years to ensure that these are still correct and useful and to assign new tags following new taxonomy. A new tag ‘school topic’ has been added, which helps teachers to identify where in their classical physics curriculum they can use the particular resource. At the same time many new items have been collected by RDB Working Group created in 2021 in order to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of outreach and educational materials in particle physics and related sciences worldwide.