Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate
A lightweight approach to research object data packaging
RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.1 (single-page HTML)
RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.1 (PDF)
Research Object Crate (RO-Crate) website
Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate (RO-Crate)
Acrobat PDF 1.4 - Portable Document Format
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference 2019
This specification defines a method, known as RO-Crate (Research Object Crate), of organizing file-based data with associated metadata, using linked data principles, in both human and machine readable formats, with the ability to include additional domain-specific metadata. The core of RO-Crate is a JSON-LD file, the RO-Crate Metadata File, named ro-crate-metadata.json. This file contains structured metadata about the dataset as a whole (the Root Data Entity) and, optionally, about some or all of its files. This provides a simple way to, for example, assert the authors (e.g. people, organizations) of the RO-Crate or one its files, or to capture more complex provenance for files, such as how they were created using software and equipment. While providing the formal specification for RO-Crate, this document also aims to be a practical guide for software authors to create tools for generating and consuming research data packages, with explanation by examples.
A lightweight approach to research object... - Stian Soiland-Reyes - OBF: BOSC - ISMB ECCB 2019