RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.0

Peter Sefton; Eoghan Ó Carragáin; Stian Soiland-Reyes; Oscar Corcho; Daniel Garijo; Raul Palma; Frederik Coppens; Carole Goble; José María Fernández González; Kyle Chard; Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez; Michael R. Crusoe; Ignacio Eguinoa; Nick Juty; Kristi Holmes; Jason A. Clark; Salvador Capella-Gutierrez; Alasdair J. G. Gray; Stuart Owen; Alan R. Williams; Giacomo Tartari; Finn Bacall; Thomas Thelen

doi:10.5281/zenodo.3541888

RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.0

Peter Sefton, Eoghan Ó Carragáin, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Oscar Corcho, Daniel Garijo, Raul Palma, Frederik Coppens, Carole Goble, José María Fernández González, Kyle Chard, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Michael R. Crusoe, Ignacio Eguinoa, Nick Juty, Kristi Holmes, Jason A. Clark, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Alasdair J. G. Gray, Stuart Owen, Alan R. WilliamsGiacomo Tartari, Finn Bacall, Thomas Thelen

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This document specifies 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.jsonld. 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.

Original language	English
Type	Specification
Media of output	Web
Publisher	Zenodo
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3541888
Publication status	Published - 15 Nov 2019

Keywords

research object
data packaging
metadata
schema.org
JSON-LD
linked data

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BioExcel-2 Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research
Goble, C., Soiland-Reyes, S., Long, R., Lowe, D., Woolland, O. & Capes, G.
1/01/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Research

1 Book
1 Abstract

RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.1
Sefton, P., Carragáin, E. Ó., Soiland-Reyes, S., Corcho, O., Garijo, D., Palma, R., Coppens, F., Goble, C., Fernández, J. M., Chard, K., Gomez-Perez, J. M., Crusoe, M. R., Eguinoa, I., Juty, N., Holmes, K., Clark, J. A., Capella-Gutierrez, S., Gray, A. J. G., Owen, S., Williams, A. R., & 18 othersTartari, G., Bacall, F., Thelen, T., Ménager, H., Rodríguez-Navas, L., Walk, P., whitehead, B., Wilkinson, M., Groth, P., Bremer, E., Castro, LJ. G., Sebby, K., Kanitz, A., Trisovic, A., Kennedy, G., Graves, M., Koehorst, J. & Leo, S., 30 Oct 2020, researchobject.org. 75 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book

Open Access
A lightweight approach to research object data packaging
Ó Carragáin, E., Goble, C., Sefton, P. & Soiland-Reyes, S., 24 Jun 2019.
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Stian Soiland-Reyes (Chair) & Peter Sefton (Chair)
15 Jan 2018 → …
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Sefton, P., Carragáin, E. Ó., Soiland-Reyes, S., Corcho, O., Garijo, D., Palma, R., Coppens, F., Goble, C., González, J. M. F., Chard, K., Gomez-Perez, J. M., Crusoe, M. R., Eguinoa, I., Juty, N., Holmes, K., Clark, J. A., Capella-Gutierrez, S., Gray, A. J. G., Owen, S., ... Thelen, T. (2019, Nov 15). RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3541888

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BioExcel-2 Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research

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RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.1

A lightweight approach to research object data packaging

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