RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.1.2
Creators: name: Sefton, Peter
name: Ó Carragáin, Eoghan
name: Soiland-Reyes, Stian
name: Corcho, Oscar
name: Garijo, Daniel
name: Palma, Raul
name: Coppens, Frederik
name: Goble, Carole
name: Fernández, José M.
name: Chard, Kyle
name: Gomez-Perez, Jose Manuel
name: Crusoe, Michael R.
name: Eguinoa, Ignacio
name: Juty, Nick
name: Holmes, Kristi
name: Clark, Jason A.
name: Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador
name: Gray, Alasdair J. G.
name: Owen, Stuart
name: Williams, Alan R.
name: Tartari, Giacomo
name: Bacall, Finn
name: Thelen, Thomas
name: Ménager, Hervé
name: Rodríguez-Navas, Laura
name: Walk, Paul
name: whitehead, brandon
name: Wilkinson, Mark
name: Groth, Paul
name: Bremer, Erich
name: Castro, Leyla Jael
name: Sebby, Karl
name: Kanitz, Alexander
name: Trisovic, Ana
name: Kennedy, Gavin
name: Graves, Mark
name: Koehorst, Jasper
name: Leo, Simone
name: Portier, Marc
name: Brack, Paul
name: Ojsteršek, Milan
name: Droesbeke, Bert
name: Niu, Chenxu
name: Tanabe, Kosuke
name: Miksa, Tomasz
name: La Rosa, Marco
name: Decruw, Cedric
name: Czerniak, Andreas
name: Jay, Jeremy
name: Serra, Sergio
name: Siebes, Ronald
name: de Witt, Shaun
name: El Damaty, Shady
name: Lowe, Douglas
name: Li, Xuanqi
name: Gundersen, Sveinung
name: Radifar, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: research object
data packaging
metadata
schema.org
JSON-LD
linked data

description: <strong>Web-version:</strong> https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1 This document specifies a method, known as <em>RO-Crate</em> (Research Object Crate), of aggregating and describing research data with associated metadata. RO-Crates can aggregate and describe any resource including files, URI-addressable resources, or use other addressing schemes to locate digital or physical data. RO-Crates can describe data in aggregate and at the individual resource level, with metadata to aid in discovery, re-use and long term management of data. Metadata includes the ability to describe the context of data and the entities involved in its production, use and reuse. For example: who created it, using which equipment, software and workflows, under what licenses can it be re-used, where was it collected, and/or where is it <em>about</em>. RO-Crate uses JSON-LD to to express this metadata using linked data, describing data resources as well as contextual entities such as people, organizations, software and equipment as a series of linked JSON-LD objects - using common published vocabularies, chiefly schema.org. The core of RO-Crate is a JSON-LD file, the <em>RO-Crate Metadata File</em>, named <code>ro-crate-metadata.json</code>. This file contains structured metadata about the dataset as a whole (the <em>Root Data Entity</em>) 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.
description: Recommendation published by researchobject.org - see https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1 for web version.