RO-Crate Metadata Specification 0.2
Creators
- Peter Sefton
- Eoghan Ó Carragáin
- Stian Soiland-Reyes
- Oscar Corcho
- Daniel Garijo
- Raul Palma
- Frederik Coppens
- Carole Goble
- José María Fernández
- 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
Contributors
Description
Web-version: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/0.2
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.