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Published October 30, 2020 | Version 1.1.0
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RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.1

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Web-version: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1

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.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.

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Recommendation published by researchobject.org - see https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1 for web version.

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https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1
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https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/1.1/

Cites
Technical note: 10.17487/RFC2119 (DOI)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-json-ld-20140116/ (URL)
Technical note: 10.17487/RFC7159 (DOI)
Technical note: 10.17487/RFC3986 (DOI)
https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/ (URL)
10.25490/a97f-egyk (DOI)
Technical note: 10.17487/RFC8493 (DOI)
https://w3id.org/ro/2016-01-28/ (URL)
https://github.com/duraspace/pcdm/wiki (URL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif (URL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BagIt (URL)
10.25490/a97f-egyk (DOI)
Technical note: https://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/ (URL)
Is documented by
https://w3id.org/ro/crate (URL)
Is identical to
https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate/releases/tag/1.0.0 (URL)
Is new version of
Technical note: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.0 (URL)
Is supplemented by
Software: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1/context (URL)
https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate (URL)
References
https://www.researchobject.org/ (URL)
https://schema.org/ (URL)
https://ocfl.io/ (URL)
https://orcid.org/ (URL)
https://ror.org/ (URL)
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Default.aspx (URL)
https://www.geonames.org/ (URL)
https://omeka.org/ (URL)
http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/interviewee (PURL)
http://neologism.ecs.soton.ac.uk/bibo.html#interviewee (URL)