Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate
Creators
- 1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK; Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, NL
- 2. Faculty of Science, University Technology Sydney, AU
- 3. Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US
- 4. ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Cologne, DE
- 5. VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, BE
- 6. Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, ES
- 7. Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, ES
- 8. Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, DE
- 9. PARADISEC, Melbourne, Australia
- 10. Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Pula (CA) , Italy
- 11. University College Cork, IE
- 12. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee}, Oostende, BE
- 13. Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, NL
- 14. Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK
Description
An increasing number of researchers support reproducibility by including pointers to and descriptions of datasets, software and methods in their publications. However, scientific articles may be ambiguous, incomplete and difficult to process by automated systems. In this paper we introduce RO-Crate, an open, community-driven, and lightweight approach to packaging research artefacts along with their metadata in a machine readable manner. RO-Crate is based on Schema.org annotations in JSON-LD, aiming to establish best practices to formally describe metadata in an accessible and practical way for their use in a wide variety of situations.
An RO-Crate is a structured archive of all the items that contributed to a research outcome, including their identifiers, provenance, relations and annotations. As a general purpose packaging approach for data and their metadata, RO-Crate is used across multiple areas, including bioinformatics, digital humanities and regulatory sciences. By applying "just enough" Linked Data standards, RO-Crate simplifies the process of making research outputs FAIR while also contributes to enhancing research reproducibility.
An RO-Crate for this article is available.
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Funding
- BioExcel-2 – BioExcel Centre of Excellence for ComputationalBiomolecular Research 823830
- European Commission
- EOSC-Life – Providing an open collaborative space for digital biology in Europe 824087
- European Commission
- IBISBA 1.0 – Industrial Biotechnology Innovation and Synthetic Biology Accelerator 730976
- European Commission
- SYNTHESYS PLUS – Synthesis of systematic resources 823827
- European Commission
- PREP-IBISBA – Industrial Biotechnology Innovation and Synthetic Biology Accelerator Preparatory Phase 871118
- European Commission