Data exchange with RO-Crates and Knowledge Graphs

Workshop at Open Science Festival 2023, Köln, Germany

Citation: Soiland-Reyes, S., Castro, L. J., & Rebholz-Schuhmann, D. (2023, July 5). Data exchange with RO-Crates and Knowledge Graphs. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10552448 

Date: Wednesday 5th July 2023 09:30-12:30 CEST

• Room: Room John Nash (CECAD Lecture Hall)

• Agenda (below)

Chairs:

• Stian Soiland-Reyes (RO-Crate, ELIXIR-UK, BY-COVID, FAIR-IMPACT, EOSC-Life, EuroScienceGateway)

• Leyla Jael Castro  (Bioschemas, NFDI4DataScience, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences)

• Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (Scientific Director – ZB MED)

Abstract: 

Digital Objects (e.g., data, software) and formal knowledge representations (e.g., structured metadata) form the two sides of the Linked Open Science coin: scientists want to exchange their data as Open Science material, possibly embedding it into RO-Crates, while they also want to share their findings and knowledge in a formalised representation, possibly deploying Knowledge Graph representations. What is the meeting point between data distributed via RO-Crates and that one part of a Knowledge Graph? Do RO-Crates and Knowledge Graphs serve different types of data or do they complement each other? What would be the dis/advantages of having Knowledge Graphs in RO-Crates or RO-Crates as nodes in Knowledge Graphs? In this workshop, we will first introduce RO-Crates and then have a round table open discussion to compare the potentials of the different approaches for capturing the data and the knowledge of the scientific world.

RO-Crate is a community effort to practically achieve FAIR packaging of research objects (digital objects like data, methods, software) with structured metadata. RO-Crate uses well-established Web standards and FAIR principles. For common metadata representations, RO-Crate builds on schema.org, a mature and general mark-up vocabulary used by search engines including Google Dataset Search. RO-Crate is adapted by many EU/EOSC projects as a pragmatic implementation of the FAIR Digital Objects vision.

Agenda