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Published March 19, 2024 | Version v1
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Practical web-based FDOs with RO-Crate and FAIR Signposting

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences
  • 2. ROR icon University of Manchester
  • 3. ROR icon University of Amsterdam
  • 4. ROR icon Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
  • 5. Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research

Contributors

Description

Research Object Crate (RO-Crate) is a lightweight method to package research outputs along with their metadata. Signposting provides a simple yet powerful approach to navigate FAIR aspects of the scholarly objects on the Web.

Combining these technologies form a "webby" implementation of the FAIR Digital Object principles which is suitable for retrofitting to existing data infrastructures or even for ad-hoc research objects using regular Web hosting platforms.

In this tutorial we will give a brief introduction to the FDO principles, and show how they have been realised in deployments using HTTP, HTML and JSON. We demonstrate building FDO metadata using RO-Crate editors, briefly introducing the Web standard JSON-LD. Finally we publish the FDO using Signposting on the Web and assign a persistent identifier.

Methods

 

This session is organised as an interactive walk-through, with opportunity to discuss use cases and challenges. It aims to give the participants an overview of the technologies in order to continue training and experimentation at their own pace following the summit. Brief knowledge of Web technology (HTTP, HTML, JSON) is an advantage, but not a requirement.

Learning objectives:

  1. Knowledge of FDO principles and how they can be practically applied 
  2. Ability to create research objects FDOs with brief metadata
  3. Understanding of considerations for FDO deployment on the Web

Table of contents

The material provided is ideally presented over a 3 hour session so that the tutorials can be done at pace by participants on site. At FDO2024 we instead focused on discussion, with the tutorals left as "homework". 

Original agenda:

Time

 Lesson

13:30

Welcome - FDO Flavours
[FDO Summit Tutorial 2024.pdf]

13:35

Brief introduction to JSON-LD and "just enough Linked Data"
[JSON-LD intro.pptx.pdf]

13:45

HTTP signposting as a lightweight FDO overlay
[signposting-intro.pdf]

Tutorial: https://github.com/stain/signposting-tutorial
[signposting-tutorial-README.pdf]

14:00

Packaging data with their metadata in RO-Crate
[Overview of FAIR data publishing and RO-Crate.pptx.pdf]

Tutorial: https://www.researchobject.org/packaging_data_with_ro-crate/
[Packaging Data using RO-Crate.pdf]

14:10

Q & A

14:20

Demonstration of RO-Crate and Signposting in biodiversity
[Demonstration of RO-Crate and Signposting in biodiversity.pdf]

14:30

Demo: Adding metadata using the Crate-O graphical editor
https://language-research-technology.github.io/crate-o/

14:40

Discussion

15:00

End of session (Coffee Break before ST4)

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Lesson material from FDO2024

Related works

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Lesson: https://github.com/stain/signposting-tutorial (URL)
Lesson: https://www.researchobject.org/packaging_data_with_ro-crate/ (URL)

Funding

European Commission
FAIR-IMPACT – Expanding FAIR Solutions across EOSC 101057344
UK Research and Innovation
FAIR-IMPACT: Expanding FAIR Solutions across EOSC 10038992
European Commission
BioDT – Biodiversity Digital Twin for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities 101057437
UK Research and Innovation
BioDT: Biodiversity Digital Twin for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities 10038930
European Commission
BY-COVID – Beyond COVID 101046203
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
NFDI4DS 460234259
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
NFDI4Earth NFDI4Earth