Capturing “Just enough”
Data, Software and Metadata
with RO-Crate

 

Stian Soiland-Reyes

eScience lab, The University of Manchester

INDElab, University of Amsterdam

FAIR Festival 2021
FAIR Implementation Challenges & Solutions
2021-06-21


This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

@soilandreyes

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
https://slides.com/soilandreyes/

10.5281/zenodo.5007432

 

H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2 824087

H2020-INFRAEDI-2018-1 823830

H2020-INFRAIA-2017-1 730976

H2020-INFRADEV-2019-2 871118

H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1 823827

What is RO-Crate?

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

RO-Crate is method for self-decribed datasets as a digital object using a single Linked Data metadata document

Credit: Peter Sefton
Adapted from https://arkisto-platform.github.io/standards/ro-crate/

The dataset may contain any kind of
resource, about anything, in any format
as a file, URL or PID

Credit: Peter Sefton
Adapted from https://arkisto-platform.github.io/standards/ro-crate/

Each resource have a machine readable description in JSON-LD format

Credit: Peter Sefton
Adapted from https://arkisto-platform.github.io/standards/ro-crate/

A human-readable description/preview in an HTML file that lives alongside the metadata

Credit: Peter Sefton
Adapted from https://arkisto-platform.github.io/standards/ro-crate/

Provenance and workflow information can be included
– to assist in re-use of data and research processes

Credit: Peter Sefton
Adapted from https://arkisto-platform.github.io/standards/ro-crate/

RO-Crate Digital Objects may be packaged for distribution eg via Zip, Bagit and OCFL
– or simply be published on the Web

Credit: Peter Sefton
Adapted from https://arkisto-platform.github.io/standards/ro-crate/

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2011.08.004

RO-Crate capture Research Objects

Credit: Marco La Rosa, Peter Sefton

https://arkisto-platform.github.io/describo/

https://arkisto-platform.github.io/tools/description/describo-online/

Making your own RO-Crate with Describo

https://doi.org/10.4225/59/5a4d9b76d79f4
https://data.research.uts.edu.au/examples/ro-crate/0.2/Victoria_Arch_pub/

FAIR is not just machine-readable!

2. July 2021 CWFR call:
RO-Crate relationship with FDOs

https://osf.io/2cy86/

RO-Crate as FAIR Digital Object (FDO)

+ FAIR Signposting

https://arkisto-platform.github.io/case-studies/paradisec/

Capturing cultural heritage records
as RO-Crates

Credit: Oscar Corcho, Carole Goble
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4913285

RO-Crate as a archival format

Metadata held alongside hetereogeneous data

Exchange mechanism (import/export)

Avoid repository vendor lock-in

Extensible metadata model

https://about.workflowhub.eu/Workflow-RO-Crate/

https://pypi.org/project/galaxy2cwl/

Describing workflows
with RO-Crate

Containers

Describe workflow

Tests

Registry

Workflows

Authors and contributors

https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/profiles.html

Credit: Carole Goble
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021

https://www.slideshare.net/carolegoble/

 

RO-Crate Community

 

The RO-Crate Community is open for anyone to join us!

https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/community