RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.0
Peter Sefton, Eoghan Ó Carragáin, Stian Soiland‐Reyes, Óscar Corcho, Daniel Garijo, Raúl Palma, Frederik Coppens, Carole Goble, José M. Fernández, Kyle Chard, Jose Manuél Gómez-Pérez, Michael Robin Crusoe, Ignacio Eguinoa, Nick Juty, Kristi Holmes, Jason A. Clark, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Alasdair J. G. Gray, Stuart Owen, Alan R Williams · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2019
Web-version: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.0 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.jsonld. 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.