Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate

作者：Stian Soiland‐Reyes, Peter Sefton, Mercè Crosas, Leyla Jael Castro, Frederik Coppens, José M. Fernández, Daniel Garijo, Björn Andreas Grüning, M. Rosa, Simone Leo, Eoghan Ó Carragáin, Marc Portier, Ana Trišović, RO-Crate Community, Paul Thomas Groth, Carole Goble · 发表于：Data Science · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.3233/ds-210053 · 被引用次数：200 · 研究领域：Scientific Computing and Data Management、Research Data Management Practices、Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

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 enhancing research reproducibility. An RO-Crate for this article 1 1 https://w3id.org/ro/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5146227 is archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5146227 .