Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate

Data Science

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Stian Soiland-Reyes¹  Peter Sefton³  Mercè Crosas⁴  Leyla Jael Castro⁵  Frederik Coppens⁶  José M. Fernández⁷  Daniel Garijo⁸  Björn Grüning⁹  Marco La Rosa^1,10  Simone Leo^1,11  Eoghan Ó Carragáin^1,12  Marc Portier^1,13  Ana Trisovic⁴  RO-Crate Community  Paul Groth²  Carole Goble¹ 

[1] Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester;Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam;Faculty of Science, University Technology Sydney;Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University;ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences;VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology;Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid;Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg;PARADISEC;Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia;University College Cork;Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

关键词: Data publishing;    data packaging;    FAIR;    Linked Data;    metadata;    reproducibility;    research object;   

DOI  :  10.3233/DS-210053

来源: IOS Press

【 摘 要 】

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 article11 is archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5146227.

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