ResearchObject
RO-Crate is a community-led effort to provide a lightweight packaging format for research data and metadata, making research outputs FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
At a Glance
- Research Institutions
- Data Repositories
- Scientific Software Developers
- Funding Agencies
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RO-Crate
Research Data Packaging Spec
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A community-led specification for packaging research data and metadata using Schema.org and JSON-LD.
A profile of RO-Crate for capturing the provenance of workflow executions.
Developer libraries and command-line tools for creating and validating RO-Crates.
Market Position
RO-Crate is a lightweight alternative to more complex packaging formats like BagIt-based profiles, focusing on web-friendly metadata standards (Schema.org).
Leadership
Founders
Carole Goble
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, CBE, leader of the eScience Lab. Pioneer in Semantic Web, e-Science, and FAIR data. Principal Investigator of the Wf4Ever project.
Stian Soiland-Reyes
Research Associate at the University of Manchester eScience Lab. Key architect of the Research Object model and RO-Crate. Active member of ELIXIR and the Common Workflow Language (CWL) community.
Peter Sefton
Formerly at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), now at University of Queensland. Creator of DataCrate and co-chair of the RO-Crate community.
Oscar Corcho
Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Expert in Semantic Web and Linked Data. Co-founder of the Research Object initiative via the Wf4Ever project.
Executive Team
Stian Soiland-Reyes
Co-Chair, RO-Crate Community
University of Manchester
Peter Sefton
Co-Chair, RO-Crate Community
University of Queensland
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Rooted in the Wf4Ever project (2010-2013), the initiative arose from the need to preserve scientific workflows and their context. RO-Crate was later created to simplify the Research Object model using Schema.org.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open source community project; research and development funded by public grants (EU FP7, ELIXIR, EOSC, ARDC).
Pricing Tiers
The specification and core tools are open source and free to use.
Target Markets
- Research Institutions
- Data Repositories
- Scientific Software Developers
- Funding Agencies
- Data Preservation
- Research Data Publishing
- Workflow Reproducibility
- FAIR Data Management
- Galaxy Project
- WorkflowHub
- ELIXIR
- EOSC-Life