3. RO-Crate
Overview
Presentation: Introduction to RO-Crate and JSON (15 minutes)
- Gathering diverse outputs; RO-Crate as a packaging format to support FAIR data
- The contents and structure of an RO-Crate
- Importance of profiles: community-defined content checklists
- Examples of RO-Crate in practice
Coffee break (30 minutes)
Tutorial: Packaging Data with RO-Crates (45 minutes)
- Turning a folder into an RO-Crate; Make metadata descriptors
- Describe the root; Add cross-references; Authorship
- Data and contextual entities; Visualize, validate, convert
Learning objectives
After completing the RO-Crates section of the tutorial, learners will be able to:
- Construct an RO-Crate by hand using JSON
- Describe each part of the Research Object
- Use basic JSON-LD to create FAIR metadata
- Connect different parts of the Research Object using identifiers
Audience prerequisites
Before attending the RO-Crates section of the tutorial, learners should already have:
- Files and folder organization and using an editor/IDE
- Familiarity with JSON file format
This part of the tutorial is meant to be read along with the RO-Crate specification, which learners are suggested to browse in advance.
Presentations
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Tutorial
The tutorial will follow: