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 is available at https://www.researchobject.org/2021-packaging-research-artefacts-with-ro-crate/
翻译:越来越多的研究人员通过在其出版物中列入数据集、软件和方法的提示和说明来支持重新复制数据。然而,科学文章可能是模糊的、不完整的和难以由自动化系统处理的。在本文件中,我们采用开放的、社区驱动的和轻量级的RO-Crate方法,以机器可读的方式包装研究文物及其元数据。RO-Crate以JSON-LD的Schema.org说明为基础,目的是建立最佳做法,以方便和实用的方式正式描述元数据,供在各种情况中使用。RO-Crate是一个结构化的档案,记录有助于取得研究成果的所有项目,包括它们的识别资料、来源、关系和说明。作为数据及其元数据的通用包装方法,RO-Crate用于多个领域,包括生物学、数字人类学和监管科学。通过应用“适当”的链接数据标准,RO-Crate简化了将研究成果正式描述成FAIR的过程,同时加强研究的可改进性。该文章的RO-Creatread,可在 httpssstrasasmainal-wwwsmagistrat-wwwsmastrat-org上查阅。