BioDT RO-Crate Metadata Profiles Documentation

RO-Crate profiles for linking the different types of digital objects that compose a digital twin, such as datasets, models and workflows

The kernel attributes are common to all BioDT FAIR digital objects (FDOs) regardless of their type, and contain fundamental information such as their licence, author or the date of publication. If some metadata attribute is of high importance but does not apply to all FDOs, it is reserved for the type-specific metadata profiles. The kernel attributes have been kept to a minimum for the sake of implementation within the pDTs and the rest of the technical architecture of the project, but more attributes can be incorporated as they are needed (i.e., the list is not exclusive).

Kernel Attributes

Format: the name of each metadata attribute includes a link to Schema.org (or another vocabulary to which the property belongs), and is followed by a definition in the “Description” line. “Type” indicates the expected values for each property, while “Cardinality” specifies the amount and whether they are optional or mandatory. Lastly, additional remarks might be added as “Comments”, and an example is given in the final line.

conformsTo

license

@id / identifier

@type / additionalType

name

description

dateCreated

creator

keywords

Example Metadata File (ro-crate-metadata.json)

Note: simplified from the Dataset example by excluding dataset-specific attributes.

{
    "@context": ["https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1/context"],
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@id": "ro-crate-metadata.json",
            "@type": "CreativeWork",
            "conformsTo": {
                "@id": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1"
            },
            "about": {
                "@id": "./"
            }
        },
        {
            "@id": "./",
            "@type": "Dataset",
            "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.57315b8581cf45f6a5686b8ec1e0a788",
            "name": "Grassland Dynamics - Schrankogel (Austria) - 1994, 2004, 2014",
            "description": "Species cover according to the GLORIA Field Manual: https://gloria.ac.at/downloads/Manual_5thEd_ENG.pdf (p 38);%;1x1m plots arranged in transects at southern slopes of Mt. Schrankogel: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.15290;visual estimate\n\nused for the Horizon Europe project \"Biodiversity Digital Twin for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities\" (https://biodt.eu/).",
            "conformsTo": "https://biodt.github.io/biodt-fair/metadata_profiles/kernel",
            "license": {
                "@id": "http://hdl.handle.net/11304/8f7cb540-9eed-4298-b227-f3317a8a6e16"
            },
            "dateCreated": "2024-02-20",
            "creator": {
                "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0655-3699"
            },
            "keywords": ["BioDT", "Grassland pDT"],
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://ror.org/039kwqk96"
            }
        },
        {
            "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0655-3699",
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "Christoph Wohner",
            "affiliation": [
                {
                    "@id": "https://ror.org/039kwqk96"
                },
                {
                    "@id": "https://ror.org/013vyke20"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@id": "https://ror.org/039kwqk96",
            "@type": "Organisation",
            "name": "Long Term Ecological Research Network",
            "url": "https://lternet.edu/"
        },
        {
            "@id": "https://ror.org/013vyke20",
            "@type": "Organisation",
            "name": "Environment Agency Austria",
            "url": "http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/en/"
        },
        {
            "@id": "http://hdl.handle.net/11304/8f7cb540-9eed-4298-b227-f3317a8a6e16",
            "@type": ["File", "CreativeWork"],
            "name": "AT_Schrankogel_license.csv",
            "contentSize": "131 B",
            "encodingFormat": "text/csv"
        }
    ]
}