2025-10-13: The RO-Crate website and specification superseded this website after 2020. These pages are no longer maintained.
We strongly recommend that new Research Object users adopt the RO-Crate specification.
Code as a Research Object is a joint initiative between the Mozilla Science Lab, figshare and GitHub. figshare and GitHub two leading repositories for data and code. The project has built a bridge to allow users to push code from their GitHub repository to figshare, providing a Digital Object Identifier for the code.