2025-10-13: The RO-Crate website and specification superseded this website after 2020. These pages are no longer maintained.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.
April 2013. To promote the openness and establishment of Researhc Object community, Wf4Ever team members launched a W3C community group, titled Research Object for Scholarly Communication. Since its launch in April, more than 80 participants from a wide variety of background have joined the group.