Next steps

Last updated on 2025-07-25 | Edit this page

Overview

Questions

  • What else can I do with RO-Crate?

Objectives

  • Find additional sections in RO-Crate specification

Next steps

You have completed making a basic RO-Crate. You may try any of the following:

  • Add Additional Properties: Explore the RO-Crate specification for a wide range of properties to describe data entities more comprehensively.

  • More Contextual Entities: Discover additional contextual entities you can add to your crate, such as projects, grants, or related publications, to enrich the crate’s context.

  • Provenance and Software: Learn how to describe the provenance (origin and history) of your data and include information about the software and workflows used in your research.

  • RO-Crate Profiles: Delve into RO-Crate Profiles, which are community-defined content checklists that extend the base specification to meet the specific needs of a domain or data type. Profiles impose conventions and may add domain specific terms/vocabularies, effectively making RO-Crates typed and machine-actionable for specific use cases. Examples include the Workflow RO-Crate profile used by WorkflowHub and the Five Safes RO-Crate profile for trusted workflow execution in Trusted Research Environments (TREs).

  • FAIR Signposting: Understand how FAIR Signposting can be used in combination with RO-Crate to guide machine agents through metadata space.

  • Bioschemas: Explore Bioschemas, a life sciences community initiative built on schema.org that defines domain-specific profiles (e.g., Dataset, ComputationalWorkflow, ChemicalSubstance).

  • Community and Tools: Join the open RO-Crate community on GitHub, participate in drop-in sessions, and explore the tools and libraries for various programming languages.

  • Real-world Use Cases: Explore how RO-Crates are being used in practice across various domains.