Introduction

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An overview of the RO-Crate concept and its implementations

Turning a folder into an RO-Crate

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Any folder can be made into an RO-Crate by adding `ro-crate-metadata.json`
Folder listing of crate1, including data.csv and ro-crate-metadata.json

Making a metadata descriptor

Declaring the root folder

Describing the root entity

Adding cross-references

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showing RO-Crate Metadata descriptor's `about` property pointing at the RO-Crate Root entity with matching `@id`
JSON block with id ro-crate-metadata.json has some attributes, conformsTo RO-Crate 1.2, and about referencing id ./. In second JSON block with id ./ we see additional attributes such as its name and description.

Data entities

Contextual entities

Authorship in crates

Validating JSON-LD

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Visualized in the JSON-LD Playground
Visualized in the JSON-LD Playground

Converting JSON-LD to triples

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Triples table in the JSON-LD Playground

Visualizing a crate as HTML preview

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Example dataset for RO-Crate specification

Completed RO-Crate

Next steps