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RO-Crate Community

Table of contents

  1. RO-Crate Community
    1. Team
    2. Steering Committee
    3. Meetings
    4. Mailing list
    5. Slack Chat
    6. Contact us
    7. Code of Conduct
    8. Contributing
    9. Open Source

Team

The RO-Crate team is:

The RO-Crate Community is open for anyone to join us!

Steering Committee

The RO-Crate Steering Committee follow the Minimal Viable Governance model, supporting the community’s mission to write, maintain and release versions of the RO-Crate specification and associated website, as well as advocating RO-Crate use.

  • Abigail Miller, The Jackson Laboratory (chair)
  • Eli Chadwick, The University of Manchester (co-chair)
  • Peter Sefton, University of Queensland
  • Stian Soiland-Reyes, The University of Manchester
  • Carole Goble, The University of Manchester
  • Rudolf Wittner, BBMRI-ERIC and Masaryk University
  • Mike Lynch, The University of Sydney
  • Raul Palma, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
  • Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Marc Portier, the Flanders Marine Institute
  • Josh Moore, OME and German BioImaging e.V.

You may contact the steering committe at contact()researchobject.org for any confidential matter.

Meetings

The RO-Crate team meet twice monthly in a telcon, see the rolling agenda for schedule, call-in details and minutes.

There are also regular regional drop-in calls aimed at those newer to the RO-Crate community. These sessions are suitable for beginner questions, as well as discussing detailed ideas such as new tools/integrations.

Members of the RO-Crate team can often be found presenting at open science conferences and events: see the list of recent and upcoming events for details.

See the RO-Crate Community Calendar embedded below (in timezone UTC) to import events to your own calendar (or download the whole calendar as .ics).

Mailing list

The RO-Crate Community has a low-traffic public RO-Crate mailing list, used for announcements and general enquiries.

Note: Do not attempt to sign up to the mailing list, as we get about 1000 spammer subscriptions a day. Sign up in GitHub issue #1 and we will add you manually.

Note that most discussion about the RO-Crate specifications typically happen in GitHub issues and community meetings.

Slack Chat

We have an informal Slack chat channel #ro-crate on seek4science.slack.com (join).

Contact us

For general technical questions, please feel free to use the Slack chat or contribute a GitHub discussion. The members of the RO-Crate community will collaboratively try to assist.

If you have a technical request that you are not comfortable posting in a public forum like Slack or GitHub (e.g. use in commercial software), you may email ro-crate()researchobject.org – note that this list goes to a couple of volunteers and we cannot provide any support guarantees.

For organisational or confidential requests, e.g. letter of support for a funding proposal, email contact()researchobject.org which goes to the Steering Committee.

Remember to replace () with @ in the above email addresses

Code of Conduct

Contributors to the RO-Crate community are expected to comply with our Code of Conduct to ensure an open and inclusive environment. You may email conduct()researchobject.org to report any Code of Conduct concerns.

Contributing

To suggest changes, improvements or issues, use the GitHub repository https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate - if you are new to GitHub or Open Source you may appreciate the GitHub guides like Hello World, MarkDown and How to contribute to open source

You are welcome to join us!

Open Source

This specification and documentation is Open Source and licensed as Apache License, version 2.0, see https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 for details.