DataPlant

DataPlant is implementing Annotated Research Context (ARC), an RO-Crate profile that combines the Investigation Study Assay model (ISA) and the Common Workflow Language (CWL) to capture a range from single experimental setups to complex experimental designs.

In ARC, files are managed in a git repository with a fixed structure following the ISA model, in addition to metadata in an Excel spreadsheet. The arcCommander tool can help with managing this structure, while the tool arc–to-roc can inspect the structure to generate an RO-Crate metadata file. The ARC specification allows augmentation by adding an explicit ro-crate-metadata.json to the ARC.

DataPlant has provided detailed guides to creating ARCs and introduce further tooling.

Publications

Sebastian Beier, Daniel Arend, Daniel Bauer, Marco Brandizi, Dominik Brilhaus, Eli Chadwick, Vera Clemens, Michael R. Crusoe, Manuel Feser, Jonas Grieb, Xiaoming Hu, Abigail Miller, Timo Mühlhaus, Stuart Owen, Maja Rey, Gabriel Schneider, Julian Schneider, Kevin Schneider, Heinrich Lukas Weil, Florian Wetzels (2025):
BioHackEU24 report: Creating user benefit from ARC-ISA RO-Crate machine-actionability & Increasing FAIRness of digital agrosystem resources by extending Bioschemas
BioHackrXiv
https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/x9d6b_v1