Dataverse repository

Harvard Dataverse is an open source repository for research data, with over 121 installations across research institutions. It has optional support for RO-Crate export, preview and metadata editing.

Export of RO-Crate

Dataverse has optional support for export as RO-Crate, this must currently be enabled as an external exporter.

There are two export methods developed, both return a detached RO-Crate as JSON-LD output:

KU Leuven developed exporter-ro-crate, with support from EOSC FAIR-IMPACT. This is a customizable exporter that can be adjusted based on Dataverse’s configurable metadata blocks.
The Transformer exporter supports RO-Crate Metadata JSON export as arp-ro-crate, which adds @context mapping of typical dataverse metadata fields, e.g. geographicBoundingBox or grantNumberAgency. A more basic form basic-ro-crate mainly describes the dataset.

Contact the operator of your Dataverse installation to enable RO-Crate export.

RO-Crate previewer

To render Dataverse deposits containing a RO-Crate Metadata document (ro-crate-metadata.json), a RO-Crate previewer can be enabled by the operator of the Dataverse instance.

RO-Crate manager

The AROMA ARP RO-Crate Manager customises Dataverse to allow detailed RO-Crate metadata editing and dynamic schema creation as an alternative to the more tabular metadata blocks.

ELN format

Dataverse renders ELN Electronic Lab Notebooks, a file format based on RO-Crate, however currently only a ZIP file listing is provided. This can in theory be combined with the RO-Crate previewer.

Resources

Dieuwertje Bloemen, Özgür Karadeniz (2024):
Creating a Dataverse RO-Crate exporter with FAIR-IMPACT support.
Open Repositories Conference (OR 2024), Göteborg, Sweden, 2024-06-03/–06
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12548334