Tools

While we’re mostly focusing on the RO-Crate specification some tools already exist for working with RO-Crates:

Describo - interactive desktop application to create, update and export RO-Crates for different profiles. (~ RC)
Describo Online – Web-based application to create RO-Crates using cloud storage (~ alpha)
ro-crate-excel – Command-line tool to help create RO-Crates from spreadsheets (~ beta)
ro-crate-html – HTML rendering of RO-Crate (~ beta)
ro-crate-preview – GitHub Action for ro-crate-html, e.g. publishing crates on GitHub Pages (~ alpha)
ro-crate-js – JavaScript/NodeJS library for RO-Crate rendering as HTML. (~ beta)
ro-crate-ruby - Ruby library to consume/produce RO-Crates (~ beta)
ro-crate-py – Python library to consume/produce RO-Crates (~ beta)
CheckMyCrate – Validation according to Workflow RO-Crate profile (~ alpha)
galaxy2cwl – Wraps Galaxy workflow as Workflow RO-Crate (~ alpha)
ya2ro – Generate RO-Crate and HTML page from YAML template with look-up of DOI/ORCID/GitHub metadata (~ prototype)
arc-to-roc – Generate RO-Crate from an Annotated Research Context (ARC), see DataPlant
ROCrate_enrichment_service – API-based metadata enrichment service for RO-Crates (~ prototype)
rocrate-to-html – Github Action to publish rocrate objects as Github Pages (~ alpha) (see also new_rocrate_to_pages)
FAIR-Research-Object – evaluate FAIRness of Research Objects through an API (~ prototype)
repo2crate – Generate a Workflow Testing RO-Crate from a “best-practices” workflow repository
ro-crate-java – Java API for creating and modifying RO-Crate using builder pattern
ro-crate-benchmarks – Benchmarks for performance testing RO-Crate libraries
tonkaz – Tool to verify workflow reproducibility, compares RO-Crates of workflow execution results.
signposting – Python library & CLI tool for resolving PIDs as FAIR Signposting, e.g. DOIs from WorkflowHub to RO-Crate (~ beta)
RO-Crates-and-Excel – generate RO-Crate from Excel file, following the RO-Crates-and-Excel profile.
rocrate-lang-py – RO Crate Python library to help you load language data from ro-crates (~ prototype)
ROcrate-interface – Initial development in creating an interface between workflow languages and a LivePublication RO-crate specification (~ prototype)
aiida-rocrate – AiiDA plugin that allows exporting (parts) of the provenance graph as Research Object Crates. (~ planning)
RO-Crate-Registry – a Web-based registry of RO-Crates (assumes ZIP on http/https) (~ prototype)
ro-crate-validator-py – a modular RO-Crate validator (~ alpha)