Changelog

0.6 (2026-09-04)

• Updated all three profiles and their examples to align with RO-Crate 1.3 and Workflow RO-Crate 1.1.

• The IRI mappings for ComputationalWorkflow, FormalParameter, input, and output were updated in the RO-Crate 1.3 JSON-LD context. This means that from this version onward, Workflow Run Crate and Provenance Run Crate are not backward compatible with RO-Crate 1.1/Workflow RO-Crate 1.0. The changes are shown in the table below:

  Term	RO-Crate 1.3 context (latest)	RO-Crate 1.2 context	RO-Crate 1.1 context
  ComputationalWorkflow	https://bioschemas.org/terms/ComputationalWorkflow	https://bioschemas.org/ComputationalWorkflow	https://bioschemas.org/ComputationalWorkflow
  FormalParameter	https://bioschemas.org/terms/FormalParameter	https://bioschemas.org/FormalParameter	https://bioschemas.org/FormalParameter
  input	https://bioschemas.org/terms/input	https://bioschemas.org/properties/input	https://bioschemas.org/ComputationalWorkflow#input
  output	https://bioschemas.org/terms/output	https://bioschemas.org/properties/output	https://bioschemas.org/ComputationalWorkflow#output

  Note that ComputationalWorkflow and FormalParameter did not have IRI changes between 1.1 and 1.2, whereas input and output had IRI changes between all three versions.

• Implementers should further note: while RO-Crate 1.2 was never formally supported by the Process Run Crate, Workflow Run Crate, or Provenance Run Crate profiles, there may nonetheless be crates which declare conformance to both RO-Crate 1.2 and one or more of these profiles, and therefore use the RO-Crate 1.2 context mappings.

Compatibility table

RO-Crate version	Workflow RO-Crate version	Compatible Workflow Run RO-Crate version(s)
1.1	1.0	0.1 - 0.5
1.2	None	None
1.3	1.1	0.6
later minor versions	1.1, unless context changes are made that affect terms used in the profile	0.6, unless context changes are made that affect terms used in the profiles