Eoghan Ó Carragáin

The DPC are trying to crowdsource "the DPC’s ‘Bit List’ of Digitally Endangered Species will highlight the need for action to preserve high-value digital content that is critically endangered". http://www.dpconline.org/our-work/digitally-endangered-species...

Use Case: Describe a tabular data file directly in RO-Crate metadata

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As a researcher working with tabular data, I want to be able to define the columns (description, data-type, valid values/ranges, etc.), so that I can provide a structured data dictionary....

Use Case: Given a DOI, directly download & verify an RO-Crate

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As a researcher (or aggregation service), when given a DataCite DOI, I'd like to be able to directly download & verify (e.g. by comparing checksums) an RO-Crate so that I...

Issue: revisiting self-containment of data entities

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Following discussions at Open Repositories, the current spec reads (with added emphasis): > At the basic level, an RO-Crate is a collection of files represented as a Schema.org Dataset, that...

Use Case: In-situ/on-the-fly manifests alongside 'payload' data

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As a developer/researcher/data-steward, I want to be able to capture the manifest in the root of my git-repo/data-folder as I work on my code/data, so that my existing processes &...

Use Case: Link to and re-use existing metadata (sidecar) files

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As a researcher who already uses a defined metadata standard/serialisation, I want to be able to reuse this metadata and have RO-Crate express its relationship to the dataset as a...

Use Case: Post to & fully populate a repository record

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As a data creator, I want to be able to post/upload an RO-Crate to a repository and have it populate the repository metadata, so that I can automate my processes...

Use Case: Export as RO-Crate

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As a repository manager/user, I want to be able to losslessly export a given object in RO-Crate format so that I can work with it in a different environment (local...

We should identify related projects in this area (other than DataCrate). This will help: - inform and validate ROLite spec against real examples in the wild; - provide examples of...