RO-Crate
- Stage boundary
- No direct role is recorded for Plan, Acquire, Harmonize.
- Known limitation
- Core conformance is deliberately lightweight; interoperability depends on shared profiles and validation beyond the base crate.
Decision support
Compare standards by the job they do
Place up to three profiles side by side. Focus on architectural role, evidence, and the first limitation to test—not on finding a single all-purpose standard.
Working set
Choose profiles
1 of 3 selected
RO-CrateData model / schema
Decision lens
Compare roles before you compare maturity.
The useful question is not “Which standard wins?” It is “Which job must this part of the architecture perform, and what remains uncovered?”
- Start with the job
Decide whether you need guidance, a domain payload, exchange, semantics, governance, or a reusable release.
- Map lifecycle reach
Use the matrix to see where each profile has a direct role. A filled cell is coverage, not a quality score.
- Test the boundary
Read what each option leaves unresolved before judging maturity, confidence, or implementation fit.
Three-part assessment
See the reach, the gaps, and the evidence.
Read left to right. Lifecycle reach comes first; maturity remains an editorial roll-up, not certification.
01 · Lifecycle reach
Where each profile contributes directly
Coverage shows a recorded role at that readiness stage. It does not imply end-to-end implementation.
| Profile | Plan | Acquire | Harmonize | Exchange | Learn + reuse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO-CrateData model / schema | RO-Crate has no direct role recorded in Plan. | RO-Crate has no direct role recorded in Acquire. | RO-Crate has no direct role recorded in Harmonize. | RO-Crate has a direct role in Exchange. | RO-Crate has a direct role in Learn + reuse. |
Direct role recordedNo direct role recorded
02 · Boundaries
What each option does not cover
These are design boundaries, not faults. Use them to identify the companion layers your architecture still needs.
03 · Detailed assessment
Check the fit and evidence behind the map
Use the source, status, and limitation together. A higher maturity label does not erase a scope mismatch.
| Assessment | RO-CrateRO-Crate |
|---|---|
| Purpose & coverage | A JSON-LD metadata document that aggregates data, code, workflows, people, instruments, and contextual entities into a research object. Best fitPortable dataset packages, workflow exchange, preservation, publication, and handoff between repositories and compute environments. |
| Readiness stages | ExchangeLearn + reuse |
| AI-ready contribution | Bundles the context an agent needs to inspect and reuse a dataset or workflow, but does not standardize table-level ML semantics. |
| First limitation to test | Core conformance is deliberately lightweight; interoperability depends on shared profiles and validation beyond the base crate. |
| Evidence | E1 + E3 Medium confidence Formal statusCommunity Recommendation 1.3 ReviewSource-checked · watch |
| Maturity | Scaling Recent Community Recommendation; adoption evidence is still scaling |
| Sources & links | RO-Crate 1.3 specification (opens in a new tab)Read full profile |