As a followup to the discussions on Element with @pdurbin and @poikilotherm I would like to start a discussion here on the possible support of RO-Crate (https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/) in Dataverse.

I found these slides https://zenodo.org/record/4973678 and recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJq-mzT9v8o&t=1731s of the Dataverse Community Meeting from 2021 where Stian Soiland-Reyes discusses possibilities of RO-Crate export/import in Dataverse.

I was wondering if there is any followup to this presentation and whether there are official or community plans to support RO-Crate?

Let me give you a little bit of background how we imagine using a RO-Crate enabled Dataverse.

We are working on a new system built around Dataverse, where we would like to support RO-Crate as a dataset input format besides the usual DV way of uploading and metadata annotating of datasets.

Ideally our system would allow uploading and ingesting RO-Crate packages (eg. as .zip or BagIt) in Dataverse. For creating RO-Crates we plan to provide a RO-Crate Editor[1] but the RO-Crates can be assembled by users using any tool they see fit. The RO-Crates to be ingestible by Dataverse must be accompanied with metadata using schemas, which are understandable by Dataverse, therefore both the RO-Crate Editor and Dataverse must use the same schemas. As of now Dataverse provides out of the box 15 such schemas as "metadata blocks", so these schemas should be available to the RO-Crate Editor as well. In our system we would like to have an external system called "Schema registry" for storing these schemas and we imagine that these schemas would then be uploaded to and configured in both Dataverse and the RO-Crate Editor so that they are compatible when working with the metadata in the RO-Crates.

As we are building our system based on RO-Crate, we would be happy to work on or help in RO-Crate integration in Dataverse, but it would be good to know if there's something already implemented in this regard or if this idea is supported by IQSS or the DV community at all. Also pinging @qqmyers as suggested on Element to be interested in RO-Crate support as well.

[1] For the RO-Crate editor we are now investigating https://github.com/Arkisto-Platform/describo-online