Examples

Examples from the specification using ro-crate-java.

Examples

Adapting the specification examples

This section describes how to generate the official specifications examples. Each example first shows the ro-crate-metadata.json and, below that, the required Java code to generate it.

Minimal example

{ "@context": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1/context", 
  "@graph": [

 {
    "@type": "CreativeWork",
    "@id": "ro-crate-metadata.json",
    "conformsTo": {"@id": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1"},
    "about": {"@id": "./"}
 },  
 {
    "@id": "./",
    "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.4225/59/59672c09f4a4b",
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "datePublished": "2017",
    "name": "Data files associated with the manuscript:Effects of facilitated family case conferencing for ...",
    "description": "Palliative care planning for nursing home residents with advanced dementia ...",
    "license": {"@id": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/"}
 },
 {
  "@id": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/",
  "@type": "CreativeWork",
  "description": "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.",
  "identifier": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/",
  "name": "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AU)"
 }
 ]
}

Here, everything is created manually. For the following examples, more convenient creation methods are used.

  RoCrate crate = new RoCrate();

    ContextualEntity license = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .addType("CreativeWork")
        .setId("https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/")
        .addProperty("description", "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.")
        .addProperty("identifier", "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/")
        .addProperty("name", "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AU)")
        .build();

    crate.setRootDataEntity(new RootDataEntity.RootDataEntityBuilder()
        .addProperty("identifier", "https://doi.org/10.4225/59/59672c09f4a4b")
        .addProperty("datePublished", "2017")
        .addProperty("name", "Data files associated with the manuscript:Effects of facilitated family case conferencing for ...")
        .addProperty("description", "Palliative care planning for nursing home residents with advanced dementia ...")
        .setLicense(license)
        .build());

    crate.setJsonDescriptor(new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .setId("ro-crate-metadata.json")
        .addType("CreativeWork")
        .addIdProperty("about", "./")
        .addIdProperty("conformsTo", "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1")
        .build()
    );
    crate.addContextualEntity(license);

Example with files

{ "@context": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1/context",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "CreativeWork",
      "@id": "ro-crate-metadata.json",
      "conformsTo": {"@id": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1"},
      "about": {"@id": "./"}
    },  
    {
      "@id": "./",
      "@type": [
        "Dataset"
      ],
      "hasPart": [
        {
          "@id": "cp7glop.ai"
        },
        {
          "@id": "lots_of_little_files/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@id": "cp7glop.ai",
      "@type": "File",
      "name": "Diagram showing trend to increase",
      "contentSize": "383766",
      "description": "Illustrator file for Glop Pot",
      "encodingFormat": "application/pdf"
    },
    {
      "@id": "lots_of_little_files/",
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "name": "Too many files",
      "description": "This directory contains many small files, that we're not going to describe in detail."
    }
  ]
}

Here we use the inner builder classes for the construction of the crate. Doing so, the Metadata File Descriptor and the Root Data Entity entities are added automatically. setSource() is used to provide the actual location of these Data Entities (if they are not remote). The Data Entity file in the crate will have the name of the entity’s id.

  RoCrate crate = new RoCrate.RoCrateBuilder()
        .addDataEntity(
            new FileEntity.FileEntityBuilder()
                .setId("cp7glop.ai")
                .setSource(new File("path to file"))
                .addProperty("name", "Diagram showing trend to increase")
                .addProperty("contentSize", "383766")
                .addProperty("description", "Illustrator file for Glop Pot")
                .setEncodingFormat("application/pdf")
                .build()
        )
        .addDataEntity(
            new DataSetEntity.DataSetBuilder()
                .setId("lots_of_little_files/")
                .setSource(new File("path_to_files"))
                .addProperty("name", "Too many files")
                .addProperty("description", "This directory contains many small files, that we're not going to describe in detail.")
                .build()
        )
        .build();

Example with web resources

{ "@context": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1/context",
  "@graph": [
    {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "@id": "ro-crate-metadata.json",
        "conformsTo": {"@id": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1"},
        "about": {"@id": "./"}
  },  
  {
    "@id": "./",
    "@type": [
      "Dataset"
    ],
    "hasPart": [
      {
        "@id": "survey-responses-2019.csv"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://zenodo.org/record/3541888/files/ro-crate-1.0.0.pdf"
      },
      ]
  },
  {
    "@id": "survey-responses-2019.csv",
    "@type": "File",
    "name": "Survey responses",
    "contentSize": "26452",
    "encodingFormat": "text/csv"
  },
  {
    "@id": "https://zenodo.org/record/3541888/files/ro-crate-1.0.0.pdf",
    "@type": "File",
    "name": "RO-Crate specification",
    "contentSize": "310691",
    "description": "RO-Crate specification",
    "encodingFormat": "application/pdf"
  }
]
}

The web resource does not use .setSource(), but uses the ID to indicate the file’s location.

 RoCrate crate = new RoCrate.RoCrateBuilder()
        .addDataEntity(
            new FileEntity.FileEntityBuilder()
                .setId("survey-responses-2019.csv")
                .setSource(new File("README.md"))
                .addProperty("name", "Survey responses")
                .addProperty("contentSize", "26452")
                .setEncodingFormat("text/csv")
                .build()
        )
        .addDataEntity(
            new FileEntity.FileEntityBuilder()
                .setId("https://zenodo.org/record/3541888/files/ro-crate-1.0.0.pdf")
                .addProperty("name", "RO-Crate specification")
                .addProperty("contentSize", "310691")
                .addProperty("description", "RO-Crate specification")
                .setEncodingFormat("application/pdf")
                .build()
        )
        .build();

Example with file, author, location

{ "@context": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1/context",
  "@graph": [

    {
      "@type": "CreativeWork",
      "@id": "ro-crate-metadata.json",
      "conformsTo": {"@id": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1"},
      "about": {"@id": "./"},
      "description": "RO-Crate Metadata File Descriptor (this file)"
    },
    {
      "@id": "./",
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "name": "Example RO-Crate",
      "description": "The RO-Crate Root Data Entity",
      "hasPart": [
        {"@id": "data1.txt"},
        {"@id": "data2.txt"}
      ]
    },


    {
      "@id": "data1.txt",
      "@type": "File",
      "description": "One of hopefully many Data Entities",
      "author": {"@id": "#alice"},
      "contentLocation":  {"@id": "http://sws.geonames.org/8152662/"}
    },
    {
      "@id": "data2.txt",
      "@type": "File"
    },

    {
      "@id": "#alice",
      "@type": "Person",
      "name": "Alice",
      "description": "One of hopefully many Contextual Entities"
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://sws.geonames.org/8152662/",
      "@type": "Place",
      "name": "Catalina Park"
    }
 ]
}

If there is no special method for including relative entities (id properties) one can use .addIdProperty("key","value").

 PersonEntity alice = new PersonEntity.PersonEntityBuilder()
        .setId("#alice")
        .addProperty("name", "Alice")
        .addProperty("description", "One of hopefully many Contextual Entities")
        .build();
    PlaceEntity park = new PlaceEntity.PlaceEntityBuilder()
        .setId("http://sws.geonames.org/8152662/")
        .addProperty("name", "Catalina Park")
        .build();

    RoCrate crate = new RoCrate.RoCrateBuilder("Example RO-Crate", "The RO-Crate Root Data Entity")
        .addContextualEntity(park)
        .addContextualEntity(alice)
        .addDataEntity(
            new FileEntity.FileEntityBuilder()
                .setId("data2.txt")
                .setSource(new File(.......))
                .build()
        )
        .addDataEntity(
            new FileEntity.FileEntityBuilder()
                .setId("data1.txt")
                .setSource(new File(.......))
                .addProperty("description", "One of hopefully many Data Entities")
                .addAuthor(alice.getId())
                .addIdProperty("contentLocation", park)
                .build()
        )
        .build();

Example with computational workflow

{ "@context": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1/context", 
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "CreativeWork",
      "@id": "ro-crate-metadata.json",
      "conformsTo": {"@id": "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1"},
      "about": {"@id": "./"}
    },
    {
      "@id": "./",
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "hasPart": [
          { "@id": "workflow/alignment.knime" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@id": "workflow/alignment.knime",  
      "@type": ["File", "SoftwareSourceCode", "ComputationalWorkflow"],
      "conformsTo": 
        {"@id": "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/ComputationalWorkflow/0.5-DRAFT-2020_07_21/"},
      "name": "Sequence alignment workflow",
      "programmingLanguage": {"@id": "#knime"},
      "creator": {"@id": "#alice"},
      "dateCreated": "2020-05-23",
      "license": { "@id": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"},
      "input": [
        { "@id": "#36aadbd4-4a2d-4e33-83b4-0cbf6a6a8c5b"}
      ],
      "output": [
        { "@id": "#6c703fee-6af7-4fdb-a57d-9e8bc4486044"},
        { "@id": "#2f32b861-e43c-401f-8c42-04fd84273bdf"}
      ],
      "sdPublisher": {"@id": "#workflow-hub"},
      "url": "http://example.com/workflows/alignment",
      "version": "0.5.0"
    },
    {
      "@id": "#36aadbd4-4a2d-4e33-83b4-0cbf6a6a8c5b",
      "@type": "FormalParameter",
      "conformsTo": {"@id": "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/FormalParameter/0.1-DRAFT-2020_07_21/"},
      "name": "genome_sequence",
      "valueRequired": true,
      "additionalType": {"@id": "http://edamontology.org/data_2977"},
      "format": {"@id": "http://edamontology.org/format_1929"}
    },
    {
      "@id": "#6c703fee-6af7-4fdb-a57d-9e8bc4486044",
      "@type": "FormalParameter",
      "conformsTo": {"@id": "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/FormalParameter/0.1-DRAFT-2020_07_21/"},
      "name": "cleaned_sequence",
      "additionalType": {"@id": "http://edamontology.org/data_2977"},
      "encodingFormat": {"@id": "http://edamontology.org/format_2572"}
    },
    {
      "@id": "#2f32b861-e43c-401f-8c42-04fd84273bdf",
      "@type": "FormalParameter",
      "conformsTo": {"@id": "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/FormalParameter/0.1-DRAFT-2020_07_21/"},
      "name": "sequence_alignment",
      "additionalType": {"@id": "http://edamontology.org/data_1383"},
      "encodingFormat": {"@id": "http://edamontology.org/format_1982"}
    },
    {
      "@id": "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0",
      "@type": "CreativeWork",
      "name": "Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International",
      "alternateName": "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
    },
    {
      "@id": "#knime",
      "@type": "ProgrammingLanguage",
      "name": "KNIME Analytics Platform",
      "alternateName": "KNIME",
      "url": "https://www.knime.com/whats-new-in-knime-41",
      "version": "4.1.3"
    },
    {
      "@id": "#alice",
      "@type": "Person",
      "name": "Alice Brown"
    },
    {
      "@id": "#workflow-hub",
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Example Workflow Hub",
      "url":"http://example.com/workflows/"
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://edamontology.org/format_1929",
      "@type": "Thing",
      "name": "FASTA sequence format"
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://edamontology.org/format_1982",
      "@type": "Thing",
      "name": "ClustalW alignment format"
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://edamontology.org/format_2572",
      "@type": "Thing",
      "name": "BAM format"
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://edamontology.org/data_2977",
      "@type": "Thing",
      "name": "Nucleic acid sequence"
    },
    {
      "@id": "http://edamontology.org/data_1383",
      "@type": "Thing",
      "name": "Nucleic acid sequence alignment"
    }
  ]
}
   ContextualEntity license = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .addType("CreativeWork")
        .setId("https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0")
        .addProperty("name", "Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International")
        .addProperty("alternateName", "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0")
        .build();
    ContextualEntity knime = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .setId("#knime")
        .addType("ProgrammingLanguage")
        .addProperty("name", "KNIME Analytics Platform")
        .addProperty("alternateName", "KNIME")
        .addProperty("url", "https://www.knime.com/whats-new-in-knime-41")
        .addProperty("version", "4.1.3")
        .build();
    OrganizationEntity workflowHub = new OrganizationEntity.OrganizationEntityBuilder()
        .setId("#workflow-hub")
        .addProperty("name", "Example Workflow Hub")
        .addProperty("url", "http://example.com/workflows/")
        .build();
    ContextualEntity fasta = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .setId("http://edamontology.org/format_1929")
        .addType("Thing")
        .addProperty("name", "FASTA sequence format")
        .build();
    ContextualEntity clustalW = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .setId("http://edamontology.org/format_1982")
        .addType("Thing")
        .addProperty("name", "ClustalW alignment format")
        .build();
    ContextualEntity ban = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .setId("http://edamontology.org/format_2572")
        .addType("Thing")
        .addProperty("name", "BAM format")
        .build();
    ContextualEntity nucSec = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .setId("http://edamontology.org/data_2977")
        .addType("Thing")
        .addProperty("name", "Nucleic acid sequence")
        .build();
    ContextualEntity nucAlign = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .setId("http://edamontology.org/data_1383")
        .addType("Thing")
        .addProperty("name", "Nucleic acid sequence alignment")
        .build();
    PersonEntity alice = new PersonEntity.PersonEntityBuilder()
        .setId("#alice")
        .addProperty("name", "Alice Brown")
        .build();
    ContextualEntity requiredParam = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .addType("FormalParameter")
        .setId("#36aadbd4-4a2d-4e33-83b4-0cbf6a6a8c5b")
        .addProperty("name", "genome_sequence")
        .addProperty("valueRequired", true)
        .addIdProperty("conformsTo", "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/FormalParameter/0.1-DRAFT-2020_07_21/")
        .addIdProperty("additionalType", nucSec)
        .addIdProperty("encodingFormat", fasta)
        .build();

    ContextualEntity clnParam = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .addType("FormalParameter")
        .setId("#6c703fee-6af7-4fdb-a57d-9e8bc4486044")
        .addProperty("name", "cleaned_sequence")
        .addIdProperty("conformsTo", "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/FormalParameter/0.1-DRAFT-2020_07_21/")
        .addIdProperty("additionalType", nucSec)
        .addIdProperty("encodingFormat", ban)
        .build();

    ContextualEntity alignParam = new ContextualEntity.ContextualEntityBuilder()
        .addType("FormalParameter")
        .setId("#2f32b861-e43c-401f-8c42-04fd84273bdf")
        .addProperty("name", "sequence_alignment")
        .addIdProperty("conformsTo", "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/FormalParameter/0.1-DRAFT-2020_07_21/")
        .addIdProperty("additionalType", nucAlign)
        .addIdProperty("encodingFormat", clustalW)
        .build();

    RoCrate crate = new RoCrate.RoCrateBuilder("Example RO-Crate", "The RO-Crate Root Data Entity")
        .addContextualEntity(license)
        .addContextualEntity(knime)
        .addContextualEntity(workflowHub)
        .addContextualEntity(fasta)
        .addContextualEntity(clustalW)
        .addContextualEntity(ban)
        .addContextualEntity(nucSec)
        .addContextualEntity(nucAlign)
        .addContextualEntity(alice)
        .addContextualEntity(requiredParam)
        .addContextualEntity(clnParam)
        .addContextualEntity(alignParam)
        .addDataEntity(
            new WorkflowEntity.WorkflowEntityBuilder()
                .setId("workflow/alignment.knime")
                .setSource(new File("src"))
                .addIdProperty("conformsTo", "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/ComputationalWorkflow/0.5-DRAFT-2020_07_21/")
                .addProperty("name", "Sequence alignment workflow")
                .addIdProperty("programmingLanguage", "#knime")
                .addAuthor("#alice")
                .addProperty("dateCreated", "2020-05-23")
                .setLicense("https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0")
                .addInput("#36aadbd4-4a2d-4e33-83b4-0cbf6a6a8c5b")
                .addOutput("#6c703fee-6af7-4fdb-a57d-9e8bc4486044")
                .addOutput("#2f32b861-e43c-401f-8c42-04fd84273bdf")
                .addProperty("url", "http://example.com/workflows/alignment")
                .addProperty("version", "0.5.0")
                .addIdProperty("sdPublisher", "#workflow-hub")
                .build()

        )
        .build();