rocrate: Create a new RO-Crate object

In rocrateR: Tools for Creating and Manipulating RO-Crates

Create a new RO-Crate object

Description

Create a new RO-Crate object. This object includes basic skeleton for the RO-Crate metadata descriptor (ro-crate-metadata.json) file, as described in the official documentation: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.2/ > Root Data Entity.

Usage

rocrate(
  ...,
  context = "https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.2/context",
  conformsTo = gsub("\\/context$", "\\1", context),
  datePublished = Sys.Date(),
  description = "",
  license = "http://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0",
  name = ""
)

Arguments

...	Optional entities to include in the RO-Crate (e.g., author).
context	String with URL to the version of the RO-Crate specification to use. The context brings the defined terms into the metadata document (default: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.2/context).
conformsTo	String with URL to the version of the RO-Crate specification which this object conforms to. Conformance declares which RO-Crate conventions of using those terms are being followed (default: URL formed by context/context)
datePublished	String (or Date object) with the date in which the RO-Crate was published (default: current date).
description	String with description for the root entity (default: empty string).
license	String with URL (permalinks are preferred, but not required) to license to be used for the overall RO-Crate. See the following resources for license choices: https://spdx.org/licenses and/or https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/tree/main/jsonld (default: CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International).
name	String with a name/title for the root entity (default: empty string).

Value

RO-Crate object, list with an additional class, rocrate.

Examples

rocrateR::rocrate()

rocrateR documentation built on April 9, 2026, 1:06 a.m.