ro-crate-java

A Java library to create and modify RO-Crates. The aim of this implementation is to not require too deep knowledge of the specification, and avoiding crates which do not fully comply to the specification, at the same time.

Use it in your application

• Instructions for your build manager (e.g., Gradle, Maven, etc.)
• Quick-Start
• JavaDoc Documentation
• Related Publications

Build the library / documentation

• Building (with tests): ./gradlew clean build
• Building (without tests): ./gradlew clean build -x test
• Building with release profile: ./gradlew -Dprofile=release clean build
• Doing a release: ./gradlew -Dprofile=release clean build release
  • Will prompt you about version number to use and next version number
  • Will make a git tag which can later be used in a GitHub release
    • A GitHub release will trigger the CI for publication. See also .github/workflows/publishRelease.yml.
• Build documentation: ./gradlew javadoc

On Windows, replace ./gradlew with gradlew.bat.

RO-Crate Specification Compatibility

• ✅ Version 1.1 (Extracted examples as well-described unit tests/guide)
• 🛠️ Version 1.2-DRAFT
  • ✅ Reading and writing crates with additional profiles or specifications (examples for reading, examples for writing)
  • ✅ Adding profiles or other specifications to a crate (examples)

Quick-start

ro-crate-java makes use of the builder pattern to guide the user to create a valid RO-Crate, similar to:

RoCrate myFirstCrate = STARTER_CRATE
    .addDataEntity(
        new FileEntity.FileEntityBuilder()
            .setId("path/within/crate/survey-responses-2019.csv")
            .setLocation(Paths.get("path/to/current/location/experiment.csv"))
            .addProperty("name", "Survey responses")
            .addProperty("contentSize", "26452")
            .addProperty("encodingFormat", "text/csv")
            .build()
    )
    .addDataEntity(/*...*/)
    .addContextualEntity(/*...*/)
    .build();

A built or imported crate can of course also be modified afterwards. Take a look at our further documentation:

• There is a well-documented example-driven guide in LearnByExampleTest.java to help you get started.
• You may also be interested in the examples we extracted from the specification in version 1.1, which are available in ExamplesOfSpecificationV1p1Test.java.
• There is a module with all well-described guiding tests available.
• The JavaDoc Documentation is also available online.