Fairscape RO-Crate Profile

The Fairscape RO-Crate Profile defines what it means for an RO-Crate to be a Fairscape release: the entity types, required properties, supporting files, and base specifications a conforming crate references.

Published versions

Version	Profile URI	Specification	Status
0.1	https://w3id.org/fairscape/profile/0.1	v0.1 spec	Current

Profile URIs are immutable. Future revisions will be published under a new URI; a crate’s dct:conformsTo value pins the exact revision it was authored against.

How conformance is signaled

A Fairscape release crate declares conformance by setting dct:conformsTo on its Root Data Entity:

{
  "@id": "ark:99999/my-release",
  "@type": ["Dataset", "https://w3id.org/EVI#ROCrate"],
  "conformsTo": { "@id": "https://w3id.org/fairscape/profile/0.1" }
}

The @type of a release crate is always ["Dataset", "https://w3id.org/EVI#ROCrate"].

Background

The profile is built on top of RO-Crate 1.2 using the W3C Profiles Vocabulary (PROF). Each version is published as a Profile Crate (RO-Crate with Root typed ["Dataset","Profile"]) bundling its specification, vocabulary, JSON Schemas, Croissant mapping, example crate, and validator pointer under standard PROF roles.