JSON-LD output

[NicolasCARPi]

Hello,

Did you consider using JSON-LD as output?

It seems currently the tool exports a very simple and straightforward JSON object, but I believe it would benefit from using JSON-LD and more specifically the RO-Crate specification. Which would also facilitate import into Dataverse, because Dataverse will be able to understand it and extract its information, among other piece of software in the research data management world.

JSON-LD/Ro-Crate is also the format of the .eln archive file format, produced by eLabFTW, the ELN software (see: https://github.com/TheELNConsortium/TheELNFileFormat).

In my eyes, it makes perfect sense to describe what you want to describe using an already established standard (as we really don't need yet another metadata format!).

What do you think?

Best,
~Nico

[djacob65]

Hello Nicolas,

Sorry for the delay in our response, but notifications were not enabled @*!! :-)
Maggot can also export metadata in JSON-LD format. See https://inrae.github.io/pgd-mmdt/definitions/json-ld/. It is true that this aspect is little developed in the online documentation but it remains to be done.
Furthermore, export in RO-Crate format is planned on our TODO list. We only needed a use case to do it. Here is one that is perfect, especially since one of us (François) is part of a working group on this same electronic notebook tool. We'll let you know as soon as it's done.

Thank you for your comments
Best,

Daniel

[NicolasCARPi]

Ok great! :)