Workshop on FAIRification and data packaging using RO-Crate took place on 5 December 2025!

Today, the Climate-Adapt4EOSC consortium held its second workshop in the FAIRification Tools and Practices series, dedicated to FAIRification and data packaging using RO-Crate, presented by Stian Soiland-Reyes, Senior Lecturer in FAIR, Open and Reproducible Digital Research. The session brought together project partners and technical experts to deepen the collective understanding of how RO-Crate can support structured, interoperable and reusable research data across climate-related domains. 

The workshop began with an in-depth introduction to RO-Crate, a community-driven approach for packaging data and metadata in line with FAIR principles. Participants explored how RO-Crate builds on established Web standards such as JSON-LD and schema.org, to provide an extensible metadata framework that supports documentation of datasets, files, provenance information and attribution. 

The session also highlighted how RO-Crate is already used across multiple research fields, including life sciences, biodiversity, earth sciences, chemistry, health data and the humanities. In the context of Climate-Adapt4EOSC, the discussion focused on how a tailored family of RO-Crate profiles will be developed to describe climate-relevant variables and connect to the project’s common metadata model (CDIF). 

The workshop concluded with a technical discussion on the approaches needed to capture FAIRified data from project use cases. These exchanges will directly inform the development of climate-specific RO-Crate profiles and associated tooling within Climate-Adapt4EOSC. 

Thank you to all participants for joining the session and contributing to the ongoing development of FAIR data practices within the project. 

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