Download Externally Defined Data

[ThomasThelen]

Hey I have a small (but maybe annoying to implement) request. Let me know what you think. When I think of Research Objects, I think big bulky static objects however, they can be incredibly portable because users can define external data. This means that RO-Crates are incredibly portable! It would be awesome to be able to turn these lightweight crates into their big bulky archive-ready formats with the stoke of a key.

Use Case: A researcher downloads an RO from a repository and wants to resolve all of the externally defined data in ro-crate-metadata.jsonld.

I don't think that this is a particularly common use case however, it's one of the primary reasons people use other formats such as BD-Bag (gives them a fetch.txt and their software can resolve entries). RO-Crate stores equivalent information and with a little parsing, should be able to be feature parity. I find that to be a really neat feature that's definitely worth advertising.

[ieguinoa]

Hi,

Thanks for the input. I just added a template to work on this method soon. It would be included in the library for ro-crate specification 1.1, which defined the basis to define remote datasets.

cheers, Ignacio