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RO-Crate Analysis and Visualisation Tools

ARDC Community Data Lab Phase 2: Work Package 2

Tools for analysing and visualising research data collections stored in RO-Crates.

About

RO-Crates offer a powerful format for preserving HASS and GLAM collections with curated metadata and linkage information. While existing tools focus on creating RO-Crates as archival objects, this project unlocks them for active research use.

This project develops accessible tools for researchers to:

  • Analyse network relationships and metadata within and across RO-Crates
  • Visualise collections interactively, both online and offline
  • Understand and work with RO-Crate workflows through documentation and training

Background

This work builds on existing University of Melbourne projects and external collaborations that have developed specialised RO-Crate tools and workflows, including work derived from former Online Heritage Resource Manager projects.

Development

This project uses uv for dependency management.

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run tests
uv run pytest

# Run linting
uv run ruff check

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.