Research Objects (ROs) provide a structured way to aggregate and interlink diverse research outputs—such as datasets, workflows, software, and semantic artefacts—together with their metadata and relationships.
By explicitly capturing context, provenance, and dependencies, ROs support reproducibility and reuse. Community standards such as RO-Crate demonstrate how ROs can be implemented as FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs), enabling improved sharing and machine actionability across research infrastructures.
This project onboards ROHub and FAIROs as federated services within the EOSC Federation, via the EOSC PL Node operated by the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland. ROHub is a comprehensive RO-Crate management platform supporting the full lifecycle of scientific investigations, including the creation, storage, publishing, and preservation of FDOs.
Integrated into ROHub, FAIROs provides automated FAIRness assessment of ROs by aggregating established evaluation tools for datasets, ontologies, software, and RO metadata.
Through this onboarding, the EOSC Federation gains the capability to create RO-Crate–compliant FDOs and to validate their FAIRness, while benefiting from advanced services such as automated semantic enrichment, recommendation, and analytics. The relevance and generality of the services is demonstrated through two complementary use cases from ongoing EU-funded projects, showcasing applicability across different scientific domains.
Partners:
- UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid),
- Lifewatch (e-Science European infrastructure for biodiversity & ecosystem research).
Funding: Project EOSC Gravity – Open call
