non Data entity data sets

[l1ll1]

Hi!
I'm not sure if I'm coming at this problem in the right way but I'll try to give enough background

My researchers have directories full of files. I'd like to encourage them to attach some descriptions (i.e. lets turn it into an rocrate)
I feel like the description should have at least name, description and keywords fields

I feel like using rocrate init and then adding the other fields if the right move

Except of course that the Root entity can't have keywords ... it seems like the intention is to create a Dataset bellow the root entity and attach the description name and keywords here?

Except my researchers are going to get upset if I start making extra sub directories for them, so it seems like I should create a "Conceptual" dataset where the id begins with #

So according to https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/specification/1.2/data-entities.html a dataset begining with # would not be a data entity, and therefore doesn't need to end in / and probably shouldn't attempt write because its not a data entity.

ro-crate-py/rocrate/model/dataset.py

Line 46 in 94cf716

def format_id(self, identifier):

has other ideas ....

Whats my best way forward? How should I allow a user to enter keyword data describing their files? If a conceptual dataset is the right way to do it, how can I help alter the code to support conceptual/non-data-entity datasets?

[simleo]

I'm not sure I fully understand your use case, but it looks like you need to simply describe files and directories, which is what RO-Crate does naturally using File and Dataset entities. The Root Data Entity is a Dataset, so you can use keywords on it (Dataset is a subclass of CreativeWork).

[elichad]

@simleo what's the best way to add extra metadata (such as keywords) to the root data entity using ro-crate-py? I think that will help @l1ll1 but I'm asking for myself as well (I've done it before but don't know if I've done it "right")

[simleo]

from rocrate.rocrate import ROCrate

crate = ROCrate()
crate.root_dataset["name"] = "crate name"
crate.root_dataset["description"] = "crate description"
crate.root_dataset["keywords"] = ["kw1", "kw2"]

[l1ll1]

Thanks @simleo My mistake entirely, for some reason I became convinced that keywords were not allowed on the root data entity (even though I knew they were allowed on Datasets) I have no idea how I got myself into such a mess. Applying keywords to the root data entity is definitely the easiest solution.

[elichad]

@l1ll1 it sounds as though your problem has been addressed, is it ok if we close this issue?