Preserving Reproducibility: Provenance and Executable Containers in DataONE Data Packages

Abstract

Many data packaging standards are available to researchers and data repository operators and the choice to use an existing standard or create a new one is challenging. We introduce the DataONE Data Package standard which is based on the existing OAI-ORE Resource Map standard. We describe the functionality Data Package provides, implementation considerations, compare it to existing standards, and discuss future extensions to the standard including the ability to describe execution environments via WholeTale "Tales"" and alternate serialization formats.