QFlowCrate
Plugin ID: 5057
A QGIS plugin that retrieves the steps of a spatial analysis workflow and bundles everything into a RO‑Crate – a self‑describing, machine‑readable package that contains data, metadata, and provenance information. It helps with making QGIS projects reproducible, shareable, and ready for FAIR publishing.
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What is QFlowCrate?
Geospatial analyses in QGIS involve many steps:
- Loading data layers from several different sources.
- Applying geoprocessing operations (vector analysis, raster algebra, interpolation, etc.).
- Styling layers, creating legends, and designing print layouts.
These actions are rarely documented in a structured, reusable way, which hampers reproducibility, transparency, and long-term preservation of research results.
QFlowCrate solves this problem by assisting the user to capture the provenance of the executed workflows in a QGIS project and exporting it as a RO-Crate – a community-adopted standard for packaging research data and metadata. The resulting crate can be deposited in data repositories, shared with collaborators, or used as supplementary material for publications, thereby aligning geospatial workflows with FAIR principles.
More specifically, QFlowCrate will track down the file paths, URLs, coordinate reference systems, and symbology of data layers in the project. Additionally, it will track the processing steps that were applied to the data layer, including the name of the process, units of measurement and other parameters. Moreover, QFlowCrate will help you document the metadata of your project, prompting to fill in the project title, description, and author details.
