SZTAKI DSD’s work with RO-Crate, RO-Crate profiles, metadata schemas, and FDO compliance has led to a new demonstrable result. At the full-day HUN-REN ARP 2025 conference, SZTAKI unveiled VibeARP, an experimental AI agent designed to make the metadata annotation of data packages faster and easier while maintaining high quality and completeness.

VibeARP enables both novice users and experienced data stewards to create and maintain metadata more efficiently, avoiding the often time-consuming information gathering processes currently involved. VibeARP is a chat-based application with specialized UI components that allows users to generate RO-Crate packages based on the questions and descriptions provided in the chat and even  upload them directly to Dataverse. The VibeARP agent supports web browsing, information extraction, file processing, and schema registry–based metadata assembly, while the embedded AROMA interface provides continuous visual feedback and allows manual editing when needed.

This experiment may ignite a process similar to the evolution of coding assistants: it could lead to the emergence of a data-steward assistant within ARP, reducing the mechanical workload for data stewards and researchers alike, and simplifying the onboarding process for users who do not wish to engage with the full functional complexity of ARP.

SZTAKI developers successfully presented VibeARP at the October RO-Crate meeting, and again at the November Dataverse Community Call.

Video: Balázs Pataki (SZTAKI DSD)