How to update published RO-Crates when a contributor changes their name?

[elichad]

User story: As a researcher who has changed my name, I want all appearances of my previous name in RO-Crates to be updated to my new name, so that my publications (and references to them) are properly attributed to me in the way I prefer.

There is an ongoing push for publishers to implement name change policies, and the Name Change Policy Working Group has been doing good work in this area. That site has a number of resources and guiding principles for developing this kind of policy.

As RO-Crate encourages the use of ORCiDs or other persistent identifiers for people, this is a good starting point. However, we do currently encourage people to include their names as well when creating their own RO-Crates, and RO-Crates may be published in any data repository - both of which present challenges if these are to be updated later.

Is there any existing guidance/practice for editing published RO-Crates that we could build upon?