(31 Jan 2023) After almost 4 years of effort, the ISO standard for the ARDC’s Research Activity Identifier (RAiD) has been published.
RAiD is a persistent identifier for research projects and activities. It is one of the identifier services owned and offered by the ARDC. RAiD connects existing persistent identifiers for researchers, institutions, outputs and tools with key project information to create a timeline of research projects.
The new international standard provides a high-level definition of the RAiD system and its governance.
Researchers and research institutions that utilize RAiD will have a single source of truth for information about a project.
RAiDs link project information (metadata), contributors, organizations, inputs and outputs with important project metadata found nowhere else. They allow users to:
- report and evaluate project outcomes and impact
- save time on administration and reporting, through the reducing double-entry of data and ready access to project information
- provide better tools for analysis and decision support
- produce and expose a project’s history, improving transparency and facilitating the understanding and reuse of project outputs like datasets.
RAiD is owned and operated by the ARDC, which the new ISO standard designates as the global RAiD Registration Authority. The Registration Authority established the policies for the RAiD system and is empowered to set up Registration Agencies around the globe to provide RAiD minting services.
Source: ARDC
