A persistent identifier and global registry for identifying, tracking, and sharing research projects

RAiD is designed to address key challenges faced by researchers, research organisations, funders, infrastructure providers, and others in the research ecosystem—maintaining consistent and up-to-date information on projects throughout the research lifecycle.

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  • Unambiguous identification

    Provide your research project with a unique persistent identifier tor discovery, reporting, and communication

  • A global research project registry

    Combine all your research project information into standardised RAiD metadata records with multi-party access, a version history, and an automatically generated landing page

  • Reporting and assessment

    Track and report your project's resourcing, inputs, and outputs over time to gain strategic insight into your project’s outcomes or impact

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In Austalia and New Zealand

  • The ARDC is the RAiD Registration Agency for Australia and New Zealand.

  • RAiD is offered as a free service within this region, with no cost to organisations or individuals.

  • Research organisations can offer RAiD to their staff by signing a Service Schedule with the ARDC. Contact us at contact@raid.org.

  • Individual researchers in Australia at organisations that do not yet offer RAiD should ask their Library or Research Office to request access to the RAiD service from the ARDC. We can facilitate this request if you contact us at contact@raid.org.

In Europe

  • SURF (Netherlands) is the RAiD Registration Agency for Europe.

  • Individual researchers or research organisations should contact SURF directly to discuss service acquisition.

Elsewhere (global)

  • As the global Registration Authority, the ARDC is committed to the timely rollout of RAiD for all eigible users worldwide.

  • At this time, RAiD is offered as a free service, with no cost to organisations or individuals.

  • Research organisations located outside Australia, New Zealand, or Europe can offer RAiD to their staff by signing a Service Schedule with the ARDC. Contact us at contact@raid.org.

  • Individual researchers outside Australasia or Europe will have direct access to RAiDs. To register your interest, contact us at contact@raid.org.

Eligibility

  • RAiD supports research projects.

  • A research project is an endeavour or undertaking that aims to advance knowledge, with a set scope that takes place over a limited (if potentially long) period of time.

  • A project is not identical to a grant; a project is something you do, while a grant is something you receive. Identifiers for grants are available from Crossref or DataCite (and may constitute part of a RAiD record).

  • RAiDs should not be used for organisations (acquire an ROR instead) or durable organisational units like faculties, departments, or laboratories.

  • If you have any questions about the appropriateness of RAiD for your use case, please contact us at contact@raid.org.

Documentation and support

RAiD’s value

RAiD is a game-changer for the global research community

Projects and activities can now be uniquely identified and tracked across the research lifecycle

RAiD allows project information to be viewed, shared, managed, and linked to other PIDs globally

RAiD can be integrated into existing software platforms to eliminate double-entry of information

Who should use RAiD?

RAiD is designed for use worldwide with project information ttat can be made public (temporary embargoes are supported)

  • Research infrastructure providers

    Research infrastructure providers

    organisations that provide research infrastructure or services such as imaging, HPC, or specialised softare for researchers (and want to track outcomes from this usage)

  • Funders

    Funders

    organisations that fund research or research infrastructure (and want to track the outcomes and impact of this funding)

  • Research organisations

    Research organisations

    organisations wishing to identify and track project inputs and outputs (e.g. contributors, collaborators, data sets, samples, instruments, tools, grants, events, grey literature, journal publications, and all associated PIDs)

  • Researchers

    Researchers

    researchers and research teams wishing to track and share information about their projects

  • Other PID providers

    Other PID providers

    other PID providers that want to integrate project PIDs or leverage proect matadata to help build research graphs

Why get a RAiD?

RAiD helps you, your team, and your organisation spend more time doing research and less time managing or administering it.  RAiD also opens the research project ‘black box’ exposing key project information, and how it has changed over time, in the interest of transparency and open scholarship.

FAIR, equitable and sustainable access

RAiD incorporates and facilitaties FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable) data principles:

  • RAiD is open-source and aligned with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)

  • Provides a globally available project registry with human- and machine-readable project metadata, contributing to the documentation of data and other research outpus.

FAIR RAiD aid for the FAIRCORE4EOSC project

RAiD is being developed to automatically prepare and submit research service applications on behalf of European researchers

The FAIRCORE4EOSC project in Europe is developing an online marketplace for European researchers and collaborators to easily select multiple research services from.  These services require an application that grant a researcher access to (e.g.) information stored in a supercomputer or data centre.

RAiD is being used to:

  1. Store each European project’s information as RAiD project metadata

  2. Provide RAiD metadata access after a research service application has been selected from FAIRCORE4EOSC’s online marketplace

  3. Simultaneously prepare and submit the selected research service applications on behalf of a researcher – via FAIRCORE4EOSC’s marketplace system framework

  4. Provide automatic notification of each research service’s approval to the researcher, if no other exceptions apply.   


The result?  A researcher can receive access notifications from multiple research services within minutes, rather than waiting weeks or months for any reply.

RAiD benefits

Get time-saving, stable and persistent RAiDs for your research projects or activitiesI

Integration with existing data management systems allows RAiD to minimise time lost on administrative effort and double-data entry when producing reports, preparing and submitting research service applications, or strategically analysing project impacts and outcomes.

  • Empower and encourage your research organisation to get RAiD

  • Customise and control the information your research organisation would like kept and shared for a RAiD project or activity

  • Accurately store and view RAiD metadata information whenever needed at any stage of a project or activity, including after its closure

  • Track future funding requirements, project outcomes and changes made over time for a RAiD project or activity

  • Fast-track project administration and save considerable research time and money

Why RAiD is worth investing in


The ARDC is currently receiving heightened international interest from research organisations keen to learn how they can adopt RAiD into their research activities, or become either a RAiD Registration Agency or a service point.  

Worthwhile reasons

  • A high global interest in and support of RAiD is increasing across the global research community, including North America, Oceania, Europe and South America

  • RAiD has been developed as a needed PID for research projects and activities, via a RAiD system that is underpinned by ISO 23527 and DOIs that are minted by DataCite.

  • The customised use of open RAiD metadata is a game-changer, incl. the automatic compiling and submitting of multiple research applications, submissions and grants all at the same time

  • Intelligent analysis of RAiD metadata will indicate project outcomes and support strategic activities, such as planning, reporting, funding and developing new research hypotheses.

Key issues that
RAiD solves

  • Not knowing where research data has originated from or what it is associated to

  • Keeping track of project activities for oversight and visibility, as funding, tasks and their contributors frequently change over time

  • Minimising errors in forgotten, lost, hard-to-fine or superseded project information by providing a single, reliable place of storage.

Want to know more? 

Go to our RAiD Documentation site and then contact us with your RAiD questions.

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