DataCite and ARDC are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to deliver RAiD, a service and system to identify and track research projects and activities. The DataCite–ARDC partnership is a pivotal step in providing a fast, robust, high quality, and reliable RAiD service for researchers that will be sustained over the long term.
DataCite is a community-led organisation with a vision to connect research and advance knowledge. ARDC is Australia’s leading research data infrastructure facility and is the Australian DataCite Consortium Lead. RAiD is an ISO standard (23527) with ARDC as the global RAiD ISO Registration Authority. RAiD is expanding internationally and later this year will be incorporated into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
What problem is RAiD solving?
RAiD is designed to address a key challenge faced by researchers, research administrators, funders, publishers, and others in the research ecosystem—maintaining consistent and up-to-date information on projects throughout the research lifecycle. Unlike a grant, which a researcher receives, a project is something that a researcher does. Project information is also dynamic; what is planned is not necessarily what is delivered, while project contributors and organisations may change over time.
