RIMP (CASRAI)

Research Information Management (CRIS) Certification — Professional

LevelProfessionalRIMRIMP (CASRAI)

100 h

Nominal

Self-paced study

Lessons

12 modules

Domains

Exam blueprint

Exam items

Per attempt

70%

Pass mark

Fixed, uncurved

Retake wait

Days

What you earn

The credential itself

Pass the examination and CASRAI issues this certificate and the post-nominal RIMP (CASRAI), signed by the Programme Director and verifiable by anyone, permanently, from the code on its face.

CASRAI Certification

Certificate of Professional Competence

This is to certify that

Dr. Amelia R. Hartley

has completed the prescribed programme of study and passed the examination in

Research Information Management (CRIS) — Professional

and is admitted to the designationRIMP (CASRAI)

Verify atcasrai.org/verify/CASRAI-RIM-2026-DW2PG0

Specimen. Issued as a signed PDF and as a machine-readable Open Badge; the holder and code shown are illustrative.

How it appears on your CV

Certifications

RIMP (CASRAI) — Research Information Management (CRIS), Professional

CASRAI·Issued Mar 2026·Credential ID CASRAI-RIM-2026-DW2PG0

casrai.org/verify/CASRAI-RIM-2026-DW2PG0

Every certificate is issued under the signature of Dr. Diana Nieves Castro, MD, Programme Director of CASRAI Certification, who sets the syllabus, blueprint and pass mark for this credential.

It certifies that its holder passed the CASRAI examination for this course on the date shown, scored against the blueprint and pass mark published on this page — and anyone can confirm it from the verification code, without an account and without contacting us.

About this credential

What it covers

Body of knowledge

Exam blueprint

The exam is assembled to these weights on every attempt. They are published before purchase because a blueprint you cannot see is not a blueprint.

Domains and weights8 domains · 5 scored items
Domain	Weight	Items
The research information landscape and the RIM/CRIS distinctionP1	8%≈ 1 item	≈ 1
Data models, CERIF and entity architectureP2	15%≈ 1 item	≈ 1
System landscape, selection and implementationP3	12%≈ 1 item	≈ 1
Identifiers, authority control and entity disambiguationP4	14%≈ 1 item	≈ 1
Integration, harvesting and ingest engineeringP5	15%≈ 1 item	≈ 1
Data quality, deduplication and curationP6	12%≈ 1 item	≈ 1
Reporting, national assessment and compliance monitoringP7	14%≈ 1 item	≈ 1
Governance, stewardship and the public portalP8	10%≈ 1 item	≈ 1
Total	100%	5

Item counts are approximate. Each attempt draws a fresh form to the weights above, so the exact number of items per domain varies between attempts.

Syllabus

12 modules, 12 lessons

Every lesson and every learning outcome is listed. The lesson bodies open on enrolment; nothing else about the course is withheld.

12 modules · 12 lessons · 100 h

Lesson material opens once you are enrolled. The full syllabus and every learning outcome are shown here so you can judge the coverage before you pay.

Module 1
P-M1
1 lesson · 6 h
1. Locked.The research information landscape6 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Map an institution's research information estate and assign systems of record.
  - Diagnose a reported failure as a data, system, workflow or policy problem.
  - Compare at least three national research information models and analyse the trade-offs each embodies.
  - Describe accurately the provenance of the field's shared vocabularies, including the 2022 distribution of CASRAI's assets.
Module 2
P-M2
1 lesson · 10 h
1. Locked.Entity modelling for research information10 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Design an entity model fragment for a stated requirement.
  - Critique an existing model and justify proposed changes.
  - Decide whether a requirement calls for a new entity, attribute, relationship type or vocabulary term.
  - Model person, organisation, output, project, funding, facility and equipment correctly, including their temporal and multilingual aspects.
Module 3
P-M3
1 lesson · 8 h
1. Locked.CERIF and the semantic layer8 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Explain CERIF's structure: base entities, link entities, semantic layer, multilingual attributes.
  - Map a local model to CERIF and identify what is lost in the mapping.
  - Design a controlled vocabulary with governance for its terms.
  - Plan a model version change without breaking downstream consumers.
Module 4
P-M4
1 lesson · 10 h
1. Locked.System landscape, selection and migration10 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Construct evaluation criteria for a CRIS procurement grounded in a data model rather than a feature list.
  - Assess a product against those criteria.
  - Plan a migration including reconciliation and cutover.
  - Specify exit and data-portability terms.
Module 5
P-M5
1 lesson · 10 h
1. Locked.Identifiers and authority control10 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Design an institutional ORCID integration including the permission model.
  - Reconcile legacy affiliation strings to ROR.
  - Evaluate the fitness of a given identifier for a given purpose.
  - Measure and report identifier coverage honestly.
Module 6
P-M6
1 lesson · 8 h
1. Locked.Entity disambiguation in practice8 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Construct a person-matching rule set and evaluate it against precision and recall.
  - Investigate a contested attribution and document the resolution.
  - Analyse how disambiguation failures distribute unequally across research communities and propose mitigations.
Module 7
P-M7
1 lesson · 10 h
1. Locked.Integration and harvesting10 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Specify a harvesting pipeline including sources, cadence and precedence.
  - Configure field-level merge rules with provenance.
  - Determine what a licensed data source permits to be stored, displayed and re-exported.
  - Design a claim workflow that researchers will use.
Module 8
P-M8
1 lesson · 8 h
1. Locked.Ingest engineering and failure handling8 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Diagnose an ingest failure from logs and record counts.
  - Design monitoring that alerts on absence as well as on error.
  - Handle rate limits, partial failures and poison records.
  - Plan a backfill and replay.
Module 9
P-M9
1 lesson · 10 h
1. Locked.Data quality, deduplication and curation10 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Define and report data-quality measures.
  - Design deduplication rules for persons, outputs, organisations and projects, and evaluate each against precision and recall.
  - Set and defend an automated-merge threshold.
  - Operate a curation queue to a service standard.
Module 10
P-M10
1 lesson · 8 h
1. Locked.Reporting and national assessment8 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Produce a submission from CRIS data and validate it against a published schema.
  - Reconcile a reported figure to source and defend it.
  - Conduct a data-readiness gap analysis ahead of a submission.
Module 11
P-M11
1 lesson · 6 h
1. Locked.Open-access compliance monitoring6 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Model the data required to evidence compliance with a stated OA policy.
  - Implement an automated compliance check and interpret its exceptions.
  - Explain the difference between compliance monitoring and enforcement.
Module 12
P-M12
1 lesson · 6 h
1. Locked.Governance, privacy and the public portal6 h · Locked
  On completion you will be able to
  - Draft a research information governance framework with defined roles.
  - Apply data-protection principles to a portal display decision.
  - Respond to a researcher's objection to public display.
  - Evaluate the case for open metadata.

Assessment

How the exam works

The exam is closed-book and multiple choice. Each attempt draws a fresh form to the domain weights above, so no two attempts are the same paper and no answer key circulates. The pass mark is 70% and is fixed — there is no curve, no quota and no adjustment by cohort.

Scoring is immediate. You are shown your overall result and, for every item, the option you chose, the correct option and the reasoning behind it — whether you passed or not. A failed attempt may be retaken after 90 days. The wait exists so a retake is a second attempt at the material rather than a second attempt at remembering the paper.

Forms are assembled to the blueprint above or not at all: where a domain cannot yet be sampled to that standard, the exam declines to start rather than issue an unbalanced paper. Your material and progress are never affected, and there is no time limit on when you sit.

Passing candidates are issued a certificate with a verification code. Anyone can check that code on our public verification page without an account and without contacting us.

Certifying authority

Signed by Dr. Diana Nieves Castro, MD

CASRAI’s certification programme is academically and medically directed by Dr. Diana Nieves Castro, MD, Programme Director, who sets the syllabus and blueprint for this credential and signs every certificate issued under it.

CASRAI has maintained the terminology and reporting standards of research administration for over a decade. It assumed leadership of the CRediT contributor-roles taxonomy in 2014 and carried it through to adoption as ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022, now in use by publishers, funders and institutions worldwide. This examination is drawn from that body of work.

What the credential certifies: that its holder passed the CASRAI examination for this course on the date shown, scored against the blueprint and pass mark published above — verifiable by anyone, permanently, from the code on its face.

Before you buy

The syllabus, learning outcomes, exam blueprint, pass mark and retake policy on this page are the complete specification of this credential. Everything that determines whether you pass is published here before you pay.

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