CRediT in JSON-LD

A minimal author + roles object

Schema.org Person with roleName[]

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "ScholarlyArticle",
  "headline": "Example research paper",
  "author": [
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "name": "Zhang San",
      "identifier": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789",
      "roleName": [
        {
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "@id": "https://casrai.org/credit/roles/conceptualization",
          "name": "Conceptualization",
          "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/credit"
        },
        {
          "@type": "DefinedTerm",
          "@id": "https://casrai.org/credit/roles/software",
          "name": "Software",
          "additionalType": "lead"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Per-role DefinedTerm

Each CRediT role page on this site emits a stand-alone DefinedTerm JSON-LD payload. This is what Google's Rich Results Test consumes for indexing.

Standalone DefinedTerm for the Investigation role

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/credit/roles/investigation",
  "name": "Investigation",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/credit/roles/investigation",
  "description": "Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/credit",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/credit/roles/investigation",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

DefinedTermSet for the full CRediT vocabulary

The 14-role taxonomy as a DefinedTermSet

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTermSet",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/credit#set",
  "name": "Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)",
  "description": "14 standardised contributor roles for scholarly research outputs. ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022.",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/credit",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "version": "ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022",
  "identifier": "Z39.104-2022",
  "hasDefinedTerm": [
    { "@id": "https://casrai.org/credit/roles/conceptualization" },
    { "@id": "https://casrai.org/credit/roles/data-curation" },
    // ... 12 more
  ]
}