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Project (CRIS)

In CRIS terminology, an entity representing a discrete research project with a defined scope, time period, participating people and organisations, funding source(s), and intended or actual outputs — typically the central organising entity for activity-level reporting.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    A 5-year ARC Discovery Project recorded as a Project in a CRIS, linked to its PI, CIs, host OrgUnit, ARC Funder ID and award.

  • Is an instance

    An H2020 collaborative project as a single Project across all consortium partners' CRIS systems.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    An individual publication is an Output, not a Project.

  • Not an instance

    A research group's standing programme of activity may be modelled as a programme above the Project level.

Editorial commentary

Project in CRIS encompasses both internally funded and externally funded projects, and large collaborative endeavours alongside small single-investigator projects. The Project entity holds title, short and full abstract, keywords, project type (basic, applied, infrastructure), discipline tags, scientific area, start/end dates, status (active, complete, terminated), and links to People, Organisations, Funding entities, Outputs, and other Projects. The Project entity is the most common subject of a RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) when one is minted.

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Also known as

CRIS Project entity

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element
xml
<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Project (CRIS)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/project-cris" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
json
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  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-information-systems-and-integration/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/project-cris",
  "sameAs": [
    "CRIS Project entity"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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