Research Activity Identifier, an ISO-standardised persistent identifier (ISO 23527) for a research project or activity, providing a stable handle around which related people, organisations, outputs, instruments, and funding can be linked over the activity's lifetime.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A RAiD minted at project award for a 5-year ARC Discovery Project, with ORCID iDs of CIs added as they join, DataCite DOIs added as outputs are deposited, and a Funder ID added at award.
Is an instance
A multi-institution collaboration using one RAiD as the project's stable reference in publications and progress reports.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A grant award number from a funder's own database is not a RAiD.
Not an instance
A DOI for the final report of a project is an output identifier, not a project-activity identifier.

Editorial commentary

RAiD was developed by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and standardised as ISO 23527:2022. It is a Handle-based identifier resolvable under https://raid.org/ and operates as a ‘container’ identifier: rather than identifying an output, it identifies the research activity itself and accumulates pointers to ORCID iDs (participants), ROR IDs (organisations), DOIs (outputs), Crossref Funder/RAiD funding identifiers, and instrument PIDs over time.

References

ISO 23527:2022, Information and documentation — Research activity identifier (RAiD).
ARDC, 'RAiD: Research Activity Identifier' (ardc.edu.au).

Also known as

Research Activity Identifier

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="RAiD"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/raid" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/raid",
  "name": "RAiD",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/raid",
  "description": "Research Activity Identifier, an ISO-standardised persistent identifier (ISO 23527) for a research project or activity, providing a stable handle around which related people, organisations, outputs, instruments, and funding can be linked over the activity's lifetime.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/persistent-identifiers#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/raid",
  "sameAs": [
    "Research Activity Identifier"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:10:35",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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