Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
The Person entity in CERIF, with linked entities binding it to OrgUnits (as employee) and Projects (as participant).
- Is an instance
The Publication entity in Pure, with linked Person, OrgUnit, Project, and Funding relationships.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A free-text 'biography' field on a researcher's webpage is not a CRIS entity.
- Not an instance
A standalone PDF document on a desktop is not a CRIS entity.
Editorial commentary
CRIS systems are entity-relationship systems by design, in contrast to bibliographic or repository systems where the single ‘item’ dominates. The research-entity model lets a CRIS answer questions such as ‘which Persons in this OrgUnit are PI on Projects funded by Funder X with Publications since 2020’. CERIF formalises this entity layer; each CRIS product implements it with extensions and constraints. Persistent identifiers (ORCID for Person, ROR for OrgUnit, DOI for Publication, RAiD for Project) are increasingly used as the cross-CRIS join keys for these entities.
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Also known as
CRIS entity
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Research entity (CRIS)"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/research-entity-cris" />{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Research entity (CRIS)",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/research-entity-cris",
"description": "A first-class object in a CRIS data model — typically Person, Project, Publication, Organisation Unit, Funding, Equipment, or Activity — that has its own identifier, metadata schema, and relationships to other entities, and that can be managed and reported on independently.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-information-systems-and-integration/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/research-entity-cris",
"sameAs": [
"CRIS entity"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
