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Researcher webpage

A webpage featuring a researcher's profile, which possibly may also provide links to their publications.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 19 May 2026

Editorial commentary

The webpage is hosted on the website of the researcher’s employer – for example, a university website. There may or may not be a direct connection between the institutional webpage and the same institution’s repository (see “Institutional repository”), but researchers should generally ensure that their works are deposited in a repository in order to meet the access" class="text-primary underline-offset-2 hover:underline" data-autolinked="true" title="Open access — CASRAI Dictionary">Open Access requirements of many funders, due to the potential for differences in approach to long-term preservation and access between the managers of a repository and the managers of an institutional website.

Machine-readable encodings

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JATS XML <role> element
xml
<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Researcher webpage"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/researcher-webpage" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "Researcher webpage",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/researcher-webpage/",
  "description": "A webpage featuring a researcher's profile, which possibly may also provide links to their publications.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-data-infrastructure/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/researcher-webpage/",
  "sameAs": [],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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