Federation partner
NISO
The National Information Standards Organization stewards CRediT as ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022. CASRAI federates with NISO via canonical URIs, sameAs pointers, and the NISO CRediT Standing Committee.
What NISO stewards
The Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) as a formal standard: ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022. Approved by ANSI on 14 January 2022; published by NISO on 8 February 2022.
The standard is published under CC-BY 4.0 — explicit reuse, translation, and embedding permission.
The NISO CRediT Standing Committee
NISO maintains a permanent Standing Committee for CRediT. Co-chairs include CRediT veterans like Liz Allen (F1000) and Simon Kerridge (formerly University of Kent / ARMA). The committee:
- Maintains the taxonomy (additions, clarifications, deprecations)
- Facilitates community engagement and implementation feedback
- Coordinates with adjacent standards (JATS, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite, ICMJE)
- Develops the roadmap (extensions for acknowledged contributors, peer-review credit)
How CASRAI federates
- Every CRediT role page on this site declares
sameAspointing at the canonical NISO URI (e.g.,casrai.org/credit/roles/conceptualization) - The dictionary's 14 CRediT-role mirrors link out prominently and mark NISO as canonical source
- CASRAI editorial board members participate in NISO Standing Committee work where appropriate
- CASRAI Dictionary release notes coordinate with NISO standard revisions
Resources
- ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 — the published standard text
- NISO CRediT Standing Committee — the maintenance body
- CASRAI: canonical CRediT homepage
- CASRAI: about ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022
- CASRAI: the history of CRediT
