Compliance mapping

National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 covers research-security disclosure for US-federally-funded research. The OSTP implementation guidance (2022, updated through 2024–2025) requires structured disclosure of current and pending support, foreign components, in-kind contributions and outside positions. NSF and NIH have each implemented agency-specific disclosure portals; the underlying data model is consistent across agencies.

The CASRAI dictionary’s research-security domain provides the controlled vocabulary for the institutional side of this work: current support, pending support, foreign component, in-kind contribution, outside position, conflict of commitment, conflict of interest. These terms map directly onto the NSF and NIH form fields.

The General Data Protection Regulation governs the processing of personal data by EU-based institutions and by non-EU institutions processing data on EU residents. For research workflows, the operational fields are consent type, lawful basis, retention period, data-sharing scope, data-protection impact assessment status, and pseudonymisation level.

The CASRAI dictionary aligns its personal-data terms with the GDPR vocabulary (data subject, data controller, data processor, lawful basis, special-category data) and provides the cross-walk to the CODATA data-stewardship terms used in the international data-sharing literature.

Institutional Review Board (US, under 45 CFR 46), Research Ethics Committee (UK and most of Europe), and the comparable bodies in Australia, Canada and elsewhere share a common vocabulary for protocol review, informed consent, vulnerable populations, and risk classification. The CASRAI dictionary federates these terms with the WHO research-ethics framework and the CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines.

The International Council for Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice guideline (ICH E6 R3, finalised 2024) is the operative international standard for clinical-trial conduct. The CASRAI dictionary’s clinical-research domain aligns with the ICH E6 vocabulary for trial protocol, investigator brochure, case report form, adverse event reporting and trial master file structure.

For trial registration, CASRAI cross-walks ClinicalTrials.gov, ISRCTN and EudraCT identifiers into a single registration field.