What is the legal name of the organisation behind casrai.org?

The site is operated by CASRAI, full name "Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information". CASRAI was originally founded in 2006 as a Canadian non-profit; the current revival operates as a community-stewarded standards consortium with editorial board governance. We are working toward formal non-profit incorporation in 2026.

Where is CASRAI based?

CASRAI is a distributed, internationally-staffed editorial operation with no single headquarters. Editorial board members and working-group chairs are located in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, and Australia. Operational correspondence is routed through the editorial address on this page; postal address will be confirmed once incorporation completes.

Who is editorially responsible for the content on this site?

The CASRAI Editorial Board is responsible for the content of casrai.org. The board approves the editorial calendar, signs off each Dictionary release, and is named on the colophon page at /about/board. Per-article authorship is attributed at the foot of each editorial post using CRediT contributor roles.

How do I report a defamation, copyright, or right-to-be-forgotten concern?

Send a written notice to legal@casrai.org with the URL of the page concerned, your relationship to the content, and a clear statement of the requested remedy. We acknowledge within 5 working days and aim to resolve substantive complaints within 30 days. For an immediate take-down request supported by a court order, mark the email "URGENT — court order attached".

Does this site use cookies or track me?

casrai.org uses only strictly-necessary first-party cookies for session and CSRF protection. No analytics, advertising, fingerprinting, or third-party trackers are loaded. The cookie policy is at /legal/cookies; the privacy policy is at /legal/privacy.

Who runs the technical infrastructure?

The site is built on Faust.js (a headless WordPress framework) with the editorial CMS hosted on hardened WordPress, fronted by Caddy with valid Let's Encrypt TLS, and deployed on a small AWS footprint in eu-west-1. Source for the editorial application is available on request to engineering@casrai.org.

Legal

Imprint

Legal and editorial information about the CASRAI organisation, its responsible persons, and how to reach the right contact channel for any concern about content on this site.

This imprint (German Impressum) names the persons and entities legally and editorially responsible for the content on casrai.org. It satisfies the disclosure requirements of the EU’s Digital Services Act, the German Telemediengesetz §5, the UK’s electronic-commerce regulations, and the site-owner-identification practices recommended by the Trust Project for editorial publishers. For licensing terms see /legal/license; for terms of use see /legal/terms; for privacy and data handling see /legal/privacy.

Section 1

Organisation

Operating name: CASRAI
Full name: Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information
Originally founded: 2006 (Canada, as a non-profit consortium)
Stewardship handover: 2020 — substantive assets transferred to NISO (CRediT), euroCRIS (CERIF), CODATA (RDM Terminology). See /about/history.
Current operating mode: Community-stewarded standards programme; editorial board governance; CC-BY 4.0 outputs.
Postal address: To be confirmed pending 2026 incorporation. Until then, written correspondence: [email protected].

Section 2

Editorial responsibility

Editorial responsibility for the content of casrai.orgrests with the CASRAI Editorial Board, which is named on the colophon page at /about/board. The board approves the editorial calendar, sets editorial standards for Dictionary entries and CRediT-adjacent guidance, signs off each release, and reviews complaints under section 4 below.

Per-article authorship is attributed at the foot of each editorial post using CRediT contributor roles — the same vocabulary the site develops. This applies equally to long-form perspectives in /news/perspectives, working-group outputs at /about/working-groups, and dictionary entries at /dictionary. Working-group chairs are individually responsible for the integrity of their domain’s entries between releases; the board is responsible for sign-off at each twice-yearly release point.

The originating CASRAI consortium (2006–2020) handed substantive stewardship to NISO (for CRediT), euroCRIS (for CERIF / Catalogue of Elements), and CODATA (for the Research Data Management Terminology) before winding down. The 2026 revival respects those handovers: we federate with each steward rather than re-deriving their work. See /federation for the full stewardship map and /about/mission for the operational principle behind it.

Section 3

Contact channels

We route correspondence to the channel best matched to your inquiry. Each address is monitored by a different responsible party; using the right one shortens our turnaround materially. Detailed routing guidance for each channel lives at /contact.

General: [email protected] — anything that doesn’t fit a more specific channel.
Editorial: [email protected] — editorial board, perspectives submissions, working-group outputs. Routing detail at /contact/editorial.
Working groups: [email protected] — joining a WG, chair recruitment, scope discussions. See /contact/working-groups.
Membership: [email protected] — institutional membership inquiries. See /contact/membership.
Press: [email protected] — press inquiries, interview requests, brand-asset access. See /contact/press.
Legal & privacy: [email protected] — copyright concerns, defamation notices, data-subject requests under the UK GDPR or EU GDPR, court orders.
Accessibility: [email protected] — WCAG remediation requests. See /legal/accessibility.
Technical: [email protected] — GraphQL endpoint questions, integration support, bug reports.

Section 4

Complaints, take-downs, and right-to-be-forgotten

We treat content complaints — defamation, factual inaccuracy, copyright infringement, GDPR-grounded erasure or rectification requests — as first-class editorial work, not as legal nuisances to be deflected. Send a written notice to [email protected] with the URL of the page concerned, your relationship to the content, and a clear statement of the remedy you are requesting. We acknowledge receipt within 5 working days, and we aim to resolve substantive complaints within 30 days.

For court-ordered take-down requests, mark the subject line “URGENT — court order attached” and include the order as a PDF. We act on a valid order from a court with jurisdiction over the operating entity. For copyright complaints under the US DMCA, send a properly-formatted notice including all six elements specified in 17 USC §512(c)(3); we will respond within the statutory window.

We publish a transparency report at the end of each editorial year summarising the number and category of complaints received and how each was resolved. The first edition will publish in early 2027 covering the 2026 calendar year.

Section 5

Technical operations

This website is built on Faust.js as a Next.js front-end against a headless WordPress editorial CMS. WordPress authentication is locked to editorial board accounts; the public-facing site is a statically-generated Next.js bundle fronted by Caddy with valid Let’s Encrypt TLS. The Dictionary is exposed through a GraphQL endpoint at /implement/graphql; CRediT and Dictionary content is also distributed in machine-readable formats (JSON-LD, RDF Turtle, JSON, CSV) for LLM and RAG pipelines — see /credit/for-llms and /dictionary/for-llms.

Hosting runs on a modest AWS footprint in eu-west-1 (Dublin) with automated daily snapshots and a 7-day rolling restore window. No analytics or advertising trackers are loaded; only strictly-necessary first-party session and CSRF cookies are set — see /legal/cookies for the full list. Source for the editorial application is available on request to [email protected].

FAQ

Frequently asked

What is the legal name of the organisation behind casrai.org?: The site is operated by CASRAI, full name "Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information". CASRAI was originally founded in 2006 as a Canadian non-profit; the current revival operates as a community-stewarded standards consortium with editorial board governance. We are working toward formal non-profit incorporation in 2026.
Where is CASRAI based?: CASRAI is a distributed, internationally-staffed editorial operation with no single headquarters. Editorial board members and working-group chairs are located in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, and Australia. Operational correspondence is routed through the editorial address on this page; postal address will be confirmed once incorporation completes.
Who is editorially responsible for the content on this site?: The CASRAI Editorial Board is responsible for the content of casrai.org. The board approves the editorial calendar, signs off each Dictionary release, and is named on the colophon page at /about/board. Per-article authorship is attributed at the foot of each editorial post using CRediT contributor roles.
How do I report a defamation, copyright, or right-to-be-forgotten concern?: Send a written notice to [email protected] with the URL of the page concerned, your relationship to the content, and a clear statement of the requested remedy. We acknowledge within 5 working days and aim to resolve substantive complaints within 30 days. For an immediate take-down request supported by a court order, mark the email "URGENT — court order attached".
Does this site use cookies or track me?: casrai.org uses only strictly-necessary first-party cookies for session and CSRF protection. No analytics, advertising, fingerprinting, or third-party trackers are loaded. The cookie policy is at /legal/cookies; the privacy policy is at /legal/privacy.
Who runs the technical infrastructure?: The site is built on Faust.js (a headless WordPress framework) with the editorial CMS hosted on hardened WordPress, fronted by Caddy with valid Let's Encrypt TLS, and deployed on a small AWS footprint in eu-west-1. Source for the editorial application is available on request to [email protected].

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Last reviewed by the CASRAI Editorial Board: May 2026.