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Dictionary · 11 pages

The CASRAI Dictionary

1,610 shared terms across 24 research-administration domains, open under CC-BY 4.0.

Dictionary overview

Browse the dictionary Objects Picklists Document templates Dictionary changelog About the dictionary Cite the dictionary Contribute a term Download the dictionary FAIR principles assessment Reproducibility domain

CRediT · 11 pages

Contributor Roles Taxonomy

14 contributor roles, standardised as ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 and adopted by thousands of journals.

CRediT overview

The 14 CRediT roles For authors For publishers For institutions ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 History of CRediT Adoption tracker Translations JATS XML encoding JSON-LD encoding How to cite CRediT

For Authors · 8 pages

Guidance for authors

Write accurate contributorship statements, disclose AI use, and keep your identifiers in order.

For Authors overview

CRediT statement guidance AI disclosure Narrative CV (R4RI)Persistent identifiers Medical research Funder mandates Templates FAQ

For Institutions

For Institutions · 7 pages

Guidance for institutions

CRIS integration, compliance, and training for research offices and libraries.

For Institutions overview

CRIS integration Library guidance Research office workflows Compliance (NSPM-33, GDPR)Training materials Case studies Policy templates

For Publishers · 4 pages

Guidance for publishers

Adopt CRediT in submission systems, peer review, and production metadata.

For Publishers overview

Submission systems Peer-review CRediT Publisher scorecard Best practices

Implement · 11 pages

Implementer toolkit

APIs, encodings, and integration playbooks for developers and metadata teams.

Implement overview

GraphQL API REST API JATS XML JSON-LD ORCID integration Crossref deposit DataCite mapping WordPress / OJS plugins Code examples Submission-system playbooks CRIS / submission integrations

Guides · 16 pages

Guides & topic clusters

Practical how-to guides organised into ten topic clusters, plus side-by-side standards comparisons.

Guides overview

Research Data Management CRediT & Authorship Identifiers & CRIS Integrity & Compliance Scholarly Publishing Scholarly Writing Grants Management & Funding Clinical Research Admin Technology Transfer Laboratory Operations & Safety Direct comparisons Plain-language explainers AI Writing & Research Tools Funders (NIH, UKRI…)Publishers (Elsevier, PLOS…)Regions (US, UK, EU…)

News · 4 pages

News & perspectives

Essays, working-group updates, and announcements from the CASRAI community.

Perspectives Working-group updates Press releases Newsletters

About · 8 pages

About CASRAI

Mission, governance, and the community that stewards the standards.

Mission History Board Team Working groups Members Partners Funders

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Editorial category Track C

Machine-actionable data management plans

RDA DMP Common Standard and the ecosystem of maDMP tools.

29 July 2026
DMPTool’s Rebuild: What’s Changing, and When
DMPTool is rebuilding on a modern API architecture for machine-actionable DMPs. Its summer 2026 target has slipped to late 2026 after NIH/NSF changes.
12 March 2026
Reading the RDA DMP Common Standard v2 changelog
RDA’s DMP Common Standard v2 reorganises the machine-actionable data management plan. A field-by-field walkthrough of what changed and why.
22 January 2026
Research data management plans go machine-actionable: the maDMP transition
From PDF DMP to RDA-compliant maDMP: tooling, integration, and the new requirement for software-management plans alongside data plans.

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