Research Data & Infrastructure
Coverage of the systems and standards research runs on: repositories and archives, persistent identifiers (ORCID, ROR, DOI), new releases and versions of metadata and reporting standards, and current research information systems. Closest to CASRAI's founding subject matter, and the beat where the site has the deepest existing reference corpus to link into.
Beats in this category
- Persistent Identifiers
ORCID, ROR, DOI, RAiD and related identifier infrastructure — adoption mandates, registry changes, and integration developments across the scholarly stack.…
- Repositories & Archives
Data repository launches, closures, certification decisions, and policy changes, plus long-term preservation developments affecting where research data can credibly be deposited.…
- Standards Releases & Revisions
New and revised standards affecting research reporting and metadata — CRediT, PRISMA, CONSORT, DataCite, NISO and ISO releases — with what actually changed between versions.…
All coverage (52)
- Human Centromeres Mapped at Population Scale
Nature study assembles 2,110 human centromeres across 28 populations, finds 226 haplotypes — and shows standard genomic tools can’t read them.…
- One Magnetar Dataset, Two Opposite Verdicts
A Nature paper says IXPE X-ray polarization data from a magnetar shows vacuum birefringence. A separate, earlier peer-reviewed analysis of the identical dataset says the same signal is not compelling …
- How CRediT Data Reveals Co-Corresponding Roles
A 2026 Journal of Informetrics study uses CRediT data to measure contribution among co-corresponding authors, finding it rises with byline position.…
- Why Contribution-Blind Authorship Norms Backfire
A January 2026 Royal Society Open Science paper models why contribution-insensitive authorship norms (alphabetical, senior-last) evolve via a ‘Red King’ dynamic — and shows they measurably discourage …
- OpenAlex API Keys Now Mandatory, Tiered Pricing
As of Feb. 2026, OpenAlex requires an API key for all production API use and bills most calls on usage, with a daily free allowance per key.…
- ROR 2026 Meeting: East Asia Growth, Search
ROR’s March 2026 recap of its Annual Community Meeting reports that nearly 20% of the 8,000+ organization records added in 2025 are in East Asia, and confirms ‘single search’ becomes ROR’s default aff…
- Australia’s ARC PID Action Plan Targets 2026
ARC’s 5-goal PID Action Plan — DOIs on grants, ROR on institutions, ORCID on personnel, plus a FAIR data policy — is due complete by end of 2026.…
- ORCID 2030: Its New Strategic Plan Explained
ORCID has published ORCID 2030: Advancing the Future of Research, its strategic plan for 2026-2029, built around five themes: empowering researchers, connecting research information, broadening its co…
- Software Heritage Turns 10, Named a UNESCO DPG
Software Heritage marked 10 years in Jan 2026, gained UNESCO/DPGA digital-public-good status, and struck a Sovereign Tech Agency archival partnership.…
- Cornell eCommons Goes Live on DSpace-CRIS
Cornell University Library relaunched eCommons on DSpace-CRIS, hosted by 4Science on AWS, on May 18, 2026 — a real institutional CRIS-migration case study.…
- OpenAlex’s DataCite Grant-Linking Goes Live
OpenAlex now ingests DataCite’s funder and grant metadata daily, part of a $3.6M Wellcome grant to build open funding infrastructure.…
- South Korea Rethinks Its Research Metrics
Korean universities lead on paper counts but lag on citation impact and R&D return. NRF data, a Springer Nature forum, and researcher surveys are fueling a live debate over moving past publication-cou…
- Crossref 2026: ROR IDs Up 250%, Grant DOIs Grow
Crossref’s 2026 public data file shows ROR IDs up 250% and grant-identifier links reaching 50,000 records, alongside its first Latin America Metadata Sprint.…
- Denmark’s NORA Portal Moves to Statistics Denmark
Denmark’s NORA research portal moved from DTU to Statistics Denmark in Jan. 2026, ahead of a reported consolidated, open-architecture database later in 2026.…
- Agents4Science: The Stanford/Together AI Conference That Required AI Systems as First Authors
Agents4Science 2025, organized by researchers at Stanford and Together AI, ran as a one-day virtual conference on October 22, 2025 with an unusual submission rule: an AI system had to be the paper’s p…
- How Researchers Access LSST Data: Rubin Observatory’s Data Preview 2 (2026)
How researchers access LSST data: Rubin Science Platform accounts, data-rights eligibility, and Data Preview 2’s July 2026 rollout and two-year embargo.…
- ROR’s Version-1 API and Schema Sunset (Dec 2025): What Institutions Need to Know
ROR retired version 1 of its API and metadata schema in December 2025. Here is the actual timeline, what changed in schema v2, and what to check if your institution has any ROR-consuming integration.…
- CRediT Taxonomy Translations Pass 35 Languages: What It Means for Non-English Journals
CRediT taxonomy translations now cover 35+ languages via a community project, not an official NISO release — what it means for non-English journals.…
- UKRN’s STAR Study: What the 2026 Report Found on Open Research Data at UK Universities
UKRN’s STAR Study (Working Paper 12, July 2026) finds UK universities have built open-data policy and repository infrastructure since 2016, but adoption remains compliance-driven and has stalled — her…
- Netherlands Revises Knowledge Security Guideline for 2026
The Netherlands fully revised its National Knowledge Security Guideline on 9 July 2026, updating the threat assessment and adding a risk-indicator appendix.…
- CRIS2026: euroCRIS’s 17th Conference Wraps Up in the Azores
euroCRIS’s 17th CRIS Conference (CRIS2026) drew 112 attendees to the University of the Azores in May 2026, covering open science, interoperability, and AI. A recap of what happened and why it matters …
- Crossref’s First Position Paper: PID Policy Needs a Holistic Approach
Crossref has published its first position paper, arguing that national and international PID policy focused narrowly on identifiers misses what actually makes research infrastructure work: open linked…
- HORIZON-ZEN+: AI Curation Tools Coming to Zenodo’s EU Open Research Repository
HORIZON-ZEN+, a CERN-coordinated EU project (2025-2027), adds AI-assisted curation and discovery tools to Zenodo’s EU Open Research Repository.…
- CMS CY2027 Rule Restricts Third-Party RPM/RTM Billing
CMS’s CY2027 fee schedule proposal narrows, not bans, third-party RPM/RTM billing. Here is the real mechanism, the OIG data behind it, and what it means for clinical trial billing compliance.…
- ORCID and China’s CSTR Identification Platform Sign MOU on PID Interoperability
ORCID and China’s CSTR Identification Platform signed an MOU on July 16, 2026 to pursue interoperability between their persistent identifier systems. No technical implementation details have been publ…
- Universities Set Their Own ORCID Deadlines for 2026
Federal agencies now require ORCID as a digital persistent identifier; universities are setting their own 2026 linkage deadlines ahead of enforcement.…
- ClinicalTrials.gov Phases Out Classic PRS Starting July 2026
ClinicalTrials.gov is retiring the Classic Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS) in stages through 2026 and 2027, moving every sponsor and registrant onto the Modernized PRS. Here is the conf…
- Tipping point: when does institutional CRediT capture become operationally easier than not?
Institutional CRediT capture has a fixed-cost-versus-recurring-cost crossover. A practical model of where the tipping point lies and how to reach it faster.…
- Author-instructions audit: which top-100 journals capture CRediT structurally
A 2026 audit of how the top-100 cited journals collect CRediT at submission. Coverage is up, but qualifier capture and JATS fidelity remain uneven.…
- How libraries can build a ‘CRediT helpdesk’ in 4 weeks
A practical four-week implementation plan for a library-run CRediT helpdesk, with staffing, materials, workflows, and the first-month playbook.…
- Funder ORCID iD requirements: 2026 landscape
ORCID iDs are now required by most major funders for PIs and increasingly for co-investigators. A practical map of where the requirements bite in 2026.…
- DataCite, GitHub, Zenodo: the three-cornered software-citation stack
Software citation in 2026 runs on a three-cornered stack. The roles of DataCite, GitHub, and Zenodo — and what integrators should do about the seams.…
- Project IDs in 2026: RAiD adoption update
RAiD has moved from pilot to operational service in several jurisdictions. A status report on adoption, integration patterns, and the questions still open.…
- Mentorship as a CRediT role: pro and con
Should mentorship be a CRediT role? The case for, the case against, and a proposed mid-path that recognises mentorship without breaking the taxonomy.…
- Cross-institutional CRIS interoperability: the CERIF-Pure-VIVO triangle
CRIS systems are converging on interoperability but the three dominant data models still misalign. A practical guide to the CERIF-Pure-VIVO triangle.…
- Welcome to CASRAI on its new home
The CASRAI website has moved to a modern headless stack — Next.js front, WordPress back, federated with NISO, euroCRIS, CODATA, RDA, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite and ARDC.…
- CASRAI Dictionary v2026.1 — first release
The first stable release of the modernised CASRAI Dictionary ships today: 714 entries across 20 domains, CC-BY 4.0, machine-readable in seven formats.…
- How the Software role applies to code-only outputs
When a paper’s main output is code, the CRediT Software role bears the load. A practical guide to assigning Software for code-only research outputs.…
- Carbon-aware computing for academic HPC clusters
Carbon-aware scheduling, geographic shifting, and the practical work of cutting academic HPC’s emissions footprint. What clusters are doing in 2026.…
- CARE-FAIR tension and how the GIDA Manifesto resolves it
FAIR maximises openness; CARE centres Indigenous sovereignty. A walkthrough of the GIDA Manifesto’s reconciliation framework and what implementers should do.…
- How to write a CRediT statement for medical research in 2026
ICMJE authorship plus CRediT contributorship: a practical 2026 guide to the 14 roles, lead/equal/supporting qualifiers, JATS XML, and journal-specific expectations.…
- Persistent identifiers in 2026: ORCID + ROR + RAiD + DOI
The PID quartet that anchors modern research metadata: how ORCID, ROR, RAiD, and DOIs interlock in 2026, and what’s still broken at the crosswalk layer.…
- 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.…
- Reproducibility frameworks in practice: TOP, ARRIVE, CONSORT, PRISMA
A practitioner’s tour of EQUATOR’s reporting guidelines, when each applies, FAIR4RS for software, and the registered-report turn in 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.…
- Three CRediT misuses we see in submitted papers
Role inflation, byline-order confusion, and missing writing roles: the three recurring CRediT failures editors flag, with concrete examples and fixes.…
- FAIR data assessment frameworks: a buyer’s guide for institutions
What the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) require, and the five 2026 assessment frameworks institutions use to check compliance.…
- PRISMA 2026: the next-generation systematic-review reporting standard
PRISMA’s 2026 revision adds AI-assisted screening, living review checklists, and machine-readable flow diagrams. What systematic reviewers need to update.…
- Data papers, software papers, and the limits of CRediT
Data papers and software papers don’t map cleanly onto the 14 CRediT roles. A practical guide to the friction and where the taxonomy needs work.…
- Why the next CRediT version should include ‘AI assistance’ as a role
The case for a 15th CRediT role covering AI assistance, the counter-arguments, and a draft scope statement for the CASRAI community to test.…
- Crossref’s grant-linking initiative and CRediT: a 2025 status
Crossref Grants, the Funder Registry, and the long-awaited grant-to-output linkage. What CRediT integrators need to know to consume the new graph.…
- Indigenous data governance: CARE Principles in practice
The CARE Principles, OCAP, Te Mana Raraunga, Maiam nayri Wingara, FPIC, and Traditional Knowledge Labels: integrating Indigenous data sovereignty alongside FAIR.…
