Declaring Representative

NIKOLAI proposal: a Declaring Representative is the named person or organisational role authorized to submit a Mapping Declaration on behalf of a specific organisation, attesting they hold standing to make a statement that binds that organisation's position on a NIKOLAI crosswalk row. This is a role definition only — as of this writing NIKOLAI has filed no declarations under it, so no real Declaring Representative yet exists in the system. The Declaring Representative is who acts; the declaration itself, including what it asserts, remains N9's Mapping Declaration record. This wording is a NIKOLAI editorial synthesis, not a quotation from any single source.

This is CASRAI's own proposed definition, not a definition any named organisation has agreed to. See what NIKOLAI is and is not.

Source of record

Where this definition comes from

ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 (CRediT, Contributor Roles Taxonomy), §1, Scope
“CRediT establishes a standardized set of roles to describe each author's individual contributions to the work, promoting transparency of contributions.”
https://www.niso.org/publications/z39104-2022-credit

Divergence

Where sources materially disagree

A material divergence from CRediT, not just a structural echo: ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 assigns each of its 14 roles to a specific NAMED PERSON on a paper's public byline. NIKOLAI's Mapping Declarations do not do this -- the declaring individual's name is collected at signup only to personalise a confirmation email and is never persisted to the declaration record or exposed publicly; only the organisation name is. Every N10 role in the current system is, in practice, assigned to an organisation, never to a named individual. If per-person credit is added later, this divergence_note should be the first thing revised.

Gap

Operationally real, but only implicitly: casrai_nikolai_decl_rest_submit() records _submitted_by (a WP user id) on every declaration, which is in practice this role's incumbent for that one declaration -- but no field anywhere stores an explicit "role: Declaring Representative" label, and the person's name is never persisted or shown publicly (only the organisation name is). Do not read this as a fully realised, named-person role in the CRediT sense; see the declaration-role-statement element for why.