Examples
Examples from published documents
- Signup accepts only an organisation on NIKOLAI's closed list and only an email address at one of that organisation's listed domains; the contact name typed at signup is used to greet the person in the verification email and is not stored on any declaration (NIKOLAI Mapping Declarations plugin v0.1.0, casrai_nikolai_decl_rest_signup()).
- Each filed declaration stores the submitting account's user id as _submitted_by, while the public declarations feed returns only the declaring organisation's name, never the person (NIKOLAI Mapping Declarations plugin v0.1.0, casrai_nikolai_decl_rest_submit() and casrai_nikolai_decl_post_to_array()).
Counter-examples
Not to be confused with
- A CRediT contributor is not a Declaring Representative: CRediT pairs roles with the individual people who contributed to a research output, whereas a Declaring Representative acts for an organisation and is not named publicly.
- Passing domain verification does not by itself give someone authority to speak for an organisation: it shows only that the person controls an address at the organisation's domain, which is why every declaration still goes to editorial review before it can publish.
Related terms
Related AI safety terms
Terms defined under this element that are not NIKOLAI elements themselves, each as the cited document uses it. Every term is also listed in the AI safety glossary.
- Contributorship
- Contributorship is the principle, set out in the CRediT standard, that contributor roles describe the work each person did on a research output rather than who qualifies as an author; someone can hold a CRediT role without meeting authorship criteria.
- Source: ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022, CRediT, Contributor Roles Taxonomy, section 3.2
Source of record
Where this definition comes from
ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 (CRediT, Contributor Roles Taxonomy), NISO publication page, description of the standard
“The Contributor Roles Taxonomy’s 14 roles and best practices represent a simple but comprehensive system that enables the range and nature of contributions to scholarly published output to be captured in a transparent, consistent, and structured format.”
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 its 14 roles to the individual people who contributed to a research output (section 3.2.1: "A given contributor may have multiple roles."). NIKOLAI's Mapping Declarations do not do this: the declaring individual's contact name is collected at signup only to personalise the verification email and is never stored on the declaration record or shown publicly; only the organisation name is published. The submitting and reviewing accounts are stored internally as user ids, but no declaration role is shown publicly against a named individual.
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.
