Prof. Shawn Ross1, Natasha Simons2, Rob Leney3, Steffen Weidenhaus1
1Australian Research Data Commons, Sydney, Australia, 2Australian Research Data Commons, Brisbane, Australia, 3Australian Research Data Commons, Melbourne, Australia
Biography:
Prof. Shawn A Ross, FRSN, FSA (Ph.D. University of Washington, 2001) is a Professor of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, where he was also Director of eResearch (2017-2022). Shawn’s research interests include the history and archaeology of the ancient Balkans and the research applications of information technology. In 2022, he started an external secondment with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) as Product Manager for the Research Activity Identifier (RAiD). In 2024, this secondment expanded to include the role of Manager, National Information Infrastructure Products. Prof. Ross previously worked at UNSW Sydney and William Paterson University (New Jersey). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6492-9025
Natasha Simons is Director, National Coordination, for the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). She leads a large, talented team of Program Managers, Product Managers and Subject Matter Experts contributing to deliver ARDC’s strategic Research Data Commons initiatives. Based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Natasha has a high international profile particularly in the area of persistent identifiers. She was serves on the Australian ORCID Steering Committee, co-chair of PIDfest Prague and the Research Data Alliance National PID Strategies Interest Group. She plays a key role in the development of the Australian National PID Strategy and Roadmap. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0635-1998
Abstract:
This poster provides a technical overview with examples of the Research Activity Identifier (RAiD). RAiD is a persistent identifier for research projects, which links a project’s organisations, people, inputs and outputs and provides other key information about a research project. It is governed by ISO 23527:2022, and features prominently in the Australian National PID Strategy. RAiDs reduce the administrative burden of research project management, facilitate reporting of research outputs and impacts, and make research more transparent by exposing a project’s make-up and how it changes over time. Over the past two years, RAiD has been rebuilt and is now in production, both in Australia and overseas.
This poster will present a technical overview of RAiD with examples, including system architecture diagrams with an explanation of key design decisions, API and web application information, the metadata schema with controlled vocabularies (available via Research Vocabularies Australia), workflow diagrams for establishing a RAiD service at an organisation and creating or editing RAiDs, and example RAiDs, including project metadata and common reports that can be produced from it.