Who generates RAiD?
A RAiD is created through a recognized RAiD service provider, i.e., a registration agency.
Who can create a RAiD and who will maintain it?
Any registered user of the RAiD service with an assigned role of Registration Agency Operator, Service Point Administrator, or Service Point User.
What is the difference between a research activity, a research project, and a grant?
A research project is a time-bound activity with a defined objective, primarily involving the acquisition of new knowledge and the verification of hypotheses. A grant is a specific financial support that a project may receive during its lifecycle. Projects can produce grant-supported outputs many years after the funding period has ended.
Projects evolve over time as their inputs (organizations, instruments, personnel) change.
At which stage of a project is it appropriate to create a RAiD?
The intentionally minimal metadata requirements allow a RAiD to be generated for a project as early as the initial idea or conceptual stage. However, a RAiD identifier can be created at any phase of the research lifecycle.
What information is required to create a RAiD?
The minimum requirement consists of a title, the project start year, and at least one person participating in the project (ORCID iD).
Where is RAiD data stored?
RAiD metadata is primarily stored with the registration agency. The central authority of the system does not store the metadata.
A registration agency may choose to configure regular exports of metadata to the Zenodo repository. (link to the example of the Australian archive)
A portion of the metadata is shared with DataCite for the purpose of generating the RAiD
What is the organizational structure of the RAiD service?
The global registration authority is the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
Locally, organizations can become RAiD Registration Agencies. A registration agency provides services to a specific scope of entities, which may be defined thematically, geographically, or otherwise. Registration agencies enter into agreements with organizations wishing to establish Service Points. These Service Points then provide support to RAiD end-users.