Time-saving research project identification,
tracking and sharing

RAiD is designed to address a key challenge faced by researchers, research administrators, funders, publishers, and others in the research ecosystem—maintaining consistent and up-to-date information on projects throughout the research lifecycle.

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  • Reliable information management

    Record research project or activity information under one unique RAiD name for easy discovery, updating and sharing with others

  • Seamless backend integration and interoperability

    Combine all your research information into one accessible and standardised RAiD metadata record from any device

  • Strategic monitoring

    Track your project's inputs and outputs to gain strategic insight into your project’s outcomes or impact at any time

RAiD’s value

RAiD is a game-changer for the global research community

Projects and activities can now be uniquely identified and tracked across the research lifecycle

RAiDs allow project information to be viewed, shared and linked with other RAiD projects globally

RAiD can be integrated into an organisation’s existing software platforms to eliminate double-entry of information

Who should use RAiD?

RAiD is designed for international use in the public domain

  • Research infrastructure organisations

    organisations that provide imaging, analytical and supercomputing facilities for researchers

  • Stakeholder organisations

    Stakeholder organisations

    including organisations that fund and publish research publications

  • Research organisations, PID service providers and researchers

    organisations wishing to identify and track project inputs and outputs (e.g. contributors, collaborators, data sets, samples, instruments, tools, grants, events, grey literature, journal publications, and all associated PIDs)

  • Researchers

    those wishing to share information about their subproject or research activity with others in the global research community

  • Scholars

    those wishing to give access to their virtual research environments (VREs) or working data

Why get a RAiD?

RAiD helps you and your research organisation spend more time on doing research, with less time required on managing or administering it.  Others can also follow your career interests and find out what publications you contributed to for a particular project.

FAIR, equitable and sustainable access

RAiD is based on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable) scientific data principles.

FAIR RAiD aid for the FAIRCORE4EOSC project

RAiD is being developed to automatically prepare and submit research service applications on behalf of European researchers

The FAIRCORE4EOSC project in Europe is developing an online marketplace for European researchers and collaborators to easily select multiple research services from.  These services require an application that grant a researcher access to (e.g.) information stored in a supercomputer or data centre.

RAiD is being used to:

  1. Store each European project’s information as RAiD project metadata

  2. Provide RAiD metadata access after a research service application has been selected from FAIRCORE4EOSC’s online marketplace

  3. Simultaneously prepare and submit the selected research service applications on behalf of a researcher – via FAIRCORE4EOSC’s marketplace system framework

  4. Provide automatic notification of each research service’s approval to the researcher, if no other exceptions apply.   


The result?  A researcher can receive access notifications from multiple research services within minutes, rather than waiting weeks or months for any reply.

RAiD benefits

Get time-saving, stable and persistent RAiDs for your research projects or activitiesI

Integration with existing data management systems allows RAiD to minimise time lost on administrative effort and double-data entry when producing reports, preparing and submitting research service applications, or strategically analysing project impacts and outcomes.

  • Empower and encourage your research organisation to get RAiD

  • Customise and control the information your research organisation would like kept and shared for a RAiD project or activity

  • Accurately store and view RAiD metadata information whenever needed at any stage of a project or activity, including after its closure

  • Track future funding requirements, project outcomes and changes made over time for a RAiD project or activity

  • Fast-track project administration and save considerable research time and money

Why RAiD is worth investing in


The ARDC is currently receiving heightened international interest from research organisations keen to learn how they can adopt RAiD into their research activities, or become either a RAiD Registration Agency or a service point.  

Worthwhile reasons

  • A high global interest in and support of RAiD is increasing across the global research community, including North America, Oceania, Europe and South America

  • RAiD has been developed as a needed PID for research projects and activities, via a RAiD system that is underpinned by ISO 23527 and DOIs that are minted by DataCite.

  • The customised use of open RAiD metadata is a game-changer, incl. the automatic compiling and submitting of multiple research applications, submissions and grants all at the same time

  • Intelligent analysis of RAiD metadata will indicate project outcomes and support strategic activities, such as planning, reporting, funding and developing new research hypotheses.

Key issues that
RAiD solves

  • Not knowing where research data has originated from or what it is associated to

  • Keeping track of project activities for oversight and visibility, as funding, tasks and their contributors frequently change over time

  • Minimising errors in forgotten, lost, hard-to-fine or superseded project information by providing a single, reliable place of storage.

Want to know more? 

Go to our RAiD Documentation site and then contact us with your RAiD questions.

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