Piloting the use of RAiD in research.fi

Abstract

Research.fi is a national service for collecting, integrating and disseminating information on research conducted in Finland. Research.fi takes over the content of a legacy repository on research projects from 'Projectnet'. Projectnet was a service that collected information about research projects focusing on natural resources from six Finnish research organizations. Research.fi will pilot the Research Activity identifier (RAiD) as part of an EU-funded project FAIRCORE4EOSC. RAiD provides persistent, unique and resolvable information for research projects. The aim of piloting RAiD is first of all to gain insights on how this type of identifier could work in the context of Research.fi. Some of the main challenges in adopting RAiD on a national level will be charted, and at the same time possible process improvements to make it more palatable to local stakeholders will be considered. Using legacy data that has originally been harvested to cater the needs of a different service in piloting RAiD does cause some challenges. To ensure optimal resolution of challenges faced, the Research.fi works in collaboration with the RAiD registration authority, ARDC, and the in-progress RAiD Registration Agency for Europe at SURF. The team doing the work described in the paper is confident that sharing the challenges they face as well as the solutions they find are of interest to the wider CRIS community.