RAiD Integration

Introduction

RAiD (Research Activity Identifiers) provides persistent identifiers for research projects, enabling seamless reporting of research activities to funders and institutions.

RAiD identifiers can be associated to project groups, which allows RSpace to report research to RAiD when the research are exported to a repository, such as Dataverse. RAiD identifiers cannot be attached to other group types such as lab groups, or communities.

A RAiD identifier, once associated to a project group, cannot be re-associated to other project groups. Association only need to happen once; afterwards all exports will use the RAiD identifier on the project group automatically.

To starting reporting your research to RAiD, there are three steps:

1. Connect your account to a RAiD server
2. Associate a RAiD to a project group
3. Report research activity to RAiD when exporting items

For server administrators: Please see the Setting up RAiD Integration on how to set up RAiD server integration for you end users.

Connecting to a RAiD server

1. Click on the Apps page.
2. Locate the RAiD card and click on it.
   1. If RAiD is unavailable, please contact your system administrator.
3. If it hasn't been enabled already, click Enable to enable RAiD.
4. Click on Add, then click on the RAiD server you would like to connect to.
   1. If the RAiD server you would like to connect to is not on the list, please contact your system administrator.
5. On the newly-shown row of the server you've added, click on Connect and follow the instructions on-screen to log into the RAiD provider.
6. Setup is now complete.

Associate a RAiD to a project group

1. From the homepage, click on My RSpace -> My Profile.
2. Under Groups, find the project group you are in and click on the name to be taken to its settings page.
3. Under RAiD Connections, click on Add, then select the RAiD you would like to associate to the project group.
4. Click on Add to finish.

Disassociate a RAiD from a project group

1. From the homepage, click on My RSpace -> My Profile.
2. Under Groups, find the project group you are in and click on the name to be taken to its settings page.
3. Under RAiD Connections, click on Disassociate, then confirm the action to finish disassociating.

Report research activity to RAiD during an export

1. In the workspace, select the research activity you would like to export, then click Export to start the export wizard.
   1. NOTE: Reporting to RAiD is not supported for Sysadmins exporting a user's / project group's complete list of works from the System section.
2. Choose an export format. Only .zip files and RO-Crate can be used to report to RAiD.
3. Enable Export to a repository, then follow the other steps in the wizard.
4. On one of the pages in the wizard, the Report to RAiD page will come up, notifying you that a RAiD has been found for the export. Enable Report to RAiD to export the research activity to RAiD.
5. Follow the other steps and press Export to finish the wizard.
6. The research activity will now be reported to RAiD.