The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) is an international non-profit organization that focuses on reducing administrative burdens and improving reporting outcomes in research through standardization of information management.
[2] CASRAI develops and maintains standard information agreements, which define the necessary data elements for key business processes in the research lifecycle and provide definitions for related terms.
[3] These standardized infrastructures developed by CASRAI can be integrated into local software systems and processes to facilitate consistent and comparable sharing of research information across the lifecycle.
[4] CRediT provides a standardized method for recognizing diverse contributions to scholarly published work, defining 14 distinct roles including conceptualization, methodology, and data curation.
It ensures compliance with CRediT standards, supports XML and PDF output formats, and integrates seamlessly with existing journal workflows.