SDSC Leads Effort to Enhance National Research Data Management Ecosystem Infrastructure

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to lead the U.S. implementation of the Research Activity Identifier (RAiD) system. RAiD provides unique, persistent identifiers for research projects, simplifying administrative tasks, supporting FAIR data principles, and enhancing AI-readiness by facilitating the creation of knowledge graphs and linking persistent identifiers across projects. SDSC, in partnership with Lyrasis and other stakeholders, will develop a cloud service, web app, and API for issuing RAiDs, aligning the U.S. research infrastructure with international standards.

“SDSC will serve as the inaugural registration authority for the U.S. RAiD service, which will provide researchers, funders, institutions and other stakeholders with a way to assign globally unique, persistent resolvable identifiers (GUPRIs) with corresponding metadata for specific projects or portfolios,” said Christine Kirkpatrick, director of Research Data Services at SDSC  who is the project lead. “This is especially helpful for long-term discovery, resolution, access, sharing, reporting and impact assessment of the researchers, resources, funding and associated outputs of projects with multiple stakeholders over time.”

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