Ground Works Pilots CRediT-FAIR Framework for Non-Authorial Contributions
Ground Works staff has adapted the NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Contributor Roles Taxonomy, known as CRediT.
CRediT has gained traction in scholarly publishing as one way of acknowledging non-author contributions to research. However, we find that while this taxonomy speaks clearly to natural and social sciences, its roles and terms do not always apply well to arts research, arts-integrated research, or community-engaged research.
In our adaptation — the Contributor Roles Taxonomy for Arts Integrative Research (CRediT FAIR) — “research” is understood to include:
*creative practice and artistic production, i.e., arts research;
*collaboration at the intersection of the arts and other disciplines, i.e., arts-integrated research;
*and collaboration between a university researcher to both create knowledge and strengthen the well-being of the community, i.e., community-engaged research.
To do this, we have left some CRediT roles as-is, slightly edited the description of others, and added four entirely new roles. We are piloting CRediT-FAIR with Ground Works's second special edition, Creating Knowledge in Common, which explores university/community partnerships that center arts and design.
Check out Creating Knowledge in Common.