Attribution & the research record

Research data doesn’t stand alone: it’s funded by grants, produced by people, and cited in publications. Dataerai maintains a research-record graph that connects your data to this context, so credit, funding, and outputs travel with the data.

What’s in the research record

Grants and funding agencies — the awards and funders behind the work.
Works — scholarly publications, aligned with open scholarly metadata (OpenAlex), along with their authors, institutions, sources, and topics.
People — canonical researcher identities, including identifiers like ORCID.

Together these let you answer questions like which grant funded this data? and which publications came out of it? — and they complement the provenance you capture between assets.

Find grants

On the search page, open the Search in selector (alongside Assets, Collections, Projects, People, and Publications) and choose Grants, then enter your search term. Dataerai finds awards by title, funder, award number, keyword, or metadata term — searching both grants already in your organization and grant records discovered from OpenAlex.

Search scope selector — Choose Grants in the search scope selector to search funding.

The results table shows where each grant came from:

Badge	Meaning
Local	The grant already exists in Dataerai.
Web	The grant was discovered from OpenAlex publication metadata.
Local · also on web	A Dataerai grant also matched an OpenAlex grant record.

Click a result to open the grant sidebar. The sidebar shows the funder, award ID, grant key, funding details, fiscal year, description, tags, and metadata. Long grant details scroll inside the right pane, so the results table stays visible while you review the grant.

Grants search results — Grants results show Local, Web, and Local · also on web origins, with Import on web-only rows.

Open a grant information page

For a Local or Local · also on web result, click the grant title to open the full grant information page. The page gives the award a stable URL that you can share with collaborators who have access to the same Dataerai environment. The information page shows the award amount, award period, funded-output count, funder, identifiers, contact PI, agency administration fields, classification, terms, and external award links. When the grant was imported from OpenAlex, the page also shows the OpenAlex award and funder links and lets you inspect the stored OpenAlex award payload.

Grant detail page — A grant’s detail page: award amount and period, funder, identifiers, abstract, and people.

Web results need to be imported before they have a Dataerai grant information page. Use Import in the sidebar first, then open the local grant from the result title. Below the award details, the grant information page shows the grant’s connections — the same way assets show their relationships — in three panels:

Investigators — the grant’s principal and co-investigators, each tagged with their role. A name links to that person’s detail page when they’re in your workspace.
Funded works — the publications the grant funded, most-cited first, with a total count. Each row opens the work’s detail page.
Related grants — other grants that funded the same publications, ranked by how many outputs they share. Each row opens that grant’s page.

Each panel shows a sample with the total count, and an empty state when the grant has no links yet — for example, a grant imported before its outputs were available; re-importing fills them in.

Import a grant

For a Web result, click Import to add the grant to Dataerai. The Import button appears both inline on the result row and in the grant sidebar. Import creates or reuses the funding agency and grant record, and pulls in the award’s full details from OpenAlex — the real title, award amount, award dates, abstract, and funder information — so the imported record is richer than the search row that produced it. After import, the same result appears as Local · also on web because the award is now in your organization and still linked to the OpenAlex record. Import doesn’t just store the award — it connects it. Alongside the funder and grant record, Dataerai brings in the grant’s funded publications and, through them, the works’ authors and institutions, plus the grant’s investigators — so an imported grant arrives linked to the rest of the research graph rather than as a standalone record. Dataerai imports the grant’s directly-funded works (one hop — it doesn’t keep crawling each publication’s own references); a grant with many outputs imports the first batch immediately and the rest in the background. OpenAlex does not expose a grants search endpoint. Dataerai discovers OpenAlex grant records from matching publications, then imports the grant as a local record — enriched from OpenAlex’s award entity — so you can search it directly later.

Manage grants with the API

You can also manage grants and funding agencies through the Dataerai API. The relevant endpoints are:

Endpoint	What it does
`GET/POST /api/funding-agencies/`	List or create the funders behind awards.
`GET/PATCH/DELETE /api/funding-agencies/{id}/`	Read, update, or remove a funding agency.
`GET/POST /api/grants/`	List or create grants (award title, funder, dates, amount, awardee organizations, keywords).
`GET/PATCH/DELETE /api/grants/{id}/`	Read, update, or remove a grant.
`GET /api/grants/{id}/detail/`	The grant’s relationship panels — funded works, investigators, and related grants.
`GET /api/grants/search/`	Search local grants and OpenAlex grant records together.
`GET /api/grants/preview/`	Preview the grant that would be imported from an OpenAlex result.
`POST /api/grants/imports/`	Import an OpenAlex grant into Dataerai.

A typical flow is to create the funding agency, then the grant that references it:

# Create a grant (authenticate as shown in the API reference)
curl -X POST "$DATAERAI_SERVER/api/grants/" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "title": "Coastal sediment dynamics",
    "funding_agency": "<funding-agency-id>",
    "start_date": "2024-01-01",
    "end_date": "2026-12-31"
  }'

See Authentication for how to obtain a token, and the API reference for the full field list. The broader scholarly graph — works, people, institutions, and topics — is maintained as connected reference data that links your research to its published context.

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​What’s in the research record

​Find grants

​Open a grant information page

​Funded works, investigators, and related grants

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​Manage grants with the API

​Next steps

Provenance & relationships

API reference

What’s in the research record

Find grants

Open a grant information page

Funded works, investigators, and related grants

Import a grant

Manage grants with the API

Next steps