Schemas, vocabularies and provenance behind every record

Every building block on this site is a record in one registry. Records are built from their sources and tagged with controlled vocabularies. Every record is validated against a JSON Schema before the site is built. A record that fails the schema stops the build; a term outside a vocabulary is dropped and reported below.

796 records, generated 2026-09-23E2ER orgsci-mvp@3b91f0e · RISE main@4c17bae

This page shows how records are described and tagged. The full data model, a star schema of every table including the analytics, is in the documentation.

How E2ER is built

Sources
The E2ER repository (templates, specialists, skills, the showcase run), the RISE skill catalogue (472 skills in total with E2ER's), the RISE project catalogue (55 external pipelines), and a file of example and planned records. scripts/extract-standard-data.py
Vocabularies and crosswalks
Declared terms are checked against the controlled vocabularies. Source terms with a known equivalent are mapped through a crosswalk or an alias.
Inference rules
Where a source declares nothing for a facet, published rules infer terms from the block's identifier and name. Inferred tags name their rule.
Validation
Every record is validated against block.schema.json; identifiers must be unique and relations must point at existing records. scripts/build-registry.mjs
Registry
One file, /catalog/blocks.json, read by every page and by machines.

Where the tags come from

Number of facet tags by provenance, across all records.

Facet	declared	mapped	inferred	default
Discipline	164	503	109	114
Method family	123	12	299	25
Design	26	1	55	0
Research stage	814	100	0	101

Most method and design tags are inferred today, because neither source catalogue declares those facets. Proposal sp-0005 would make them part of every description, so that inferred tags give way to declared ones.

Controlled vocabularies

Kind

E2ER

Standard Explorer §2, building blocks · JSON

template	Steps arranged into a complete research process.	14
agent	An AI model with one defined role and an output contract.	97
skill	A written skill that a specialist draws on.	472
pipeline	A research system built outside E2ER, indexed in the RISE project catalogue.	55
connector	What a run can reach outside the machine (an AI provider, a literature or data source, another pipeline, a place to publish), with what leaves the machine.	25
dataset	An open data package deposited in a public repository (Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse) with a DOI.	101
run	A published run: an exported evidence bundle with its manifest (e2er.json), listed in E2ER.	32

Status

E2ER

Standard Explorer, status labels · JSON

in-place	Exists and works today.	712
prototype	Exists in an early form or on a development branch.	27
planned	Scheduled on the roadmap. Nothing is built yet.	9
illustration	Invented to show how E2ER reads once others publish and reuse. Never counted in real figures.	48

Discipline

From RISE

RISE projects/VOCABULARY.md, Disciplinary scope · JSON

general	Domain-agnostic.	210
economics	Economics, finance, applied econometrics.	264
finance	Specifically empirical finance / asset pricing / market microstructure. (within economics)	35
information-systems	IS as an academic discipline (MIS Quarterly, ISR, etc.).	55
management	Management and organization research (e.g. Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science).	2
organization-science	How organizations, teams and work are structured and change; organization theory. (within management)	27
social-sciences	Sociology, political science, psychology, behavioral.	111
biomedical	Biology, medicine, clinical research.	8
computer-science	ML/CS research itself as the object.	105
mathematics	Pure and applied mathematics as a source of formal structure.	24
physics	Physics and physical systems thinking.	12
life-sciences	Biology, ecology, evolution and neuroscience beyond clinical research.	8
law	Legal scholarship and regulation.	6
humanities	Philosophy, history, linguistics and the arts.	23

Aliases: econometrics → economics

Method family

Proposed

Proposed in the E2ER description format, draft 0.1 (proposal sp-0005) · JSON

empirical	Estimation on observational or archival data.	117
experimental	Randomized experiments, including survey experiments.	9
qualitative	Interviews, case studies, coding of text and documents.	11
theoretical	Formal models, proofs, analytical derivations.	165
literature-review	Systematic and narrative reviews, synthesis of prior work.	42
replication	Reproducing or re-analysing published results.	86
review	Assessing a paper or study: referee reports, review panels, revision.	29

Design

Proposed

Proposed in the E2ER description format, draft 0.1 (proposal sp-0005) · JSON

difference-in-differences	Difference-in-differences	22
regression-discontinuity	Regression discontinuity	17
instrumental-variables	Instrumental variables	8
shift-share	Shift-share (within instrumental-variables)	5
event-study	Event study	12
panel-fixed-effects	Panel fixed effects	7
natural-experiment	Natural experiment	3
randomized-experiment	Randomized experiment	1
synthetic-control	Synthetic control	5
structural-model	Structural model	2

Research stage

From RISE

RISE projects/VOCABULARY.md, Pipeline stages · JSON

rq-formulation	Sharpening an underspecified prompt into a research question.	29
hypothesis-generation	Generating testable hypotheses.	112
literature-discovery	Finding relevant papers.	66
literature-synthesis	Summarizing, integrating, identifying gaps.	61
research-design	Choosing method, identification strategy, data plan.	54
data-acquisition	Fetching, scraping, requesting datasets.	146
data-analysis	Cleaning, exploratory + confirmatory analysis.	78
formal-modeling	Theoretical / mathematical models, simulations.	100
code-generation	Producing analysis or replication code.	44
paper-drafting	First-draft generation of paper sections.	121
revision-editing	Improving prose, structure, argumentation.	46
referee-simulation	Pre-submission peer-review simulation.	108
replication	Reproducing the results of a published paper end-to-end.	17
dissemination	Formatting for journals/preprints; submission packaging.	33

Aliases: peer-review → referee-simulation, drafting → paper-drafting

Record schema

block.schema.json · vocabulary.schema.json

Field	Content
id *	string
kind *	template \| agent \| skill \| pipeline \| run \| dataset \| connector
name *	string
version	string
summary	string
status *	in-place \| prototype \| planned \| illustration
source *	object
license	string
maintainers	array
facets *	object
relations	object
href	Page for this record on e2er.com, or an external URL.
sourceStatus	The status term the source catalogue uses, e.g. RISE's active / dormant / archived.
contributors	People and groups credited for this block, with CRediT roles (vocabularies/role.json).

* required

Inference rules

A rule fires when one of its phrases appears as whole words in the block's identifier, name or category.

Rule	Adds	Phrases
design-did	design: difference-in-differences	did, difference-in-differences, staggered, twfe
design-rd	design: regression-discontinuity	rdd, regression-discontinuity
design-iv	design: instrumental-variables	iv, iv-estimation, instruments, instrumental-variables, 2sls
design-shift-share	design: shift-share	shift-share, bartik
design-event-study	design: event-study	event-study
design-panel	design: panel-fixed-effects	panel-data, fixed-effects
design-natural-experiment	design: natural-experiment	natural-experiments, natural-experiment
design-synthetic-control	design: synthetic-control	synthetic-control
design-structural	design: structural-model	structural
method-empirical	method: empirical	econometrics, causal-inference, estimation, regression, empirical
method-empirical-from-design	method: empirical	any design tag
method-experimental	method: experimental	rct, randomized, field-experiment, pre-registration, preregistration, pre-analysis-plan
method-qualitative	method: qualitative	qualitative, interview-coding, thematic, grounded-theory, codebook, case-study
method-theoretical	method: theoretical	proof, proofs, proof-strategies, game-theory, theory, theorist, equilibrium, equilibria, econ-model, model-builder
method-literature	method: literature-review	literature, systematic-review, research-survey
method-replication	method: replication	replication, replicate, reproduction, replication-package
discipline-economics	discipline: economics	economist, economics, econ, econ-model, aer, qje, econcs
discipline-finance	discipline: finance	finance, yfinance, asset-pricing, market-microstructure, portfolio
discipline-is	discipline: information-systems	information-systems, misq, is-research
discipline-social	discipline: social-sciences	sociology, political-science, psychology
method-review	method: review	reviewer, reviewers, referee, referee-report, peer-review, review-panel, review-aggregation, revisor, paper-review, reviewing

Crosswalks

Source terms mapped onto the vocabularies. Tags produced here record the source term.

RISE skill category → stage (16)

ideation → hypothesis-generation

literature → literature-synthesis

design → research-design

data-handling → data-acquisition

analysis → data-analysis

modeling → formal-modeling

code-gen → code-generation

drafting → paper-drafting

editing → revision-editing

review → referee-simulation

revision → revision-editing

audit → referee-simulation

replication → replication

submission → dissemination

figures → paper-drafting

slides → dissemination

E2ER skill folder → stage (10)

causal-inference → research-design

econometrics → data-analysis

data → data-acquisition

latex → dissemination

math → formal-modeling

modeling → formal-modeling

reasoning → hypothesis-generation

review → referee-simulation

synthesis → literature-synthesis

writing → paper-drafting

RISE project focus → method (2)

replication → replication

literature → literature-review

Run estimator → design (8)

twfe_did → difference-in-differences

did → difference-in-differences

staggered_did → difference-in-differences

rdd → regression-discontinuity

iv → instrumental-variables

2sls → instrumental-variables

event_study → event-study

synthetic_control → synthetic-control

Specialist → stage (15)

idea_developer → rq-formulation

literature_scanner → literature-synthesis

data_architect → data-acquisition

identification_strategist → research-design

econometrics_specialist → research-design

data_analyst → data-analysis

theory_specialist → formal-modeling

paper_drafter → paper-drafting

section_writer → paper-drafting

abstract_writer → paper-drafting

latex_formatter → dissemination

self_attacker → referee-simulation

revisor → revision-editing

patch_revisor → revision-editing

replication_packager → replication

People and contributions

17 profiles (1 researcher, 2 project groups, 14 example researchers), validated against person.schema.json. Blocks name their contributors with CRediT roles. Uses, forks and reuse are derived from the manifests of 1 published study and 31 examples, validated against research-object.schema.json, and never entered by hand.

people.json · objects.json · reuse.json · Contributor profiles

Contributor role

CRediT, the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (Brand et al., 2015; ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022) · JSON

ConceptualizationData curationFormal analysisFunding acquisitionInvestigationMethodologyProject administrationResourcesSoftwareSupervisionValidationVisualizationWriting – original draftWriting – review & editing

Validation report

Record	Facet	Problem	Action
dataset:zenodo/5943125	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/21809547	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/14749672	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/20779343	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/4279799	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/19066186	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/21442219	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/22101633	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/18415112	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/8427920	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/18866143	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/18909882	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/20556728	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/21815567	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/22824986	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:dataverse/10-7910-dvn-odjgsd	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:dataverse/10-7910-dvn-kih7vj	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/8170048	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/21106885	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/22126619	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/19144431	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/19702177	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/12083613	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped
dataset:zenodo/12666535	discipline	dataset could not be placed in a discipline	dropped

Terms dropped here come from the source catalogues. They are fixed at the source, or added to a vocabulary through a proposal to change the standard.