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.
1619 records, generated 2026-10-14e2er v0.16.1@d8fd8ab · 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
- SourcesThe e2er repository (templates, specialists, skills, the showcase run), the RISE skill catalogue (1101 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 crosswalksDeclared terms are checked against the controlled vocabularies. Source terms with a known equivalent are mapped through a crosswalk or an alias.
- Inference rulesWhere a source declares nothing for a facet, published rules infer terms from the block's identifier and name. Inferred tags name their rule.
- ValidationEvery record is validated against block.schema.json; identifiers must be unique and relations must point at existing records. scripts/build-registry.mjs
- RegistryOne 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 | 327 | 1159 | 109 | 134 |
| Method family | 132 | 12 | 331 | 155 |
| Design | 27 | 1 | 56 | 0 |
| Research stage | 952 | 652 | 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
e2erStandard Explorer §2, building blocks · JSON · the number counts records with the term, real and example together
| template | Steps arranged into a complete research process. | 22 |
| agent | An AI model with one defined role and an output contract. | 110 |
| skill | A written skill that a specialist draws on. | 1105 |
| 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. | 39 |
| dataset | An open data package deposited in a public repository (Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse) with a DOI. | 245 |
| run | A published run: an exported evidence bundle with its manifest (e2er.json), listed in e2er. | 43 |
Status
e2erStandard Explorer, status labels · JSON · the number counts records with the term, real and example together
| in-place | Exists and works today. | 1524 |
| prototype | Exists in an early form or on a development branch. | 40 |
| planned | Scheduled on the roadmap. Nothing is built yet. | 8 |
| illustration | Invented to show how e2er reads once others publish and reuse. Never counted in real figures. | 47 |
Discipline
From RISERISE projects/VOCABULARY.md, Disciplinary scope · JSON · the number counts records with the term, real and example together
| general | Domain-agnostic. | 248 |
| economics | Economics, finance, applied econometrics. | 354 |
| finance | Specifically empirical finance / asset pricing / market microstructure. (within economics) | 36 |
| 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. | 183 |
| biomedical | Biology, medicine, clinical research. | 625 |
| computer-science | ML/CS research itself as the object. | 106 |
| mathematics | Pure and applied mathematics as a source of formal structure. | 24 |
| physics | Physics and physical systems thinking. | 14 |
| life-sciences | Biology, ecology, evolution and neuroscience beyond clinical research. | 8 |
| law | Legal scholarship and regulation. | 22 |
| humanities | Philosophy, history, linguistics and the arts. | 25 |
Aliases: econometrics → economics
Method family
ProposedProposed in the e2er description format, draft 0.1 (proposal sp-0005) · JSON · the number counts records with the term, real and example together
| empirical | Estimation on observational or archival data. | 261 |
| experimental | Randomized experiments, including survey experiments. | 11 |
| 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. | 56 |
| replication | Reproducing or re-analysing published results. | 92 |
| review | Assessing a paper or study: referee reports, review panels, revision. | 34 |
Design
ProposedProposed in the e2er description format, draft 0.1 (proposal sp-0005) · JSON · the number counts records with the term, real and example together
| difference-in-differences | Difference-in-differences | 24 |
| 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 RISERISE projects/VOCABULARY.md, Pipeline stages · JSON · the number counts records with the term, real and example together
| rq-formulation | Sharpening an underspecified prompt into a research question. | 31 |
| hypothesis-generation | Generating testable hypotheses. | 112 |
| literature-discovery | Finding relevant papers. | 67 |
| literature-synthesis | Summarizing, integrating, identifying gaps. | 206 |
| research-design | Choosing method, identification strategy, data plan. | 126 |
| data-acquisition | Fetching, scraping, requesting datasets. | 313 |
| data-analysis | Cleaning, exploratory + confirmatory analysis. | 231 |
| formal-modeling | Theoretical / mathematical models, simulations. | 100 |
| code-generation | Producing analysis or replication code. | 44 |
| paper-drafting | First-draft generation of paper sections. | 246 |
| revision-editing | Improving prose, structure, argumentation. | 54 |
| referee-simulation | Pre-submission peer-review simulation. | 118 |
| replication | Reproducing the results of a published paper end-to-end. | 24 |
| 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 (18)
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
field_boundary_designer → literature-discovery
field_lane_mapper → literature-synthesis
field_review_writer → paper-drafting
People and contributions
19 profiles (3 researchers, 2 project groups, 14 example researchers), validated against person.schema.json. Blocks name their authors with CRediT roles. Uses, forks and reuse are derived from the manifests of 12 published studies and 31 examples, validated against research-object.schema.json, and never entered by hand.
Author 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 | Term | Problem | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| template:descriptive-study | method | descriptive | not in vocabulary | dropped |
| template:field-map | method | bibliometric | not in vocabulary | dropped |
| template:spatial-analysis | method | spatial analysis | not in vocabulary | dropped |
| template:text-analysis | method | text analysis | not in vocabulary | dropped |
| template:time-series-forecasting | method | time series | not in vocabulary | dropped |
| 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.