The CASRAI Bulletin

What you get

The Bulletin is the only mailing CASRAI sends. It is an editorial digest, not a marketing channel — there is no upsell, no event-promotion cadence, no partner-sponsored content. Each issue is approximately a six-minute read and is structured around four standing sections.

The editor letter frames the month in 200 to 400 words: what changed, what is about to change, what we wanted you to notice that the changelog alone would not surface. The dictionary changelog lists new entries, revised entries, deprecations and rename events, each with a permalink to the term page where you can read the full editorial history. The perspective is a single short essay from a working-group chair, an editorial-board member, or a representative of a standards organisation CASRAI interoperates with — usually 600 to 1,000 words on something the contributor thinks the field is getting wrong, or getting right, or about to face. The standards news section covers what NISO, euroCRIS, CODATA and the adjacent standards bodies have published since the previous issue, with light editorial commentary where it helps you decide whether the news matters to your work.

Occasionally — perhaps three times a year — the Bulletin will carry a fifth section flagging a public-comment window on a dictionary release candidate or an externally maintained specification. These windows have hard deadlines and are otherwise easy to miss, so we surface them on the Bulletin’s critical path rather than expecting subscribers to watch the working-group pages.

Privacy posture

Your email address is stored only in the CASRAI WordPress database. It is not exported to a third-party email-service provider, not enriched against a marketing data platform, and not shared with external organisations or sponsors under any circumstance. The full list of subscribers is visible only to the editorial team and the system administrator.

The Bulletin email itself carries no tracking pixels. There is no open-tracking, no per-link click-tracking on the editorial body, and no third-party analytics script in the HTML. Editorial links point directly to casrai.org or to the referenced external resource — never through a redirector. The unsubscribe link at the foot of every issue is unauthenticated and one-click; following it removes your address with no further confirmation step.

Subscription uses double opt-in: when you submit the form, we send a confirmation email containing a signed link. Your address is recorded as active only after you follow that link. If you do not confirm within 24 hours, the pending entry is removed automatically and we do not retain the address. This satisfies the GDPR lawful-basis test for consent and the equivalent provisions of UK GDPR, ePrivacy, and CAN-SPAM. Our retention period after unsubscribe is 30 days (sufficient to honour duplicate-suppression for re-signup attempts), after which the row is purged.

When you might not want this

If you only care about a single domain of the dictionary, the site-wide RSS feed or the per-domain feeds linked from each domain page will be lower-noise than the Bulletin. If you are tracking a specific working group, the working-group page carries its own minute summary feed. The Bulletin is a generalist digest — it is not the right channel for someone who wants only the AI-disclosure changelog.