Newsletter archive

The CASRAI newsletter is the editorial board's quarterly read-out. It compresses a release cycle's worth of working-group activity, dictionary churn, federation news, and perspectives into a single email that an over-committed research-administration professional can absorb in fifteen minutes.

What each issue covers

• A short editorial framing the cycle — what changed, what is contested, what to watch.
• Working-group highlights drawn from the formal working-group updates page.
• New and revised dictionary entries, grouped by domain, linkable to the canonical record.
• Federation news from NISO, euroCRIS, CODATA, and partner standards bodies.
• One or two perspectives pieces from the Perspectives stream.
• Open consultations and review windows worth your time.

Editorial line

The newsletter does not chase volume. Four issues per year is the ceiling, not a quota. Where there is nothing substantive to say, the issue is short. Where the cycle has surfaced a contested editorial decision, the issue is long. The model is closer to a journal editorial than a marketing campaign — the cadence and constraints documented in works such as the ICMJE recommendations on authorship and editorial responsibility.

Current status

The first issue ships in Q3 2026, after the v2026.1 dictionary release and the convening of the first cohort of working-group chairs. The archive on this page populates from that issue forward.

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