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CASRAI Dictionary v2026.1 — first release

The first stable release of the modernised CASRAI Dictionary ships today: 714 entries across 20 domains, CC-BY 4.0, machine-readable in seven formats.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

Published 18 May 2026· Last updated 4 Aug 2026· 1 minute read

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After two decades of standards stewardship, CASRAI ships its first modernised dictionary release: v2026.1 contains 714 entries across 20 thematic domains organised into five tracks (contribution, identifiers, data & methods, compliance, assessment). Every entry has a stable URI, Schema.org DefinedTerm markup, and JATS / JSON-LD encoding ready for any CRIS, repository, or publisher pipeline.

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72,264 indexed passages, and every answer cites the ones it drew on.