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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 29, 2017 11:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lazarus Matizirofa <lazarus.matizirofa@nrf.ac.za><br>
<b>Subject:</b> EUDAT conference "Putting the EOSC into practice", 23-25 January 2018: registration & call for posters/demos are open!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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NEWS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1031" src="http://newsletter.eudat.eu/Repository/images/EUDAT-logo_PuttingEOSC_300.png"></span></i></b><em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Join
the EUDAT conference 2018</span></b></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br>
After the success of the previous EUDAT conference in Amsterdam which brought together more than 300 participants, we are ready to kick-off 2018 with the EUDAT conference
<em><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">"<a href="https://eudat.eu/events/conferences/save-the-date-eudat-conference-putting-the-eosc-vision-into-practice">Putting the EOSC vision into practice</a>".
</span></b></em>The conference takes place in the stunning location of Porto, Portugal from the 23rd to the 25th of January 2018.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Why join?</span></strong><br>
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the contribution of EUDAT as well as other infrastructures to these two initiatives;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Showcase the latest trends in data infrastructure and data management solutions for research;</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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<strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Inform about the concrete opportunities offered by the newly established EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI)</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
to the service providers and research communities.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Additionally, it will give you the opportunity to showcase your work to an audience of community decision-makers and data managers, scientists and research communities,
policy-makers, e-Infrastructure projects, research infrastructures and ESFRI projects during a
<a href="https://eudat.eu/eudat-conference-2018-call-for-posters-demos"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">poster & demo session (Submissions open until 30 November 2017).</span></strong></a><br>
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Finally, it will host a <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">set of co-located workshops</span></strong> covering different topics and disciplines to complement the main programme. The co-located workshops will be announced soon!<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Curious about the programme?</span></strong>
<a href="https://eudat.eu/eudat-conference-2018-programme"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A sneak preview is available here</span></strong></a>. More information will be available in the upcoming weeks.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">What you can do now? </span>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Enjoy our newsletter, mark the dates in your agenda and start
<a href="https://eudat.eu/eudat-conference-2018-venue-accommodation">planning your trip to Porto</a>. Registration</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">is open: make sure you register by 17 November 2017 to benefit from the early-bird rate (€ 80)!
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://eudat.eu/news/eudat-launches-the-generic-execution-framework">Move the tools not the data to avoid costly data transfers: EUDAT</a><a href="https://eudat.eu/news/eudat-launches-the-generic-execution-framework">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The EUDAT team is pleased to announce the release of the beta version of the Generic Execution Framework (GEF). The trend towards larger data volumes exacerbates the problem
of costly and time consuming data transfers to off-site data processing locations. The EUDAT GEF enables you to deploy your containerised scientific tools to computational resources in close proximity to the input data in order to minimise overall data transfer
costs for your research community. The EUDAT GEF enables execution of containerized software tools on data stored in the EUDAT...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Access to marine data is of vital importance for marine research and a key issue for various studies, from the climate change prediction to off shore engineering. SeaDataCloud
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a strategic and technical cooperation with the EUDAT consortium, with which it will collaborate to build upon the state of the art in ICT and e-infrastructures for data, computing and networking. EUDAT participates...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://newsletter.eudat.eu/Newsletter.ashx?action=showcontent&id=1010&idnewsletter=90&guid=3751&source=1&lang=en">Did you miss the "Organising high quality Research Data Management Services for Open
Science" workshop at the </a><a href="http://newsletter.eudat.eu/Newsletter.ashx?action=showcontent&id=1010&idnewsletter=90&guid=3751&source=1&lang=en">Open Science FAIR 2017? We have it covered for you
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Libraries and librarians are playing a pivotal role in enabling services and nurturing practices in support of a more open and transparent approach to research. In this context,
libraries and librarians are increasingly called up on to help managing the ever increasing quantities of data produced by research groups and communities. This workshop aimed at discussing how RDA, EUDAT and LIBER are collaborating to provide high-quality
data management services and practices to researchers...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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launch of a new certification organization: CoreTrustSeal. The CoreTrustSeal Board offers all interested data repositories a core-level certification based on the DSA–WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements catalogue and procedures. CoreTrustSeal
Data Repository certification replaces the DSA certification and the WDS certification of Regular Members. The CoreTrustSeal is a community-based nonprofit organization promoting sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructures...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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