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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> CODATA-international [mailto:codata-international-bounces@lists.codata.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Simon CODATA<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 10, 2018 3:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> CODATA International <codata-international@lists.codata.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [CODATA-international] DEADLINE APPROACHING: Göttingen-CODATA Symposium on RDM in Universities, DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS, 15 JANUARY<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>DEADLINE APPROACHING: a final reminder of the deadline - 15 January - for abstract submissions to the Göttingen-CODATA Symposium 2018 on ‘the critical role of university research data management infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge’.</span></b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>The event will be a timely and major appraisal of progress in institutional endeavours to address the challenge of improving research data management for the benefit of science.</span></b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'> The symposium will feature invited speakers of international renown as well as papers from institutions from around the world. The themes are designed to ensure that the event will allow the community to appraise progress and share knowledge in key areas of institutional RDM activity: <a href="http://conference.codata.org/conference/2018_Goettingen_RDM/symposium-themes/" target="_blank">http://conference.codata.org/conference/2018_Goettingen_RDM/symposium-themes/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit them to a special collection of the Data Science Journal <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/" target="_blank">https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Topic of the Symposium: ‘The critical role of university RDM infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge’</span></b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>All over the world universities and libraries have started the task of developing research data services. Ideally such initiatives aim to result in a complete service portfolio covering the entire research lifecycle: support in writing proposals and data management plans, repository infrastructures for the storage of data, support in publishing data, assignment of persistent identifiers, lecturing in data management, etc. This broad scope means that such services are often seen as requiring a joint effort from from university, library, IT centre, faculties and other stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Nowhere in the world has such a complete support scenario been perfected. It is timely for actors in the various dimensions of such initiatives internationally to share their practical experiences, research and insights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Please note the range of themes listed below and at </span></b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><a href="http://conference.codata.org/conference/2018-Goettingen-RDM/symposium-themes/" target="_blank"><b>http://conference.codata.org/conference/2018-Goettingen-RDM/symposium-themes/</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Important Points About Abstract Submissions</span></b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Proposals for long papers should be 1200-2000 words.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Proposals for short papers should be 300-600 words.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>When submitting a proposal the author should choose the session corresponding to the theme for which the abstract is intended.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>The programme committee hopes to inform successful papers by mid-January 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Key Dates</span></b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2017</span></b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Announcement of accepted abstracts and outline programme: <b>late January 2018</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Symposium: 18-20 March 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Structure of the Symposium</span></b><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Sunday 18 March, icebreaker event and keynote in the evening 17.00-19.00<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Monday 19 March, full day of symposium, 09.00-18.00<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>Tuesday 20 March, half day of symposium, 09.00-14.00<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GillSans",serif'>For more information: <a href="http://www.codata.org/news/226/62/Call-for-Papers-for-Goettingen-CODATA-RDM-Symposium-2018-18-20-March-2018-Deadline-22-December-2017" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org/news/226/62/Call-for-Papers-for-Goettingen-CODATA-RDM-Symposium-2018-18-20-March-2018-Deadline-22-December-2017</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>___________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Call for Papers, <a href="http://conference.codata.org/2018_Goettingen_RDM/">Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium 2018</a></span></b><span style='color:black'>, Göttingen, Germany, 18-20 March 2018,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>deadline extended to 15 January 2018</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Call for </span></b><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/"><b>Session Proposals, SciDataCon 2018</b></a><b>, deadline 2 February 2018:</b> SciDataCon 2018 is an integrated part of <a href="http://www.codata.org/events/conferences/international-data-week-2018">International Data Week 2018</a>, 5-8 November 2018, Gaborone, Botswana.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>OECD and CODATA Report on<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>Business Models for Sustainable Research Data Repositories <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/302b12bb-en">http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/302b12bb-en</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>What has CODATA delivered recently? See the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2017</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(Second Edition) <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1034217">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1034217</a><br>___________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org">http://www.codata.org</a><br><br>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:simon@codata.org">simon@codata.org</a> | Twitter: @simonhodson99 | Skype: simonhodson99<br>Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59<br><br>CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>
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