[Rdap] RDAP18 Planning Committee update

[Amy Neeser]

Hello RDAP community members,

We are excited to share an update about the RDAP 2018 planning committee’s
hard work to make RDAP 2018 <https://www.asist.org/events/rdap-summit/> a
success!

The call for proposals
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepr2zcgFS4Y7DbH19nmnbgkCM6Cb_QbV_hBkQ7JkjeG0aLFg/viewform>
is out and *due by *Friday, November 17. Also check out brief session
descriptions
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hPdqlDZtsN-noGw7nMTPndaM79LrJj4tWHu7KpjgG3k/edit>
with the proposal submission questions. There will be a forthcoming CFP for
the poster session and separate oral session (TBD).

We are also pleased to announce that we will feature a keynote speaker this
year. As we finalize those arrangements we’ll be sure to share more
information about that with the community.

Our subcommittees have also been hard at work:



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   The Sponsorship Team has some good news to share: we not only met our
   goal, we exceeded it! This means that attendees will see similar
   registration costs in 2018 as 2017. Affordability was one of this year’s
   goals and the RDAP 2018 Planning Committee would like to take a moment to
   publicly thank our sponsors for making it possible:


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   Partners: Purdue Univ. Libraries , Figshare, and Elsevier.
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   Advocates: DPN.
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   Contributors: Iowa State Univ. Library and The UW-Madison iSchool.
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   Sponsors: Univ. of Minnesota Libraries, DLF, Virginia Tech Libraries,
   PLOS, Northeastern Univ. Libraries, OCLC, University of Illinois Univ.
   Library (Champaign-Urbana), Northwestern Library, and ICPSR.



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   Save the date! The Webinar committee is pleased to announce its upcoming
   webinar on January 23 at 3pm EST. The assembled panel will explore how
   researchers use new technologies to manage their workflows, facilitate
   collaboration, and share aspects of their work. More information will be
   shared soon.



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   The Marketing committee has been helping spread the word about the call
   for proposals, the webinar, and our sponsors. Join the conversation on
   Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ResearchDataAccessPreservation/> or
   Twitter <https://twitter.com/rdapsummit?lang=en> with the hashtag
   #RDAP18.



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   This year, RDAP is pleased to announce a partnership with the Journal of
   eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB)
   <http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/>. Selected accepted RDAP
   proposals will be invited to submit their work for publication in JeSLIB, a
   peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes full-length papers,
   eScience in Action articles, reviews, and video articles. First time RDAP
   attendees are also encouraged to submit commentaries for publication in
   JeSLIB.



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   RDAP's Future Vision Task Force (FVTF) has been diligently working to
   review suggested organizations for possible future alignment or as models
   for standalone professional associations. The FVTF will present on these
   findings at RDAP 2018 and share a report including recommendations for
   RDAP's future direction and a suggested timeline for action, with community
   feedback encouraged.


RDAP 2018 registration will open up in early 2018. So get your presentation
proposals in and we’ll hope to see many of you in Chicago in late March!

Regards,

Amy Neeser and Jon Petters

RDAP18 co-Chairs

aneeser at berkeley.edu; jpetters at vt.edu
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