I also strongly support the collocation of RDAP with other related conferences, like JCDL, OR and perhaps IASSIST. <div><br></div><div>I'd vote for the sooner the better, so we can all start benefitting from discovered commonalities and decreased fragmentation asap. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Let's do it for 2012, if it isn't too late to get our money back for previously-made plans. Now is the time to take advantage of heightened awareness and attention... all of us, and RDAP itself, will benefit greatly, I think!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Heather<div><br clear="all"><div>--</div>Heather Piwowar<div><br>DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad</div><div> studying research data sharing and reuse<br> remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Brian Westra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bdwestra@gmail.com">bdwestra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'll echo the other positive comments on complementary and co-location of
meetings. The number of meetings and interest groups on digital curation
has blossomed, and co-location and coordination can provide a more
compelling and integrative approach to the topic. As others have noted,
it can also help reduce travel costs (and for many of us with limited
budgets, it may elevate a set of meetings from "wish I could go" to "got
to go to that one").<br>
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Brian<br><font color="#888888">
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