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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="color: black;">Welcome to the ASIS&T RDAP listserv!</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="color: black;">Some of you who are new to the listserv may or may not know of the Call for Proposals we have currently issued for the
<a href="http://www.asis.org/rdap/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Research Data Access and Preservation Summit</span></a> (RDAP13) on April 4-5, 2013 at the
<a href="http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bwiwf-baltimore-marriott-waterfront/" target="_blank">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Baltimore Marriott Waterfront</span></a> Baltimore, Maryland, USA.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style=""><span style="color: black;">We are currently accepting proposals (max. 300 words) for panel presentations, interactive posters, and lightning talks</span></b><span style="color: black;">.
Themes for RDAP13 were selected by this year’s planning committee with input from previous years’ attendees and RDAP community members.</span></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Institutional approaches/IRs and domain repositories</font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Data citation and altmetrics</font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Global scientific data infrastructure</font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Linked data and metadata</font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Data use and reuse–sharing and open data success stories</font></li></ul>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Potential areas of interest and topics based on the 5 themes above for RDAP13 talks include:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Archiving</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Commercial applications</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Data infrastructure</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Institutional repositories</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Licensing</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Metrics/Scientometrics/altmetrics</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Metadata</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Preservation</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Software</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Subject repositories</font></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="color: black;">If you or someone you know might be interested in submitting a proposal to the RDAP 13 planning committee, please keep
in mind the following deadlines:</span></font></p>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span><b>Submissions for
<font color="3366FF"><a href="http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP-13/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit" title="Panel Presentations" target="_blank">Panel Presentations</a>
</font>by November 21, 2012. [Accepted panels will be notified in early January.]</b></font></li><li><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span>Submissions for Interactive
<a href="http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP-13/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit" title="Call for Proposals, posters, lightning talks RDAP13 Research Data Access Preservation Summit" target="_blank">
Poster Session and Lightning Talks</a> are due December 15, 2012. [Posters and lightning panels will be notified in mid January.]</font></b></li></ul>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="color: black;">View previous RDAP presentations and posters on our
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/asist_org/tag/rdap12" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Slideshare</span></a> site. Links to previous Summits’ programs, videos and articles in the ASIS&T Bulletin are available on our
<a href="http://www.asis.org/rdap/rdap-resources/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">RDAP Resources</span></a> page.
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Keep up with RDAP news by joining our<a href="http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/rdap" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"> Listserv</span></a>, following us on<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/RDAPsummit" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">
Twitter</span></a> or visiting our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Research-Data-Access-Preservation-RDAP/125779237528763" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"> Facebook</span></a> page. For questions, contact
<a href="mailto:rdapinfo@asis.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">rdapinfo@asis.org</span></a>. We look forward to hearing from you!
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="color: black;">Thank you,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="color: black;">Stacy Konkiel
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="color: black;">Jordon Andrade</span></font></p>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="color: black;">RDAP 13 Chairs</span></font></div>
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