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<div><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit, to be held April 19-21, 2017 in Seattle, WA, invites calls for proposals from managers, users, and generators of digital data from all sectors, including industry,
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<div><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">RDAP 2017 will focus on the theme “<i>Meeting challenges in the data world</i>.” </font></div>
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<div><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">RDAP will include panels on the topics of curating difficult data, data reusability, publisher perspectives on data, intellectual property issues surrounding data, and digital humanities data. <b>The planning committee is
seeking proposals for short presentations that complement these topics in an additional panel</b>.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">Potential proposal topics could include:</font></div>
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<li><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">Representing data (visually, etc…)</font></li><li><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">Privacy/ethics and data</font></li><li><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">Data as a commodity</font></li><li><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">Teaching data information literacy in curricula </font></li><li><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">The role of data curation in data science</font></li><li><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">Should data be treated as a collection?</font></li><li><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">What happens when physical objects are digitized - what kind of stewardship are the digital objects given compared to physical?</font></li></ul>
<div>Please submit proposals via <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_d_1R2Raoip3dqkgz6q4O5U5PZKhISDxYEMpHBzxRarEnAg&d=CwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=TkWm5-BITfd1ajk2ZCG2Yw&m=cBNkb_j37_zGluEaYX4hscJbgwCZwFbcGk1ZFZudZQY&s=vM9sL4eIZ-WsCtsKKGeQQ7o7LIDOcgZqF1RgzgoHLrg&e=">this
form</a> by November 20. </div>
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<div><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">Questions can be directed to the RDAP Program Chairs, Brianna Marshall (<a href="mailto:brianna.marshall@wisc.edu">brianna.marshall@wisc.edu</a>) and Yasmeen Shorish (<a href="mailto:shorisyl@jmu.edu">shorisyl@jmu.edu</a>)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Avenir,sans-serif">Thank you!</font></div>
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