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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Early Bird registration for the Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2017 (RDAP17), April 19-21, Seattle, WA is closing soon!
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Be sure to take advantage of the lowest rate RDAP has ever been able to offer (only $190!) by registering by Friday, February 3rd:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.asis.org/rdap/registration-faq/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.asis.org/rdap/registration-faq/</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">RDAP17 will offer a diverse set of topics and presenters cutting across disciplines, institutions, and roles involved with the major challenges
 of providing access to and preserving research data. Panels, posters, lightning talks, institutional snapshots, and problem tables will provide greater opportunities for engagement with the community. The full program is available here:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.asis.org/rdap/program-2017/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.asis.org/rdap/program-2017/</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">In addition to the regular program, RDAP17 is hosting two incredibly affordable workshops on &#8220;A Friendly Introduction to GitHub&#8221; ($25) and
 &#8220;Building and Utilizing Rubrics for Assessment of Data Management Plans&#8221; (free):
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.asis.org/rdap/program-2017/#workshops"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.asis.org/rdap/program-2017/#workshops</span></a><span style="color:black">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Don&#8217;t forget to
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">register online</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"> for a room at the conference hotel, the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Renaissance Seattle,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"> by March 28th. We have secured a special discount rate of $189/night, single or double
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">We hope to see you in Seattle for the best RDAP yet!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Follow all of the RDAP17 news via these channels:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.asis.org/rdap/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.asis.org/rdap/</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><a href="https://twitter.com/RDAPsummit"><span style="color:#1155CC">@RDAPSummit</span></a><span style="color:black"> and #RDAP17<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><a href="http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/rdap"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/rdap</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Gill Sans MT&quot;,sans-serif">Andrew Johnson | Research Data Librarian/Assistant Professor | University Libraries | University of Colorado Boulder | 303-492-6102 | ORCID iD:
<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-6536"><span style="color:blue">0000-0002-7952-6536</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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