<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:-webkit-left"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="" color="#000000"><strong style="font-weight:400">T</strong>he 9th Annual VIVO Conference will be held June 6-8, 2018 in Durham, NC (<a href="http://vivoconference.org/" style="">conference web site</a>). The <a href="http://vivoconference.org/news/callforproposals" style="">Call for Proposals</a> is open until March 18.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:-webkit-left"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><strong><br></strong></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:-webkit-left"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><strong>Do you help make scholarly data open, found, and consumed? If so, we'd love to hear from you!</strong> The <a shape="rect" href="http://vivoconference.org/" alt="http://vivoconference.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:underline">VIVO conference</a> covers a broad range of topics surrounding research information systems. Particularly for VIVO Conference 2018, our hope is to widen the scope of presentations and target a broader audience of people working in this space. Some topics we plan to feature include:</font></div><ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:-webkit-left"><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Evaluating and choosing a research information system</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Sharing success stories and lessons learned during implementations</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Leveraging the VIVO open source community & Duraspace in your institution</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Measuring the impact of a scholarly work</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Taking your system to the next level (SEO, custom themes, ontology extensions)</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Supporting collaborative research & team science</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Building visualizations, social networks, and recommendation engines</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Incorporating new semantic technologies into VIVO</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Promoting open data and transparency in scholarship and scholarly data</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Sharing experiences with research systems other than VIVO</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Evaluating the impact of scholarship in the humanities and arts</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Marshalling skills and resources to implement and maintain a research information system</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Leveraging identity management systems and linking VIVOs</font></span></div></li><li><div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Enabling international systems and global scholarship</font></span></div></li></ul><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:-webkit-left"><strong><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a shape="rect">Submit your proposal today!</a></span><span> </span>Proposals must be received by Sunday, March 18th, 2018 at 12:00 AM EST.</font></strong></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" color="#000000"><br style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></font><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:-webkit-left"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:400">It's not too early to plan your trip to the conference.<span> </span></span><b><a shape="rect" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vivo-2018-conference-registration-42276312589" alt="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vivo-2018-conference-registration-42276312589" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:underline">Register early</a> and save</b>. And don't forget to<span style="font-weight:400"> </span><a shape="rect" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reservations.travelclick.com_99471-3FgroupID-3D1974424&d=DwMFJg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=-Q5vBxooWZe-k6BaJ1jmmVrq4-VBBa646_PAN8KMRjA&m=01sskOpc6NLbNo7zuqXTWa1ZnMvQ71sa9rWibWDzw54&s=NLbUi4XqrPMUK-8b9rAIjhRPWG-YwPMBvHRJnsQf_B8&e=" alt="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reservations.travelclick.com_99471-3FgroupID-3D1974424&d=DwMFJg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=-Q5vBxooWZe-k6BaJ1jmmVrq4-VBBa646_PAN8KMRjA&m=01sskOpc6NLbNo7zuqXTWa1ZnMvQ71sa9rWibWDzw54&s=NLbUi4XqrPMUK-8b9rAIjhRPWG-YwPMBvHRJnsQf_B8&e=" target="_blank" style="font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline">reserve your room</a><span style="font-weight:400"><span> </span>at the JB Duke Hotel with our special VIVO conference rate using Group ID 609406</span><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><br>
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