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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi RDAP community,
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Recently, the RDAP Executive Board was approached by the coordinators of the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ndicannual.com/mission/"><span style="color:#1155CC">National Data Integrity Conference (NDIC)</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
with a request for RDAP to include NDIC’s scope and community in the annual RDAP summit, representing an informal merger.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Once a Colorado State University conference focused on Research Data and Data Integrity, NDIC is no longer active yet the coordinators still believe in the
mission and relevance of the material</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">. The coordinators are part of the RDAP community and have long identified the overlap between the two conferences. After discussions with
the coordinators, RDAP feels that it is within our scope to incorporate some of the themes previously represented at NDIC (data quality, reproducible research, implicit bias, and ethical implications of data collection), while revisioned towards the RDAP audience
and our practitioner point of view. Our hope is that by involving the coordinators from NDIC in our conference planning committee, we will include a focus of data integrity into RDAP’s programming, expand our community, and learn something new!
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">As always, we are very interested in the community’s thoughts on this direction. If you would like to provide feedback as to why you do or
do not support this effort, please use this </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://cornell.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6tfFQ2dyKBpH9Hf"><span style="color:#1155CC">form</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
to submit your thoughts by </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">Friday August 3, 2018</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><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:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">In other news, our
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://rdapassociation.org/"><span style="color:#1155CC">new RDAP website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> is up (and
in need of new material and revisions- we’re on it!) . We will have more information to share soon but in the meantime, please always send questions that you may have to
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:RDAPBoard@gmail.com"><span style="color:#1155CC">RDAPBoard@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> .
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Be well RDAP’ers!
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Erica Johns</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">President, RDAP Executive Board</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Andalus",serif;color:#2F5496">Erica M. Johns<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus",serif;color:#2F5496">Research Data & Environmental Sciences Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://data.research.cornell.edu/"><span style="color:#2F5496">http://data.research.cornell.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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