<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks, Steve. &nbsp;Gwen also kindly alerted me to this.<div><br></div><div>Yes, we should certainly follow-up. &nbsp;I\u2019ll certainly have a look at the thread and I encourage colleagues to do so.</div><div><br></div><div>CODATA and ESIP have an MoU and are mutual members, so it might be useful also to follow up at an organisational level.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know your thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div>S.</div><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 21 Jul 2026, at 16:25, Stephen Richard &lt;smrtucson@gmail.com&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">There's been some activity from the ESIP community looking at alignment with CDIF.&nbsp; See discussion at<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/285">https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/285</a>.&nbsp; It would be great to get input from others in the CDIF WG</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Steve</div><div id="Signature" class="elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof">Stephen M. Richard</div><div class="elementToProof">US Geoscience Information Network (USGIN)</div><div class="elementToProof"><a href="mailto:smrTucson@gmail.com">smrTucson@gmail.com</a></div><div class="elementToProof">520-869-8545</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>