<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div>CODATA, through its Task Group on Data Citation, the CODATA US National Committee and the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information, is organising a one-day workshop on Data Citation: Developing Policy and Practice.<div><br></div><div>Workshop for data professionals focused on increasing awareness and encouraging policy and practice in support of data citation.<br><br>Hear perspectives on the value, use, and challenges of data citation from various stakeholders, including:<br><ul><li>Publishers</li><li>Editors</li><li>Data Managers</li><li>Federal Agencies, and</li><li>Authors</li></ul><div>The workshop is free of charge and takes place at the National Academies of Sciences, Washington DC on 12 July.</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Please register at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-citation-workshop-developing-policy-and-practice-registration-25734082333">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-citation-workshop-developing-policy-and-practice-registration-25734082333</a><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>This workshop continues an international series of events that has been organised in 2015 and 2016. Further information is available at <a href="http://www.codata.org/task-groups/data-citation-standards-and-practices">http://www.codata.org/task-groups/data-citation-standards-and-practices</a><br><div><br></div><div>The objective of the workshop is to promote the implementation of data citation principles in the research policy and funding communities. As such, it brings together at a national level, the relevant stakeholders include: government, funders, research performing institutions, research administrators, research librarians, researchers, learned societies, publishers, data archives, journal editors, etc. The overarching questions to be address are:<br><ol><li>What is the current and optimum policy environment for data citation?</li><li>What are current attitudes to data citation?</li><li>What infrastructure and motivations currently exists to support data citation?</li><li>What specific plans for implementation already exist or would be beneficial?</li></ol><div>With very best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div><br></div><div>Executive Director CODATA</div><div><br></div><div>REGISTER NOW FOR INTERNATIONAL DATA WEEK <a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/">http://www.internationaldataweek.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></body></html>