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<dl class="gmail-m_-3671228457782790251gmail-date" style="font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:10px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;clear:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:14.08px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;float:left;display:block;color:rgb(2,64,115);width:200px">Date:</dt><dd style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.8px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;float:left;width:415px">01 May 2018 - 03 May 2018</dd></dl><dl class="gmail-m_-3671228457782790251gmail-description" style="font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;clear:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:14.08px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;float:left;display:block;color:rgb(2,64,115);width:200px">Description:</dt><dd style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.8px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;float:left;width:415px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.8px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">We live in a world in which it is increasingly easy to collect enormous amounts of data, in which research frequently spans physical, chemical, and biological sciences. Despite these advances, many scientific research results in recent years have proven to be difficult to reproduce.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.8px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from the measurement and wider research communities to understand the issues and to explore how good measurement practice and principles can foster confidence in research findings, including how we can tackle the challenge posed by increasing data volumes in both industry and research. It is important to recognise that there is no process that can entirely eliminate measurement uncertainty, but a good measurement process can lead to an appropriate interpretation of the data. Collecting and reporting the control experiments and systems and the details of and computational process will add confidence to results, improve the efficiency of follow-up studies, and establish a more reasonable basis for conclusions. Such practices can also add to our knowledge in ways that simply reproducing an experiment cannot.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.8px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The international network of National Metrology Institutes (NMIs), coordinated by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau International des Poids et Measures, BIPM), develops novel measurement methods, conducts cross-validation studies, and provides expertise in experiment design and uncertainty analysis and characterisation. By bringing together practitioners from the metrology community with discipline scientists and representatives of scholarly publishers, we hope to establish better awareness and adoption of best practices in measurement.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.8px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The workshop organisers intend to produce a report describing the actions the network of NMIs might take moving forward. In this way, we may mitigate the 'reproducibility crisis' and increase confidence in evidence-based decision-making.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.8px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Invited speakers:</p><ul style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.8px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:disc"><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit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