<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-7cecd772-7fff-a36a-fd4b-11218545f16f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" style="" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear RDM colleagues:</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am writing to request your participation in a “</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Researcher Engagement with data management: what works?” </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">survey of</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the </span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Research Data Alliance</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And to ask you to share my email with contacts in your institution or your networks/country so we can collect as many examples as possible.</span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our project aims to collect use case studies from different organisations and institutions around the globe on how to engage researchers with research data management. The collected case studies will be published on the RDA website and as an open textbook. We believe we can learn from each other’s experience and hope to create a useful resource for organisations and institutions which are looking to increase their engagement with their research communities, as explained in </span><a href="https://openworking.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/researcher-engagement-with-data-management-what-works/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">our blog post</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Please click on the link below to get started.</b> The survey takes an average of 20 minutes to be completed. We look forward to reading your stories, preferably before February 3, 2019! </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Take the survey:</span></div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><a href="https://www.1ka.si/a/193487" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.1ka.si/a/193487</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span></div></font><p></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you have any questions about this survey, or while completing the survey, please don’t hesitate to contact me. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thank you in advance for your input.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Yan Wang</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" style="" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">on behalf of the RDA Researcher Engagement Project</font></span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">Dr.ir. Yan Wang<br></font><div><font color="#666666" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment | Data Steward | Tue. - Fri. </font></div><div><div><font color="#666666" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management | Policy Analysis section | HumTechLab | Information Management Researcher | Mon.</font></div><div><div><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="1" style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:8pt"><font color="#666666" style="font-weight:bold">T</font><font color="#00ffff" style="font-weight:bold">U</font><font color="#666666"> Delft | Mobile: +31 6 1818 9198 | Skype: yan.wang124 | Twitter: </font></span></font><span dir="ltr" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;color:rgb(101,119,134);font-size:14px;padding-right:5px;outline:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;direction:ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/yan_wang" rel="noopener" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;color:rgb(29,161,242);font-size:12px;padding-right:5px;outline:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal" target="_blank">@<span>yan_wang</span></a> </span><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" size="1"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:8pt"><font color="#666666"><br></font></span></font><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>