Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Just a reminder that the next AMA meeting happens tomorrow, <strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#27ae60"><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/6703697984" target="_blank">online</a> ,</font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#3498db"> </font></strong><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">on </font><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><u>Wednesday, October 16th at 1</u></font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><u>4</u></font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><u>:00-1</u></font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><u>5</u></font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><u>:00</u></font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><u> </u></font></strong><strong

style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><u>UTC</u></font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">(1</font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">0</font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">:00-1</font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">1</font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">:00 EDT).</font></strong></div><div><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></strong></div><div><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">*</font></strong><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Click <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=RDA+ECEIG+October+2019+AMA&iso=20191016T10&p1=3723&ah=1"

target="_blank">here</a> </font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">to find out the time of the event in your time zone.</font></div><div><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></strong></div><div><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Don't forget to register: </font></strong><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/codata-new-decadal-programme-and-rda-summer-schools-tickets-76687471291" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><font color="#1155cc"><span style="font-weight:normal">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e<wbr>/codata-new-decadal-programme-<wbr>and-rda-summer-schools-<wbr>tickets-76687471291</span></font></span></a></strong></div><div><br></div><div>Hope you can make it.</div><div><br></div><p

style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18px"><font color="#222222"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Mervyn O Luing</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><em><font color="#222222">on behalf of the </font></em><font color="#222222">Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG)</font></font></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><br></font></font></div><div><br>On Monday, 14 October 2019, Mervyn O'Luing <<a href="mailto:mervyn.oluing@insight-centre.org" target="_blank">mervyn.oluing@insight-centre.<wbr>org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><img src="/mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=16dce2b94ba35297&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_k1q54ppz0&zw&atsh=1" alt="image.png" width="542" height="271"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:15.6px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Hello everyone,</font></span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:15.6px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">We hope this email finds you well!</font><font color="#000000"> </font></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font>We

are writing to invite you to yet another "Ask me Anything"

meeting, this time dedicated to </font></font><strong><font color="#000000"><font><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/early-career-and-engagement-ig/event/ask-me-anything-call-codata-16th-october-2019-1500-1600" target="_blank">CODATA</a>.</font></font></strong></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font>Our

speaker </font></font><strong><font color="#000000"><font>Simon

Hodson </font></font></strong><font color="#000000"><font>will

t</font></font><font color="#222222"><font>alk

about </font></font><strong><font color="#222222"><font>CODATA

</font></font></strong><font color="#222222"><font>and

its mission and in particular the preparation for a decadal

programme, under the auspices of the International Science Council

(ISC), to make data work better for cross-domain global grand

challenges. The </font></font><strong><font color="#222222"><font>FAIR</font></font></strong><font color="#222222">

</font><font color="#222222"><font>principles

have enabled us to accelerate progress in improved data stewardship.

 It is essential for us to apply further effort to the</font></font><strong><font color="#222222">

</font></strong><strong><font color="#222222"><font>I</font></font></strong><font color="#222222">

</font><font color="#222222"><font>and

the </font></font><strong><font color="#222222"><font>R</font></font></strong><font color="#222222">

</font><font color="#222222"><font>of

</font></font><strong><font color="#222222"><font>FAIR</font></font></strong><font color="#222222"><font>:

interoperability and reusability.  This is particularly striking

in those areas of research and policy priority (climate change

adaptation, sustainable development, disaster risk reduction,

resilient and healthy cities, etc) where progress cannot be made

without making data from many different sources work together.</font></font><font color="#000000">

</font>

</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#000000"><font>CODATA

</font></font></strong><font color="#000000"><font>is

the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (<font color="#000000">ISC<font color="#000000">).

</font></font><strong><font color="#000000"><font>CODATA

</font></font></strong><font color="#000000"><font>exists

to promote global collaboration to improve the availability and

usability of data for all areas of research. </font></font><strong><font color="#000000"><font>CODATA</font></font></strong><font color="#000000">

</font><font color="#000000"><font>supports

the principle that data produced by research and susceptible to be

used for research should be as open as possible and as closed as

necessary. </font></font><strong><font color="#000000"><font>CODATA</font></font></strong><font color="#000000">

</font><font color="#000000"><font>works

also to advance the interoperability and the usability of such data:

research data should be intelligently open or <font color="#000000">FAIR<font color="#000000">.

By promoting the policy, technological and cultural changes that are

essential to make research data more widely available and more

usable, </font></font><strong><font color="#000000"><font>CODATA</font></font></strong><font color="#000000">

</font><font color="#000000"><font>helps

advance </font></font><font color="#000000"><font><b>IS</b>C</font></font><font color="#000000">’</font><font color="#000000"><font>s

mission of strengthening international science for the benefit of

society. </font></font>

</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a name="m_8266634591285490671_m_2846210936980148338_m_8902079625802562808LPNoLP161763"></a><font color="#000000"><font>If

you are interested in attending </font></font><strong><font color="#000000"><font><u>please

note that registration is required</u></font></font></strong><strong><font color="#000000"><font>: </font></font></strong><strong><font color="#1155cc">

</font></strong><strong><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/codata-new-decadal-programme-and-rda-summer-schools-tickets-76687471291" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant:normal"><font color="#1155cc"><font><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e<wbr>/codata-new-decadal-programme-<wbr>and-rda-summer-schools-<wbr>tickets-76687471291</span></span></span></font></font></span></a></strong></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Additional

information:</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font>The

talk will be held</font></font><strong><font color="#000000">

</font></strong><strong><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/6703697984" target="_blank"><font color="#27ae60"><font>online</font></font></a></strong><strong><font color="#3498db">

</font></strong><font color="#000000"><font>on </font></font><strong><font color="#222222"><font><u>Wednesday,

October 16th at 1</u></font></font></strong><strong><font color="#222222"><font><u>4</u></font></font></strong><strong><font color="#222222"><font><u>:00-1</u></font></font></strong><strong><font color="#222222"><font><u>5</u></font></font></strong><strong><font color="#222222"><font><u>:00</u></font></font></strong><strong><font color="#222222"><u>

</u></font></strong><strong><font color="#222222"><font><u>UTC</u></font></font></strong><strong>

</strong><strong><font color="#000000"><font>(1</font></font></strong><strong><font color="#000000"><font>0</font></font></strong><strong><font color="#000000"><font>:00-1</font></font></strong><strong><font color="#000000"><font>1</font></font></strong><strong><font color="#000000"><font>:00

EDT)</font></font></strong></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font>*Click

<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=RDA+ECEIG+October+2019+AMA&iso=20191016T10&p1=3723&ah=1" target="_blank">here</a>

</font></font><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000"><font>to

find out the time of the event in your time zone.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Some

short information about the speaker:</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

<br>

</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u>Short

bio</u></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font>Simon

Hodson has been Executive Director of CODATA since August 2013. Simon

is an expert on data policy issues and research data management. He

as contributed to influential reports on Current Best Practice for

Research Data Management Policies

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.27872" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo<wbr>.27872</a> and to the Science

International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World

<a href="http://www.science-international.org/#accord" target="_blank">http://www.science-internation<wbr>al.org/#accord</a> As part of his CODATA

role, Simon leads or participants in numerous projects, Working

Groups and Steering Groups. Currently, he is: Project Director,

African Open Science Platform Project

<a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/?page_id=54" target="_blank">http://africanopenscience.org.<wbr>za/?page_id=54</a> Chair, European

Commission’s Expert Group on FAIR Data, which is preparing a report

and guidelines on how to make FAIR data a reality

<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/fair_eg.pdf" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/research/<wbr>openscience/pdf/fair_eg.pdf</a>; Co-chair,

OECD Global Science Forum Project on Sustainable Business Models for

Data Repositories

<a href="http://www.codata.org/working-groups/oecd-gsf-sustainable-business-models" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org/working-<wbr>groups/oecd-gsf-sustainable-bu<wbr>siness-models</a>;

Co-chair, GEO Data Sharing Working Group, to which CODATA has made a

longterm contribution <a href="http://www.earthobservations.org/dswg.php" target="_blank">http://www.earthobservations.o<wbr>rg/dswg.php</a>;

Co-chair, IRIDIUM Research Data Management Glossary Working Group,

which is a collaboration between CODATA, CASRAI and Research Data

Canada

<a href="http://www.codata.org/working-groups/standard-glossary-for-research-data-management-iridium" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org/working-<wbr>groups/standard-glossary-for-r<wbr>esearch-data-management-iridiu<wbr>m</a>

Simon is also is a member of the Board of Directors

<a href="http://datadryad.org/pages/ourTeam" target="_blank">http://datadryad.org/pages/our<wbr>Team</a> of the Dryad Data Repository

<a href="http://datadryad.org/" target="_blank">http://datadryad.org/</a>, a not-for-profit initiative to make the data

underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and

citable; and he sits on the Scientific Advisory Board

<a href="https://www.cessda.eu/eng/About/Governance" target="_blank">https://www.cessda.eu/eng/Abou<wbr>t/Governance</a> of CESSDA ERIC

<a href="https://www.cessda.eu/" target="_blank">https://www.cessda.eu/</a>, the European data infrastructure for the

social sciences. Simon has a strong research background, as well as

considerable project and programme management experience: from 2009

to 2013, as Programme Manager, he led two successive phases of Jisc's

innovative Managing Research Data programme in the UK. </font></font>

</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

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</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#000000"><font>Twitter</font></font></strong><font color="#000000"><font>:</font></font><font color="#1155cc">

</font><font color="#1155cc"><font>@simonhodson99

AND @codataNEWS</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

<br>

</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#222222"><font>ORCID:</font></font></strong><font color="#222222"> </font><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3179-7270" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><font>https://orcid.org/0000-<wbr>0003-3179-7270</font></font></a><font color="#222222"> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

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</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><strong><font color="#00508f"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u>PLEASE

TAKE NOTE:</u></font></font></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The

Early Careers and RDA14th Plenary co-located meeting is on Tue, 22

October 2019, at 15:00 - 17:00, prior to the ‘RDA for Newcomers’

session. You can find further information on the RDA website <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/early-careers-and-rda-22-october-2019-rda-14th-plenary-co-located-meeting" target="_blank">here</a>.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

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</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Looking

forward to talking with you!</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

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</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font color="#222222"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Mervyn

O Luing</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><em><font color="#222222"><font>on

behalf of the </font></font></em><font color="#222222"><font>Early

Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG)</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

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