<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><img class="gmail-image-inline" title="Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC. Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC. CC BY 2.0" src="https://www.icsu-wds.org/images/second-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-scientific-data-management-workshop" alt="Second Latin America and the Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop" width="100%" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 1px 4px;"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Owing to a number of requests, <a class="external-link" title="" href="https://sites.google.com/icsu-wds.org/lac-workshop-2020#h.p_yu3zgjSyM1WH" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">abstract submission</a> for the Workshop has been extended one (very) last time to Sunday, 1 March. To enable people to already start planning their journeys, abstracts received thus far will now be reviewed and the authors notified of acceptance.</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">This <a class="external-link" title="" href="http://sites.google.com/icsu-wds.org/lac-workshop-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">Workshop</a> is convened by WDS, in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.abc.org.br/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">Brazilian Academy of Sciences</a>, the <a href="http://www.fapesp.br/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">São Paulo Research Foundation</a>, and the <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">Research Data Alliance</a> (RDA). It builds on the success of the <a href="http://lacworkshop.icsu-wds.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">First Latin America and Caribbean Workshop</a> in 2018 that explored the data landscape in the region to understand the opportunities and challenges, and discussed how data initiatives could be supported by WDS. The Second Workshop will continue discussions on data management best practices for data repositories and on new trends and perspectives for scientific data systems. However, there will also be a greater emphasis on analyzing and finding concrete solutions to the technical, political, and infrastructure issues identified during the First Workshop.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">We invite all researchers and scientists currently involved in scientific data management initiatives in the Latin American and the Caribbean region to present their experiences, research, operations, and projects or programmes at the Workshop. Abstracts for short oral presentations must be in English and should not exceed 3000 characters. The deadline for abstract submission is <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sunday, 1 March</strong>.</p><h4 style="margin:1.71429rem 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.84615;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Registration</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Online registration is now open. The process is managed by FAPESP, who officially <a class="external-link" title="" href="http://www.fapesp.br/eventos/wds" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">invite you here</a> to join us in São Paulo.</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a class="external-link" title="" href="http://www.fapesp.br/eventos/wds/registration" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP</a></strong></li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">For more information on the Workshop, Call for Abstracts, and Registration, please see the </strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/icsu-wds.org/lac-workshop-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop website</strong></a>.</p></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Asha</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><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"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>