RDA Virtual Plenary 18 - Notification of Acceptance

10 Sep 2021

Dear Chairs of the Repository Platforms for Research Data IG and Domain Repositories IG,
The Technical Advisory Board (TAB) has completed its review of session applications for the RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) and has accepted your application titled Cooperative Innovation Among Resilient Repository Platforms for Open Research Data. Please consider this your official notification of acceptance. Congratulations!
TAB has asked the Secretariat to communicate some suggestions to you for improving your session: They would like you to please clarify and elaborate on the agenda and session objectives.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding these suggestions, or prefer to discuss them with TAB, please contact your TAB liaisons, Helen Glaves and Gretchen Greene (copied in this email).
At this time, the Secretariat is scheduling all approved sessions and the draft programme will be published on 24th September. Any requests for changes should be made by 1st October and the final detailed programme with your session time and link to your session page will be published by 8th October 2021 on the RDA website.
For this meeting, Zoom will be used for your session and further information and access details will be provided in due course.
Going forward, please begin planning for your session. As a reminder, there will be some individuals who attend your session who are unfamiliar with your group’s work. We encourage you to keep your session page updated with information about your group, your session and opportunities attendees will have to engage with you and others during the session.
Please contact us at ***@***.***-foundation.org, or your TAB liaison (as indicated above), if you have any questions about your session.
Registration for VP18 is now live, please see here for details together with an outline of the registration fees. Please bear in mind that RDA is not in a position to offer free speaker admissions or single-session rates. Registered participants have access to all programme components, including recordings of all meetings.
Should you wish to submit a poster for VP18 please remember the deadline for submission is Wednesday 15th September 2021 23:59 UTC . Please see here for further details.
We look forward to your participation at VP18, and on behalf of the RDA TAB and Secretariat, thank you for your ongoing engagement with the RDA.
All the best,
RDA Secretariat

  • Robert Downs's picture

    Author: Robert Downs

    Date: 10 Sep, 2021

    Dear RDA Secretariat and members of the RPRD IG and Domain Repositories IG,
    On behalf of the co-chairs of both groups who organized the session, I
    would like to express our appreciation to you and the TAB for accepting our
    joint session for RDA VP18 and for providing suggestions for improvement.
    We also would like to invite others who are interested in speaking
    about Cooperative
    Innovation Among Resilient Repository Platforms for Open Research Data

    to contact us within the next couple of weeks so that we can include them
    on the agenda.
    Thanks,
    Bob
    Robert R. Downs, PhD
    Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
    Acting Head of Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics Research and Development
    Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
    The Earth Institute, Columbia University
    P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
    Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922
    E-mail: ***@***.***
    Pronouns: he/him/his
    Columbia University CIESIN Web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
    ORCID: 0000-0002-8595-5134
    On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 2:58 AM Secretariat <***@***.***-foundation.org>
    wrote:

  • Robert Downs's picture

    Author: Robert Downs

    Date: 10 Sep, 2021

    Dear RDA Secretariat and members of the RPRD IG and Domain Repositories IG,
    On behalf of the co-chairs of both groups who organized the session, I
    would like to express our appreciation to you and the TAB for accepting our
    joint session for RDA VP18 and for providing suggestions for improvement.
    We also would like to invite others who are interested in speaking
    about Cooperative
    Innovation Among Resilient Repository Platforms for Open Research Data

    to contact us within the next couple of weeks so that we can include them
    on the agenda.
    Thanks,
    Bob
    Robert R. Downs, PhD
    Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
    Acting Head of Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics Research and Development
    Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
    The Earth Institute, Columbia University
    P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
    Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922
    E-mail: ***@***.***
    Pronouns: he/him/his
    Columbia University CIESIN Web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
    ORCID: 0000-0002-8595-5134
    On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 2:58 AM Secretariat <***@***.***-foundation.org>
    wrote:

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