Dear Chairs of the FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG,
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 FAIR for VREs - The Path Forward. Please consider this your official notification of acceptance. Congratulations!
TAB has asked the Secretariat to communicate some suggestions to you for improving your session: The description of this WG session and the VRE IG session are very similar. TAB therefore suggests you make the agendas distinctly different or, if the content is the same, merge this session with the VRE IG session.
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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,
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Author: Sandra Gesing
Date: 08 Sep, 2021
Dear all,
Many thanks for the great news! The idea with the overlap of the topic of
the WG and the IG was to address topics in the IG which won't be addressed
by the WG session but to inform each other since the WG is under the
umbrella of the IG. The goal of the IG is to have discussions beyond
FAIRness of VREs that could spin out a further WG addressing trust in and
critical thinking about results in VREs when using novel technologies such
as AI and VR. We mention FAIRness to address that this is one aspect for
increasing trust but we think it is not enough to make VREs fair to achieve
trust and avoid "blind trust". We aim at discussing the balance between
trust and critical thinking.
Does that sound okay? Should we maybe change the title?
Thanks,
Sandra
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Sandra Gesing
Scientific Outreach and DEI Lead
Discovery Partner Institute
University of Illinois Chicago
Email: ***@***.*** <***@***.***>
Phone: 1-312-668-9041
http://sandra-gesing.com/
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On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 11:41 AM Secretariat <***@***.***-foundation.org>
wrote:
Author: Kheeran Dharmaw...
Date: 16 Sep, 2021
Sandra,
We should consider changing the title to address the TAB concerns. I don't
think it is much of an issue, but we could change the title to be,
"FAIR for VREs - The need for making VREs FAIR"
Cheers
Kheeran
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 3:57 AM Sandra Gesing via FAIR for Virtual Research
Environments WG <***@***.***-groups.org> wrote: