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<p><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">Dear Natural History Museum / Botanical Garden staff member,</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">First, apologies for cross-posting if this were the case.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">We would like to ask you for a few minutes of your time to answer this online survey (</span><a id="LPlnk628157" style="font-size:14.666666984558105px" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/975JNGJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/975JNGJ</span></a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102); font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16px">)
regarding georeferencing practices at Natural History Museums and Botanical Gardens. We ask you to answer it in relation to the collection at your institution you may be responsible for, either directly or indirectly. We will also appreciate it if you can
circulate this link to other people you may know who may answer it for other collections.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">This survey is an activity of the Working Group 2 of the EU MOBILISE Cost Action. You can take a look at what the cost action is about at:<a style="color:purple" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/tr/v1/te/akU_2BQc2vAhAsa_2B264x1g60NYhY4tfIVZC_2B_2F23MiZ8_2FE7enYPad1gu9bup_2F4TWWIBAb6YoNAfelzJNPV3BvxevCMhvjRfdWjWdSmNEGLgI3_2FjexubePtPTutgeJCv1XH3uxXNsPNbJomJGiKsCfNRHA_3D_3D">https://www.mobilise-action.eu</a>.
The MOBILISE Cost Action is under the umbrella of DiSSCo, the Distributed System of Scientific Collections, which is an EU research infrastructure for natural science collections (<a style="color:purple" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/tr/v1/te/akU_2BQc2vAhAsa_2B264x1g67bWxh9tK0QWQ3FoUHByI_2BpE0Gr3PWFcLhJy06olKD81ws2dG_2Fs9D8YiRHypsLfbIcpAurH74wbrjbzM_2B4a_2Fic7_2FVUNSxp_2BcuEc1p4JxeCE2">https://www.dissco.eu</a>).</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">This survey is being sent to Botanical Gardens and Natural History Museums around the world for research purposes. Its results will help to take a picture of the current
state of georeferencing of natural history collections. Results will be presented at a MOBILISE workshop which will take place in Warsaw, Poland, in February 2020. The survey is anonymous but, we will happily send the results to you if you opt for it in the
survey.</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">We very much appreciate and thank you in advance for your time,</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">Arnald Marcer [1], Quentin Groom [2], Elspeth Haston [3] and Francesc Uribe [4]</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">[1] CREAF, Spain</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">[2] Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">[3] Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:16px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)">[4] Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Spain</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>
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Legal note: <br>
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Please be informed that your personal data (only name and work email in this survey) are protected under European and Spanish regulations on personal data protection (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, of 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard
to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and Ley Orgánica 3/2018, de 5 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos Personales y garantía de los derechos digitales).
The CENTRE DE RECERCA ECOLÒGICA I APLICACIONS FORESTALS (CREAF) is liable for data handling.<br>
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Your contact data have been collected from two public access databases: Botanic Gardens Conservation International (<a style="color:purple" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/tr/v1/te/2thxbWOu2Q2bQx3VINsI9jL2oT_2B0pf89b1GDBLlBgnxkliN0tTJUasBZrbAl6ShxV89bNWvb7i8o4aJ84_2FrfQqLAB0PEuJ39butIQwKLEslXkYhOMWUHtCdzwc6RgN_2BV">http://www.bgci.org</a>),
GRSciColl: The Global Registry of Scientific Collections (<a style="color:purple" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/tr/v1/te/akU_2BQc2vAhAsa_2B264x1g63KknFc4_2FXeBa2thjOh4vxa6Dx_2BN0yJJlupYEXmLT4bQ0ohEI8rkbDg3H0g0Wz53PVI6jzkzhOgJZabBW4wjCfPUzEAYTSxTG_2B1L7kmuhZ6Gmd5nIohS8PZ3gGyNqV2KCg_3D_3D">https://www.gbif.org/grscicoll</a>);
or provided by CETAF (<a style="color:purple" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/tr/v1/te/UoCqGMsfe9RDEKLqXwXGyKgFY8Uxhj_2FE_2FgtNAmzVklHJsSDFX75CJlfKNEpMSgZ8QpGvLFS_2BCxY1yawNTw0NQ0qYaGfImm_2BhmM_2FMAOD7Uq8mLwOJhAikD_2BgLyJrNQKva">https://cetaf.org</a>).<br>
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The sole aim of handling these data is to send you a single email asking for participation in this survey conducted by CREAF [Survey on georeferencing activities at institutions holding Natural History Collections]. Additionally, if you give your consent and
provide your contact data in the corresponding question in the survey, we will use it to send you back the results of the survey when finished.<br>
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These data will be kept only for the duration of this particular survey. They will not be handled to third parties except if bound by a compulsory legal obligation.<br>
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At any moment, you may ask for access to your personal data, for modification, opposition, cancelation, portability and to be forgotten. For these matters, you only need to send an email to <a style="color:purple" href="mailto:dpo@creaf.uab.cat">dpo@creaf.uab.cat</a>.
You may also claim your rights in front of the Catalan Data Protection Authority.<br>
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In answering this survey I agree with CREAF’s privacy policy (<a style="color:purple" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/tr/v1/te/2thxbWOu2Q2bQx3VINsI9qsfUC95FFabWXQXkrK5idTeygQsZ8XKBhM8_2FiD9W5U2_2BWsrxocEjtvgLg8CYhcwSLQVn8ea8JlorqqmwMK7pBcjM37F_2BToL0MXxWtesEdTqqvRG3loHcBi_2FNjiJ0_2FgQVazhCPKBADcHMByF3Y28uiE_3D">http://www.creaf.cat/privacy-policy</a>).</span></div>
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