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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please forward the following webinar announcement to your respective networks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday this week my colleague, Sharif Islam (DiSSCo Data Architect) will be speaking on ‘<b><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rd-alliance.org%2Fconnecting-data-institutions-and-people-fair-digital-objects-rda-outputs-and-design-dissco-research&data=04%7C01%7Cabentley%40ku.edu%7C8ad8fd61e84d4d5f0bb008d8e7bc1e5d%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C1%7C637514142444294120%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=81sk5%2FHzvmEdx6KO2eL3tWBVBaPwrLLpNG33Qe9E%2F7A%3D&reserved=0">Connecting
data, institutions and people: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA Outputs and the design of the DiSSCo Research Architecture</a></b>’. The presentation accompanies a recently published Data Science Journal article on the same topic:
<a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.5334%2Fdsj-2020-050&data=04%7C01%7Cabentley%40ku.edu%7C8ad8fd61e84d4d5f0bb008d8e7bc1e5d%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C1%7C637514142444304116%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=4S52YtoMuWnnDZVNjF9j4uEXl%2F7GzddlYGMLkqefbcQ%3D&reserved=0">
http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-050</a>. As well as explaining the DiSSCo technical design based on Research Data Alliance outputs, the talk will also mention our global conversation around the convergence of Digital Specimen and Extended Specimen concepts
towards a shared vision that connects all information related to a specimen.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This webinar is part of the ‘RDA-US - 2021 Webinar Series Highlighting RDA Outputs’ hosted by
<a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rd-alliance.org%2Fgroups%2Frda-united-states&data=04%7C01%7Cabentley%40ku.edu%7C8ad8fd61e84d4d5f0bb008d8e7bc1e5d%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C1%7C637514142444314120%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=OP126Mk7vEqGzXtG47k5qHXJZ4rFhh7jGf8b%2BQ7ZWC0%3D&reserved=0">
RDA in the United States</a> so timed well for American time zones. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date: Thursday, March 18<sup>th</sup> 2021</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Time: UTC 18:00 – 19:00 (EDT 14:00, CDT 13:00, MDT 12:00, MST/PDT 11:00)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Info: <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rd-alliance.org%2Fconnecting-data-institutions-and-people-fair-digital-objects-rda-outputs-and-design-dissco-research&data=04%7C01%7Cabentley%40ku.edu%7C8ad8fd61e84d4d5f0bb008d8e7bc1e5d%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C1%7C637514142444314120%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=l1yvgPh5mJu5ODV71Nhbqwi1D2GiN0Hz7M%2BtuS%2BRAN4%3D&reserved=0">
https://www.rd-alliance.org/connecting-data-institutions-and-people-fair-digital-objects-rda-outputs-and-design-dissco-research</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Registration:</span> <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_PDHfU7d-TQ-5Bl_JzcFTsw&data=04%7C01%7Cabentley%40ku.edu%7C8ad8fd61e84d4d5f0bb008d8e7bc1e5d%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C1%7C637514142444324101%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=dzjwRf2FQ7ClLMTXmZk%2FgG5fOxI9LKit7Oimux0Ljfs%3D&reserved=0">
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PDHfU7d-TQ-5Bl_JzcFTsw</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please don’t forget to register.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alex</span></p>
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