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<pre><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We are pleased to inform that the next joint meeting of IG Geospatial & IG Big Data Analytics of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will be held at the Sixth RDA Plenary (23rd-25th Sep, 2015) in Paris to build upon our previous joint meeting and activities at RDA5 in San Diego, California . </font></pre>
<pre><pre><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The minutes and presentations from the joint meeting of Geospatial and Big Data IGs at RDA5 , San Deigo are available at
<a href="https://rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/minutes-joint-meeting-ig-geospatial-ig-big-data-p5.html" target="_blank">https://rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/minutes-joint-meeting-ig-geospatial-ig-big-data-p5.html</a>
Thanks to Chris Pettit (University of Melbourne) for chairing the P5 joint meeting aimed at bridging synergies with Geospatial and Big Data research communities in particular for our Road Map Challenge ideas for Urban Science and City Analytics (joint ideas in Geospatial and Big Data ) See ideas in place at <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics</a> and join the mailing list at <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience</a>
</font><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium"><br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium">The aim of our next joint meeting is to expand synergies in Geospatial Big Data Analytics and research. Myself and my co-chairs in Geospatial IG will welcome your ideas for planning the various WG activities. We will use this meeting opportunity to also build upon actions from our previous meetings of the Geospatial IG at Dublin and Amsterdam Plenaries in 2014.</span></pre></pre>
<pre><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The draft program for the Paris Plenary joint meeting is available at </font><a href="https://rd-alliance.org/ig-geospatial-p6-joint-session.html" target="_blank">https://rd-alliance.org/ig-geospatial-p6-joint-session.html</a> </pre>
<pre><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The joint meeting aims to build upon our previous joint meeting at RDA5 and draft agenda below
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<li><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium">Updates on Geospatial IG</span></li><li><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium">Updates on Big Data IG</span></li><li><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium">Presentation and discussion on EC's 'big data' portal EarthServer . Details at </span><a href="http://www.earthserver.eu/about" target="_blank">http://www.earthserver.eu/about</a> </li><li><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium">2- 3 short presentations to be finalised on both Geo and Big Data</span></li><li><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium">Ideas for specific actions in Geospatial IG and Big Data IG</span></li><li><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium">Explore collaborations for future joint bids (H2020, NSF etc)</span></li></ul>
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<pre><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">If anyone is interested to contribute their ideas/topics for this meeting, please let Andrea Perego (JRC, European Commission ; Email - <span id="spnR" title="andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu">andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu </span>) <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); white-space:pre-wrap">know by 15th Sep, 2015. </span></font></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium">We are looking forward to expand these ideas in the future. Looking forward to Plenary 6 meetings with a focus on Research Data for Climate Change.</span></pre>
<pre><pre><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); white-space:pre-wrap">Best wishes,</span></pre></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Suchith Anand, Peter Baumann, Andrea Perego, Luciene Delzari, Helena Mitasova, Chris Pettit</font></pre></pre>
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