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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am pleased to inform that following the successful meetings in Dublin last week, I have now started process to establish a Geospatial IG for the Research Data Alliance and i am hoping this will be established and endorsed by the RDA in due course. This will help us put Geospatial theme at the highest level for policy instruments and impact globally.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Research Data Alliance (RDA)</b> <a href="https://rd-alliance.org/">https://rd-alliance.org/</a> is a key strategic initiative of the European Commission, National Science Foundation (US) and the Australian Government aiming to build social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data Cross-border & cross-disciplinary challenges.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Summary of Geospatial meeting at <a href="https://rd-alliance.org/bof-geospatial-information-meeting-rda3.html">https://rd-alliance.org/bof-geospatial-information-meeting-rda3.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also presented on the <b>Geo4All</b> <a href="http://www.geoforall.org/">http://www.geoforall.org/</a> initiative and the BBSRC funded AgriGIS research that we are doing at Nottingham for the Agriculture IG meeting. Details at <a href="https://rd-alliance.org/reports-meeting-3rd-plenary-dublin.html">https://rd-alliance.org/reports-meeting-3rd-plenary-dublin.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We also had productive meetings to take forward some of the actions from sustainable cities theme at RDA Dublin, following Australia-EC meetings last Nov in Canberra that I participated. Thanks to Chris Pettit and all our colleagues at the Open Source Geospatial Lab at University of Melbourne for their work on this. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/pdf/Third%20European%20Australian%20Workshop%20on%20Research%20Infrastructure%20Communique.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/pdf/Third%20European%20Australian%20Workshop%20on%20Research%20Infrastructure%20Communique.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am also pleased to inform that we will be working with RDA for the <b>"Building up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science"</b> on 2nd September 2014 (in parallel to OSGIS 2014) for bringing together colleagues from Open Access , Open Data and Open Education for building synergies and collaboration opportunities. We will be organising a <b>RDA Newcomer session</b> at this event for welcoming more colleagues to RDA and build further build ideas for collaborations. More details of this will be announced soon at <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx</a> and we look forward to welcoming you for "Building up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science".<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also some background on the wider Open Science developments <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://blog.okfn.org/2013/03/21/we-are-entering-an-era-of-open-science-says-eu-vp-neelie-kroes/">http://blog.okfn.org/2013/03/21/we-are-entering-an-era-of-open-science-says-eu-vp-neelie-kroes/</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/docs/open-infrastructure-for-open-science.pdf">http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/docs/open-infrastructure-for-open-science.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suchith<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS: The deadline for abstracts for OSGIS 2014 is <b>22nd April 2014</b>, and we are looking forward to seeing you at OSGIS for discussions and building future research collaborations<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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