<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________________________</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">*Apologies for cross-posting*</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="color:blue;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">NADDI 2016 Early bird registration deadline, March 18!</font><span style="font-size:24pt"></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><b><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">NADDI 2016: Document, Discover, and Interoperate (April 6-8<sup>th</sup>, 2016)</span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada</font></span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://naddiconf.org/2016/" target="_blank">http://naddiconf.org/2016/</a></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The North American DDI (NADDI) user conference provides opportunities for all who are actively using or are interested in learning about this community-developed metadata standard for observational research data. This is a conference to come together, connect, and learn from one another. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">NADDI 2016 will be a three-day conference consisting of hands-on workshops (<i>April 6</i>) and both invited and contributed presentations (<i>April 7 & 8</i>). These events will be of interest to a broad community, including research and data professionals in the social and health sciences and other disciplines, and at all levels of expertise, from novice to expert.</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This year’s conference theme is ‘Document, Discover, and Interoperate’.</span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The full power of DDI is exhibited through its applications in documenting, discovering, and interoperating data. These are activities that sustain the flow of vital information throughout a research project. Through the use of DDI, this research information is defined, identified, structured so that it can be shared predictably with other applications or be machine-actionable.</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:15pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt">Important Dates!</span></b><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 47.25pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:7pt;font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt">Presenter's deadline to register - March 18, 2016</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 47.25pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:7pt;font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt">Early rate registration closes - March 18, 2016</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 47.25pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:7pt;font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt">Registration deadline</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"> - March 28, 2016</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">WORKSHOPS</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">: </span><a href="http://www.cvent.com/d/gfq8sm" target="_blank">http://www.cvent.com/d/gfq8sm</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">CONFERENCE PROGRAM</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">: </span><a href="http://www.cvent.com/d/gfq8sm" target="_blank">http://www.cvent.com/d/gfq8sm</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The hosts of this year’s NADDI conference are the Health Research Data Repository (<a href="https://uofa.ualberta.ca/nursing/research/research-supports-and-services/hrdr" target="_blank">https://uofa.ualberta.ca/nursing/research/research-supports-and-services/hrdr</a>) and </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><a href="http://uofa.ualberta.ca/nursing/research/research-supports-and-services" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt">Faculty of Nursing Research Office</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> of the University of Alberta.</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For more information please visit the conference website at: <a href="http://naddiconf.org/2016/" target="_blank">http://naddiconf.org/2016/</a></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For immediate inquiries or additional information at this time please contact the conference Chair, James Doiron (<a href="mailto:jdoiron@ualberta.ca" target="_blank">jdoiron@ualberta.ca</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">_______________________________________________________________________________</span></p></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div>Wendy L. Thomas Phone: +1 612.624.4389</div><div>Data Access Core Director Fax: +1 612.626.8375</div><div>Minnesota Population Center Email: <a href="mailto:wlt@umn.edu" target="_blank">wlt@umn.edu</a></div><div>University of Minnesota</div><div>50 Willey Hall</div><div>225 19th Avenue South</div><div>Minneapolis, MN 55455</div></div>
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