<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Second Plenary of the Research Data Alliance<u></u><u></u></b></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><span><span>September 16–18, 2013</span></span><u></u><u></u></b></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(26,26,26)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(26,26,26)">The Research Data Alliance invites participants from all walks of the research/data world to join us at the National Academy of Sciences for our Second Plenary!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(26,26,26)">--Experience fantastic keynote speakers—including Tom Kalil of the White House Office Science and Technology Policy, John Wilbanks of Sage Bionetworks and Carole Palmer, Univ. of Illinois<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(26,26,26)">--Rub elbows with individuals from supporting agencies like the US National Science Foundation, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, the European Commission, and the Department of Innovation through the Australian National Data Service (ANDS)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(26,26,26)">--Meet influencers from organizations like ESIP, CODATA, Microsoft Research, and W3C.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(26,26,26)">--Share your work and learn about others’ efforts at our poster session<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(26,26,26)">--Join our hands-on working sessions, breakouts of the Working and Interest Groups (</span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/working-and-interest-groups.html" target="_blank">https://www.rd-alliance.org/working-and-interest-groups.html</a>)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(26,26,26)">--Stay on for the DataCite meeting (<a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/2013-datacite-summer-meeting.html" target="_blank">https://www.rd-alliance.org/2013-datacite-summer-meeting.html</a>)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Register for the RDA Second Plenary today—and help define global infrastructure in the fields that you most care about!</b> Sign up at <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/future-events" target="_blank">https://www.rd-alliance.org/future-events</a>.</p>
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