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<b>Subject:</b> EDI Newsletter April 2018</font>
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<span style="color:#B22222"><strong>Newsletter . April 2018</strong></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="color:#000000"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS</strong></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="">We updated our <strong>data policy</strong>. See
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here</a> for details.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style=""><strong>Conference travel support for Information Managers (IMs):</strong> With the summer conference season beginning soon, we would like to remind you that IMs from the LTER, MSB, OBFS, and LTREB communities may
apply for funds from EDI to attend meetings or other information management-related activities that strive to increase the contribution of data from their respective communities into a publicly-accessible and long-term data archive, such as the EDI Repository.
Please check out our website for more information <a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=9a5989f968&e=1202661e8d" style="color:#2BAADF; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:underline" id="LPlnk207799" previewremoved="true">
here</a>. One interesting opportunity is the upcoming 20th! ESIP Summer Meeting in Tucson, AZ (July 16-20, 2018) for which the
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call for sessions and workshops</a> is open until April 30th 2018 .<br>
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Announcement on behalf of the organizers of the <strong>Oceanhackweek 2018</strong>: “Join the Oceanhackweek 2018 to explore Data Science in Oceanography!” (August 20-24, 2018, Seattle). For more information, please refer to this
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webpage</a> and the flyer <a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=bfb8cc4dce&e=1202661e8d" target="_blank" style="color:#2BAADF; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:underline" id="LPlnk446499" previewremoved="true">
here</a>.</span></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="">TECHNICAL INFORMATION & DEVELOPMENT</span></span></strong></h1>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>PASTA’s date and time format quality check took a step out of the box this past month</strong> and used Python to assist in parsing preferred date and time
formats and generating regular expression strings that are used for validating date and time data. For more information see
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here</a>.</span></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="">UPCOMING EVENTS & WEBINARS</span></span></strong></h1>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="">For details on our upcoming video discussions, tutorials and webinars see
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here</a>. The next webinar will be on <span style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#212121; font-family:arial; font-size:12pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
24 April 2018 </span><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=0c252ae760&e=1202661e8d" target="_blank" style="color:#2BAADF; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:underline" id="LPlnk371673" previewremoved="true">“Make
a data catalog on your local website.”</a> <span style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#212121; font-family:arial; font-size:12pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
Speakers are Margaret O’Brien (EDI) and Duane Costa (EDI)</span> <span style="font-size:16px">
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