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<div style="display:block; text-align:left; margin:0; padding:0"><font size="4" face="Helvetica" color="#202020"><span style="font-size:22px"><b>HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Virtual Hackathon</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
The </span></font><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=403295eaf0&e=a69b78f225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk927860" style="text-decoration:underline" previewremoved="true"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#2BAADF"><span style="font-size:14px; font-weight:normal">Information
Management Code Registry (IMCR)</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"> will host a virtual hackathon on Wednesday
</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>November 14, 2018</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"> from 10AM to 8PM ET
to continue development of three R packages. Learn more and find out how to participate
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</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>AGU Data Help Desk</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
If you’re attending the AGU 2018 meeting, </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>10-14 December 2018</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">,
please stop by the Data Help Desk with your data questions or to just say hello! EDI, in collaboration with AGU, ESIP, Arctic Data Center, and DataONE, organized the Data Help Desk to provide scientists with opportunities to meet with informatics experts
and learn about tools and techniques to make their data open and FAIR. For more information, please visit:
</span></font><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=a24bf96ddf&e=a69b78f225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk145946" style="text-decoration:underline" previewremoved="true"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#2BAADF"><span style="font-size:14px; font-weight:normal">http://www.copdess.org/data-fairs/2018-agu-fall-meeting-data-fair/</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">.</span></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Enabling FAIR Data</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
In connection with the </span></font><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=b030932bed&e=a69b78f225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk458444" style="text-decoration:underline" previewremoved="true"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#2BAADF"><span style="font-size:14px; font-weight:normal">The
International Data Week 2018</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">, the
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FAIR Data Project </span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">is promoting its
</span></font><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=b196011029&e=a69b78f225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk473994" style="text-decoration:underline" previewremoved="true"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#2BAADF"><span style="font-size:14px; font-weight:normal">Commitment
Statement in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">. “FAIR” is defined as Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable in the Guiding
Principles of the </span></font><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=ade3c143ad&e=a69b78f225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk929469" style="text-decoration:underline" previewremoved="true"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#2BAADF"><span style="font-size:14px; font-weight:normal">GO
(Global Open) FAIR Initiative</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">. More information can be found
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<font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>New Functions Supporting ISO 8601 Datetimes</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
Functions supporting ISO 8601 datetimes are now available from the dataCleanr R library. Create ISO 8601 character strings with iso8601_char. Read ISO 8601 character strings with iso8601_read. Detect ISO 8601 format string with iso8601_format. These functions
support valid ISO8601 datetime resolutions and time zones. </span></font><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=5a1ae6b56f&e=a69b78f225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk193997" style="text-decoration:underline" previewremoved="true"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#2BAADF"><span style="font-size:14px; font-weight:normal">Find
out more at the project GitHub</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">.</span></font><br>
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<li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">13 November 2018, 2 PM EDT:
</span></font><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=502774cedd&e=a69b78f225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk664419" style="text-decoration:underline" previewremoved="true"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#2BAADF"><span style="font-size:14px; font-weight:normal">“Associating
EDI data packages with journal articles that use them”. </span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">(Duane Costa, EDI). For registration and connection information, please see
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</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">4 December 2018, 2 PM EDT: “Converting community survey data packages into the ecocomDP data model format” (Colin Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison/EDI and
Margaret O’Brien, UCSB/EDI).</span></font> </li></ul>
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For a complete list of EDI's planned contributions at the </span></font><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=9fb3fceff9&e=a69b78f225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk999119" style="text-decoration:underline" previewremoved="true"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#2BAADF"><span style="font-size:14px; font-weight:normal">2018
AGU Fall Meeting</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"> (10-14 December 2018, Washington, DC), please check our website
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</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="black"><span style="font-size:14px; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-variant:normal">EDI plans to host a workshop in March 2019 on the use of existing
vocabularies in EML annotation (ENVO, EnvThes, LTER Controlled Vocabulary). EDI will work with LTER and the broader community to develop topics for discussion. Watch for future announcements about how you may participate!</span></font>
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