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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear AgMIP researchers;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">A group of researchers, data managers/informaticians, ontology experts, and others have worked together as part of the Research Data Alliance
(RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) to develop this QUICK (approx. 20 min)
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survey</a>, with the goal of assessing awareness, needs, and gaps relating to agricultural data standards and allied management practices, with a particular focus on interoperability. The overall messages and conclusions from this assessment will be presented
at the Fall/Winter 2021 18th Plenary meeting of the RDA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Your participation in this survey will be completely confidential, and the collected data will be securely managed and stored. Your name
will not be referenced or included in any way in the reports resulting from this survey. Your responses will be combined with those of other participants and presented in aggregated form.
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<span style="background:white">Thank you - we appreciate your participation by August 15!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Cheryl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Link to survey:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333132;background:#FAF8F1"><a href="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfCKA0ybN8mODbg2X-sEUz4LuseR1IIhM70RQPhKy-34AQ1yw%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link&data=04%7C01%7CWhiteheadB%40LANDCARERESEARCH.CO.NZ%7C2898c6129be9472baf7108d95b44f80a%7C43050530b3c74cd2a11cb826b2604b5b%7C0%7C0%7C637641174053816594%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Ayn5o631MzUsrKAdCylXpA4Eoo3UhevaBG2uPu1TfP4%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCKA0ybN8mODbg2X-sEUz4LuseR1IIhM70RQPhKy-34AQ1yw/viewform?usp=sf_link" shash="eS5OePb4FT1Jc1UiDCu3W2AwXho7EPMtQDpVkBrNKtvsVPIcj+jws+CIUk/bmCBSoiRUa3G47bFRH/WzV2D/mHt7qZFDIz09WYCraOoJrx+5NJUcXDRlzhchT6GDM1OeTCOULaz9L521a1+8NXtDdg/+/1ShxscHuzZL5pvSGFw=">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCKA0ybN8mODbg2X-sEUz4LuseR1IIhM70RQPhKy-34AQ1yw/viewform?usp=sf_link</a></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;background:#FAF8F1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0021A5">Cheryl H. Porter<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0021A5">Coordinator, Computer Research Applications<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#FF4A00">243 Frazier Rogers Hall, PO Box 110570<br>
Agricultural & Biological Engineering<br>
University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611-0570<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0021A5">Voice (352) 294-6736</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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