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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear CDF members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23719621">AI Magazine</a> is having a special issue on the “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">intersection of
 the FAIR Principles and Machine Learning, AI Readiness and AI Reproducibility” (invitation only). There is an opportunity to submit an article on AI-readiness from the data facility perspective, looking at progress and challenges. Is anyone in the CDF community
 interested in making this a group effort? Timeline is fairly tight: first draft by June 16.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">-Karen</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Karen Stocks, PhD <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Director, Geological Data Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Scripps Institution of Oceanography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">+1 858-534-1898<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:kstocks@ucsd.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">kstocks@ucsd.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Schreiber, Lynne <lbschreiber@ucsd.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Stocks, Karen <kstocks@ucsd.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Kirkpatrick, Christine <christine@sdsc.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Invitation to submit an article for a special issue in AI Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Karen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As you may remember, we are organizing an invitation-only, special issue for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)'s
</span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23719621"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">AI Magazine</span></a></span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
 This email is your formal invitation to take part and we're hopeful you will accept by using this
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://forms.gle/AUCdunGVhFFq2wQv6"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">link</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
 We ask you to let us know by April 30th and papers are due by June 16.  Any revisions would be made by you during November.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The FARR (FAIR in ML, AI-readiness and Reproducibility) Research Coordination Network is seeking articles for a special issue in<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23719621"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span></a></span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23719621"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">AI Magazine</span></a></span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> at
 the intersection of the FAIR Principles and Machine Learning, AI Readiness and AI Reproducibility.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The special issue is interested in the following topics, with papers ideally addressing both research and practice aspects of more than one topic, and
 with other related topics also welcome:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Improving AI reproducibility, and understanding sources of irreproducibility<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FAIR data practices and leveraging large language models (LLMs) for increasing the FAIRness of domain-specific applications<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Challenges and progress in making data AI-ready, including automation in dataset preparation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Defining and improving FAIR in the context of AI, such as for AI models<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Metadata and AI, including potential standards for AI models<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Private AI models tailored to specific contexts<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Understanding and addressing gaps in standards and best practices across various fields<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The role of institutional stakeholders, such as data repositories<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">See below for additional information regarding the special issue.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Special Issue Editors</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Geoffrey Fox</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, University of Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Daniel S. Katz</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, NCSA & SCDS & iSchool, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Christine R. Kirkpatrick</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, SDSC, University of California San Diego<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yuhun (Douglas) Rao</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, North Carolina Institute for
 Climate Studies, North Carolina State University<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Notes</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:14.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Authors
<b>Do Not</b> pay publication fees<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Articles are
<b>open access</b><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Guidelines</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">AI Magazine prefers expository articles, 6000-9000 words in length (including references and author biographies), without a lot of mathematical formalism.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 guidelines</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tentative Schedule</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://forms.gle/AUCdunGVhFFq2wQv6"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">Intent to submit: April 30, 2025</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Papers due: June 16, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Reviews due: August 15, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Paper submission addressing comments: September 30, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2nd reviews: October 31, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Final Papers: November 28, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Publication: Spring 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We look forward to your contribution to this special issue in AI Magazine. Please let us know if you have any questions.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kind regards,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Lynne Schreiber and Christine Kirkpatrick</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://www.farr-rcn.org/get-involved/ai-magazine"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">https://www.farr-rcn.org/get-involved/ai-magazine</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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