Maybe of interest... 
-Jodi
 (via the DARIAH EU project)

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> Meeting on Global Collaboration on Data Issues, Washington DC, 1. October
> 2012 (in the realm of the DataNet 2012 Meeting) European Preparation Meeting
> Munich/Garching, 24. September 2012 (in the realm of the iCORDI Kickoff)
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> Dear colleagues,
> 
> A worldwide interaction has been started to harmonize data access and
> interoperability solutions in which various data practitioners  from the US,
> EU, Australia and other areas are already involved and which also includes
> stakeholders such as NSF, the EC and other research agencies. Two acronyms
> have been used for this broad bottom-up organized process: DAITF (Data
> Access and Interoperability Task Force) and DWF (Data Web Forum) both
> referring to the same intentions - yet it is not clear which name finally
> will be used and how the governance structure will look like. A first
> meeting with global participation took place in Copenhagen in March (see
> www.daitf.org) with about 40 experts from many areas of the world. The
> meetings indicated above are follow-ups of the Copenhagen meeting.
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> We are moving towards the next global meetings:
> 1) The first follow-up meeting will take place in Washington DC at 1.
> October
> 2) We will need to start planning the next follow up meeting which will take
> place in Europe (probably in March 2013, location needs to be determined).
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> Since we cannot expect that many European experts will have the funds to go
> to the Washington meeting we will organize a "European" preparation meeting
> in Munich/Garching at 24. September.
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> It should be added that there will be a BOF session about the establishment
> of a world-wide PID infrastructure based on Handles in Vancouver at the IETF
> meeting (30.7.2012). Some may be interested to go to Vancouver and as you
> may know IETF meetings are open.
> 
> We are almost ready to start an open discussion about the topics that should
> be dealt with in the Washington and Munich meetings. Since this is a
> bottom-up driven process, everyone registered will be invited very soon to
> motivate a special BOF session (startup brainstorming). Please use the web
> site (www.daitf.org) to find the most recent information about the events -
> it will be updated coming week.
> 
> In Copenhagen we have established a preliminary Steering Group to coordinate
> these bottom-up activities until we have a smoothly running governance
> structure. We decided to use the simple "www.daitf.org" web-site to organize
> our activities in the first phase.
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> The Washington and Munich meeting should be open to everyone interested
> although we will have restrictions defined by the rooms we will be using.
> The discussion about special BOF sessions and Working Group sessions about
> selected high-priority topics will be opened probably coming week as well.
> 
> Please, visit the DAITF web-Site (www.daitf.org) to find last information.
> To get access to the discussion forum you have to register. Please, send an
> email to [log in to unmask] to get access.
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> We hope on your active participation at least in the Munich meeting and that
> some will go to Washington.
> 
> best regards
> Peter Wittenburg
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