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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3D3E;background:white">The U.S. National Science Foundation, through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL),
</span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf24085"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">nsf24085 Dear Colleague Letter: Leveraging Cyberinfrastructure for Research Data Management (RDM) | NSF - National Science Foundation</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3D3E;background:white">,
invites Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) and conference/workshop proposals that aim to leverage cyberinfrastructure to advance research data management (RDM) and public access to research data in alignment with the goals of OAC's Cyberinfrastructure
for Public Access and Open Science (CI PAOS) program [</span><a href="https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cyberinfrastructure-public-access-open-science-ci"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C72B5;background:white">https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cyberinfrastructure-public-access-open-science-ci</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3D3E;background:white">]
and the NSF Public Access Initiative (PAI) [</span><a href="https://new.nsf.gov/public-access"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C72B5;background:white">https://new.nsf.gov/public-access</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3D3E;background:white">].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please see the publication to find out how to proceed if interested. Concept outlines, as well as questions and inquiries about project ideas, should be sent to Plato Smith (<a href="mailto:plsmith@nsf.gov">plsmith@nsf.gov</a>),
Program Director, CISE/OAC, with a copy to </span><a href="mailto:FAIROSQueries@nsf.gov"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FAIROSQueries@nsf.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">. The deadline for proposal submissions is
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tai-Yin Huang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Tai-Yin Huang, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:thuang@nsf.gov"><span style="color:#002060">thuang@nsf.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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