<div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues, </font></span></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are pleased to announce the first workshop organized by the European Ontology Network (EUON). This event will take place on September 25th, 2014 in Amsterdam back to back with the </span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Research Data Alliance</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 4th Plenary meeting (22-24 Sept) and 3rd </span><a href="http://www.eudat.eu/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EUDAT</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> conference (25-26 Sept).</span></font></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EUON aims to bring together experts in Ontology and Semantics working across any discipline including in science, social sciences, humanities and arts. Member are from both academia and industry. EUON aims to enable the discussion of technical aspects, share know-how and domain-specific good practice and form partnerships and collaborations. EUON is free to join: </span><a href="http://www.euon.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.euon.org</span></a></font></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The workshop will feature guest speakers, a panel discussion, presentations from attendees, poster session and a networking session.</font></span></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite authors to submit abstracts for presentation at the EUON workshop within any of the themes listed on the website </span><a href="http://www.eudat.eu/euon/euon-2014-workshop" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.eudat.eu/euon/euon-2014-workshop</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> . We encourage submissions from any domain; abstracts do not need to represent original work.</span></font></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Important Dates</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2014</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Notification: 15 July 2014</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Workshop: 25 September 2014</font></span></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Submission Process</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The maximum length for abstracts is 350 words. Please submit using the following EasyChair link:</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euon2014" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(190,31,36);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euon2014</font></span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join EUON</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please visit </span><a href="http://www.euon.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.euon.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to join the network.</span></font></p>
<p style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam. </span></font></p>
<p style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely yours,</span></font></p>
<p style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yann</span></font></p>
<p style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="line-height:normal">-- </span></p><p style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="line-height:normal">Yann Le Franc, PhD</span></p>
</span><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div>Freelance scientist<br></div><div>Consulting in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neurosciences.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Co-chair of the EUropean Ontology Network</div><div>Co-chair of the EUDAT semantic workgroup</div><div>Founder of the e-Neuroscience Consulting Network<br></div><div>Affiliated with the University of Antwerp, Belgium<br>
</div><div>Coordinator of the INCF Belgian Node. </div><div><br></div><div>Residence des Courtilles </div><div>Batiment H2</div><div>153, rue Oberkampf</div><div>75011 PARIS</div><div>Office: <a href="tel:%2B33.177.10.16.34" value="+33177101634" target="_blank">+33.177.10.16.34</a></div>
<div>Phone: <a value="+33612903756" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+33.612.90.37.56</a></div>
<div>email: <a href="mailto:ylefranc@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">ylefranc@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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