In 2023 the Research Data Alliance is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. We’re excited to commemorate this important milestone with our community by organising a series of international and regional events and activities dedicated to a specific theme related to research data management of relevance to the RDA community.
Read more about the RDA's 10th Anniversary and how to propose an event. For more information, contact the Community Development Manager, Connie Clare.
Upcoming events and activities
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JANUARY - 10th anniversary launch
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RDA US Podcast on Reflections from early RDA members
Françoise Genova and Andrew Treloar, former RDA Technical Advisory Board Chairs, share memories of their experience as early members of RDA and their eight-year journey together as the co-chairs of the RDA Technical Advisory Board as well as their thoughts on future directions.
Monday 9 January
FAIR Data Podcast on Identifiers
The FAIR Data Podcast provides a window into the latest trends and developments, and what's coming, and serves as a hopefully lively and entertaining resource for the growing FAIR Data community of interest. In this episode Tibor Kalman and Sven Bingert, from the GWDG in Goettingen, provide an overview of the rapidly evolving PID landscape, and insights into possible developments in the near future.
Wednesday, 18 January Rory Macneil Machine Centric Science Podcast on Identifiers
The Machine-Centric Science Podcast is about the FAIR principles in practice, for scientists who want to compound their impacts, not their errors. In this episode, we celebrate the RDA's 2023 "decade of data" and its January's focus on Identifiers via an interview with Christophe Blanchi, currently executive director at the DONA Foundation in Switzerland, which operates infrastructure for the Handle system (including DOIs) and stewards protocol specifications for identifier resolution and digital object interfacing.
Wednesday, 18 January Donny Winston FAIRPoints 'Ask me Anything' webinar on Identifiers
A discussion about what different types of identifiers are available, why are they important for creating FAIRDigital objects, how are they relevant to researchers and how to apply them and integrate them in research practices.
>>> Watch the recording and see the notes
Thursday 26 January
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FEBRUARY - FAIR data, software and hardware
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RDA US Podcast featuring the FAIR for Virtual Research Environments (VRE) Working Group
The RDA FAIR for VRE WG talk about their motivations for starting the group, as well as their challenges faced, impacts addressed, outputs produced, and how to get involved.
Monday 6 February
RDA Speed Networking Event
Want to meet more people involved in research data? All are welcome to the first Research Data Alliance (RDA) Online Speed Networking Event. Have fun chatting with others in the RDA community – colleagues both old and new. Speed networking is an energizing and powerful way to make several great connections in a short amount of time. Never participated in Speed Networking? No problem, you are not alone – come try it out!
Wednesday 15 February
UTC 16:00 - 17:00
Machine Centric Science Podcast on Software and Workflows
This podcast delves into real-life examples of how organizations and individuals in the research ecosystem are implementing the FAIR principles. Each episode explores the challenges and choices made in the process, as well as the resources used to overcome those challenges. Our goal is to share knowledge, foster communities of practice, and inspire the adoption of similar solutions across disciplines. Join us as we strive for better data management and accessibility through the FAIR principles.
Friday 17 February Donny Winston FAIRPoints 'Ask me Anything' webinar on Software and Workflows
A discussion about what the FAIRification of software and workflows look like, the available tools/infrastructures that support this process, why FAIRification is important and how it is applicable to researchers.
>>> Watch the recording and see the notes
Tuesday 21 February
10:00 - 11:30
'RDA for FAIR' community cross-fertilisation workshop
The workshop brings RDA groups and community members together with the wider research data community for a discussion about the future of FAIR data and software. Read more about the thematic community cross-fertilisation workshop series to commemorate ‘A Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of the RDA’.
Thursday 23 February
08:30-10:15
FAIR Data Podcast on Software and Workflows
This week on the FAIR Data Podcast, Rory is joined by Michael R. Crusoe, co-founder and project lead of the Common Workflow Language (CWL) project for a special edition of the podcast coming out in conjunction with the 10th anniversary celebration of the RDA, with this month being dedicated to Software!
Tuesday 28 February Rory Macneil WorldFAIR: Image sharing systems and practices in Cultural Heritage
WorldFAIR Work Package 13 (WP13) presents their landscaping report identifying how Cultural Heritage institutions engage with FAIR (examining formats and image delivery technologies). This workshop will aim to have a community discussion around this report.
Joining information will be emailed to participants prior to the meeting. If you have not received the relevant information please contact alexandra.delipalta@rda-foundation.org.
Tuesday 28 February
15:00 - 16:00
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MARCH - A Decade of Data
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A Decade of Data: RDA 20th Plenary, Gothenburg
The Research Data Alliance will celebrate its 10th Anniversary Plenary Meeting in Sweden, going back to where RDA was launched in March 2013. Following on from the success of the 19th Plenary meeting held in a hybrid format for the first time, P20 will take place in Sweden’s second-largest city – Gothenburg.
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APRIL - Health and medical data
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Fireside chat: reflections and insights from a decade of GA4GH and RDA
Join the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the RDA for a fireside chat where we will reflect on our 10th anniversaires. discuss major milstones achieved, and share future plans towards advancing open and FAIR data sharing.
Wednesday 19 April
08:00 - 08:45
Connie Clare The Research Data Alliance Post-Plenary 20 Webinar
The RDA’s Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is hosting a post-Plenary 20 webinar to share the takeaways of the breakout sessions held during the event and discuss next steps. The webinar aims to provide attendees a clearer understanding of the collaboration approaches among RDA groups, as well as an opportunity to hear directly from group chairs on their vision for future activities. The webinar agenda will mirror the RDA Pathways developed by the TAB to help community members navigate Plenary sessions, RDA groups, outputs and more.
Thursday 20 April
07:30 - 08:30
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Connie Clare 'RDA for Health and Medical Data' community cross-fertilisation workshop
The workshop brings RDA groups and community members together with the wider research data community for a discussion about the future of Health and Medical Data. Read more about the thematic community cross-fertilisation workshop series to commemorate ‘A Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of the RDA’.
Wednesday 26 April
11:00 - 12:45
Machine Centric Science Podcast on Regulatory Processes and Governance
The podcast delves into real-life examples of how organisations and individuals in the research ecosystem are implementing the FAIR principles. Each episode explores the challenges and choices made in the process, as well as the resources used to overcome those challenges. Our goal is to share knowledge, foster communities of practice, and inspire the adoption of similar solutions across disciplines. Join us as we strive for better data management and accessibility through the FAIR principles.
TBC Donny Winston FAIR Data Podcast on Regulatory Processes and Governance
The FAIR Data Podcast provides a window into the latest trends and developments, and what's coming, and serves as a hopefully lively and entertaining resource for the growing FAIR Data community of interest.
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MAY - Metadata and technical infrastructure
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Harmonizing Descriptions of Research Data Repositories
The RDA's Data Repository Attributes Working Group has been developing a list of common attributes that can be used to describe data repositories along with examples that showcase different approaches that repositories are taking to express and expose metadata about themselves. The group seeks to improve the discoverability and interoperability of repositories with registries, tools, and other infrastructure related to research data. They’re excited to outline their process and to share the draft list of repository attributes for additional community input before they submit their work for review to become an RDA Recommendation towards the end of the year.
Wednesday 3 May
12:30 - 13:30
Michael Witt DDI, FAIR, and the emergent role of active metadata: a CODATA-DDI Alliance webinar for the RDA Decade of Data
The DDI community has provided metadata standards and encouraged data reuse for more than two decades among the social, behavioural and economic sciences, public health research, and within the world of official statistics. This workshop describes the key metadata approaches and data management tools they have developed, and how these have changed over time to address the needs of FAIR data sharing, both within and across domain boundaries. The workshop will be of interest to those both in the traditional DDI community and to those who are interested in how FAIR implementation has emerged within a mature data-sharing culture.
Thursday 4 May
14:00 - 16:00
Understanding Decentralised Science (DeSci): Blockchain inspired approaches for research communities
From the very first scientific letters to large scale infrastructure projects like CERN, scientists, governments and the public have been debating scientific reform. How can we improve quality of life with better, more inclusive science with reduced waste? The phenomenal success of blockchain technology since the inception of bitcoin 2009 has catalysed a new interest in open standards, practical applications of digital signatures and new ways of coordinating human behaviour. The DeSci movement has condensed this effort into a set of ideas and protocols that aim to revolutionise how science is funded, published, monetised and validated. Learn about how to tokenize your IP, get rewarded for data access, review and participation and how to set your own research agenda. Join us to look beyond the hype for the real potential of genuine reform.
>>> Register here (in-person event)
Saturday 13 May
16:00 - 20:00
Dan Bolser Expanding Scholix to support software: your input required
The RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) working group has generated a Scholix metadata schema, helped implement this schema in multiple Scholix hubs and other infrastructure providers, and built a community that provides data citation services. The group has been in maintenance mode since 2019 and continues to work on Scholix adoption with repositories, publishers and other industry groups, along with work with the software community over the past year to explore expanding the schema to support software linking and citation. This event will discuss: (i) Background on/history of the development of the Scholix schema; (ii) Motivations for adding software; (iii) A first draft of the modified schema; (iv) Instances/examples of the schema showing how software is captured and what kinds of relationships to data and articles could be captured; and; (v) Where we are with data and how best to support best practices in the schema
Tuesday 16 May
09:00 - 10:00
Rachael Lammey Learning resources minimal metadata application profile
The minimal metadata set identifies key characteristics of learning resources that are important for:
- content creators and adapters to include with the resources they create
- learning resource catalogue and registry service providers
- institutions that publish learning resources on their websites to expose when they provide information about the resources in their collectionsIn this 1 hr webinar the Education and Training on Handling of Research Data IG will introduce the application profile of the minimal metadata set and select practitioners will present their implementation of it. Afterwards, the participants will have the opportunity to discuss the different perspectives, needs and motivations for the implementation of the application profile.
Wednesday 17 May
15:00 - 16:00
Katarzyna Biernacka Steps towards building interoperability in research tools using PIDs
The lack of interoperability between tools presents a significant barrier to streamlining research workflows throughout the research lifecycle. In this workshop we will present an outline of a series of design and integration guidelines for leveraging the persistent identifier and open metadata infrastructure to build interoperability features on research tools, to make research workflows FAIR. We invite the community to join the discussion and provide their perspectives and use cases to make the guidelines more adoptable.
Tuesday 23 May
16:00 - 17:00
Rory Macneil RDA-US: 10th Anniversary Community Meeting
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year! RDA-US is using this milestone as an opportunity to celebrate the community of US members who have contributed leadership, support, and ideas to numerous RDA outputs and guidance documents over the decade. The RDA-US community is strong -- representing substantial expertise, experience, and commitment that can serve as a collective voice. In partnership with volunteers and organizations across the world, RDA-US has developed consensus solutions and approaches to research data sharing that have been tested and contextualized in various settings locally and internationally (e.g., policies, approaches, infrastructure architecting, tool requirements).
Please join us for an afternoon showcase of new and existing projects in the RDA-US community. This offers an opportunity for RDA-US community members to discuss recent policy changes, current proposed RDA-US and explore further collaborations. If you are excited by the positive change that RDA-US can build to the community, we hop to see you there.
Tuesday 23 May
16:30 - 20:30 UTC /
12:30 - 16:30 EDTRob Quick FAIRPoints 'Ask me Anything' webinar on Machine Actionability
A discussion about what is needed to achieve machine actionability (e.g. semantics, metadata, operations, types), why automation is required in research, how researchers create machine actionable research outputs, and the available tools to facilitate application.
Thursday 25 May
12:00 - 13:00
Sara El-Gebali Atelier en français sur la Certification CoreTrustSeal
Workshop in French on CoreTrustSeal CertificationCet atelier, proposé par RDA France, incluera une présentation de l'histoire de CoreTrustSeal et du rôle que la RDA y a joué, une discussion de la manière d'aborder la certification, des critères de CoreTrustSeal et de leur évolution récente, et une lecture guidée de la CoreTrustSeal Extended Guidance 2023-2025.
The workshop, proposed by RDA France, will be held in French. It will include a presentation of CoreTrustSeal history and the role RDA played in it, a discussion of the way to tackle certification, of CoreTrustSeal criteria and of their recent evolution, and a guided reading of the CoreTrustSeal Extended Guidance 2023-2025.
Tuesday 30 May
13:00 - 15:00
Francoise Genova 'RDA for metadata and technical infrastructure' community cross-fertilisation workshop
The workshop brings RDA groups and community members together with the wider research data community for a discussion about the future of persistent identifers (PIDs) within the May theme of metadata and technical infrastructure. Read more about the thematic community cross-fertilisation workshop series to commemorate ‘A Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of the RDA’.
Wednesday, 31 May
07:00 - 08:45
Virtual Research Environments: A Vision for the Next 10 Years
The future for virtual research environments (VREs) warrants exploration as we consider the possibilities that extend well beyond research and high-performance computing into new interfaces, applications and user communities. In this discussion, we look retrospectively at the successes of representative gateways thus far. This serves to highlight existing gaps VREs need to overcome in areas such as accessibility, usability and interoperability, and in the need for broader outreach by drawing insights from technology adoption research. We make the case for the VRE community to be more intentional in engaging with users to encourage adoption and implementation, especially in the area of educational usage. This discussion serves as a roadmap for a vision of VREs in the next ten years.
Wednesday 31 May
18:00 - 19:00
Sandra Gesing Machine Centric Science Podcast on Machine Actionability
The podcast delves into real-life examples of how organisations and individuals in the research ecosystem are implementing the FAIR principles. Each episode explores the challenges and choices made in the process, as well as the resources used to overcome those challenges. Our goal is to share knowledge, foster communities of practice, and inspire the adoption of similar solutions across disciplines. Join us as we strive for better data management and accessibility through the FAIR principles.
TBC Donny Winston FAIR Data Podcast on Machine Actionability
The FAIR Data Podcast provides a window into the latest trends and developments, and what's coming, and serves as a hopefully lively and entertaining resource for the growing FAIR Data community of interest.
TBC Rory Macneil -
JUNE - Agriculture and environmental data
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Data Conversations: Working with (big) data sets
Open data, open methods, and reproducible and transparent research are increasingly endorsed by funders, publishers, institutions, and learned societies. But what does making your research open, transparent, and reproducible mean in practice? Where can one learn open skills?
This edition of the Data Conversations will focus on (big) data sets; of course some of the lessons learned from big data sets are generalisable into RDM best practices. After getting an idea about large datasetis in general, we will get an introduction to Zarr and its community. Zarr let’s you store your large arrays in chunked and compressed manner. Zarr is based on a open specification which enables to have implementations in various programming languages. NetCDF has a convention on top of Zarr specification known as NCZarr, which is implemented in C and Java.
Come and share your stories and hear others.
Wednesday 15 June
10:00 - 11:00 UTC / 12:00 - 13:00 CET
Lena Karvovskaya Historic agricultural and environmental data: Facilitating discovery of, access to, and use of analog data
This webinar will bring together people from various institutions to talk about their experience working on projects that dealt with how they worked to increase discovery, access and use of historical environmental and agricultural datasets. Panelists will be asked to respond to a series of questions covering topics, such as: datasets most at risk, challenges to working with these kinds of data, scalability of this work, resources for others to take on projects such as these, opportunities for collaborative work, and more.
Wednesday 21 June
15:00 - 16:30 UTC /
10:00 - 11:30 CST
Shannon Farrell The Hugging Face
The last ten years have seen machine learning making an increasingly significant impact across all areas of business and society. Machine learning also increasingly plays a role in producing new knowledge across the science and the humanities. The Hugging Face hub is a repository for sharing machine learning models, datasets and demos. It currently has over 150,000 models and 25,000 datasets made openly available for others to use and build on. These models cover a range of tasks, i.e. text classification and modalities, i.e. text, image, audio etc. This hub aims to help democratize access to machine learning. The open science movement has broadened the scope of which scholarly outputs are considered important to emphasize the data and software underpinning research findings. This scope will again need to be expanded to include machine learning models. In this webinar, Hugging Face's Machine Learning Librarian, Daniel van Strien, will discuss how Hugging Face works to ensure machine learning models can be more easily found, used and built on by others, i.e. how they can follow the FAIR principles.
Monday 26 June
13:00 - 14:00
Sara El-Gebali WorldFAIR Case Study on Plant-pollinator Interactions Data
A webinar providing an overview of what WorldFAIR WP10 (Agricultural Biodiversity) have produced at the discovery phase: FAIR assessments, good practices, tools and examples to create, manage and share data related to plant-pollinator interactions.
About the WorldFAIR Project: In the WorldFAIR project, CODATA ( the Committee on Data of the International Science Council) and RDA (the Research Data Alliance), work with a set of 11 disciplinary and cross-disciplinary case studies to advance implementation of the FAIR principles and, in particular, to improve interoperability and reusability of digital research objects, including data. Particular attention is paid to the articulation of an interoperability framework for each case study and research domain. The core of the WorldFAIR project are the 11 case studies, which represent a wide range of sciences, communities and challenges, with global geographical coverage.
Monday 26 June
13:00 - 14:00 UTC
ARDC Planet Research Data Commons webinar
Join the Australian Research Data Commons for an exciting opportunity to explore the development of the Planet Research Data Commons, where shared data and digital research tools are revolutionising our ability to confront the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. From adapting to climate change to saving endangered species and reversing ecosystem degradation, our mission is to empower researchers and decision makers alike with the data and tools they need to make a real difference.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Research Data Alliance and their Working Groups there are many practical approaches to making data and tools interoperable, which has laid the foundations for the creation of the Planet Research Data Commons. At this upcoming webinar, you'll have the chance to hear directly from the Director of the Planet Research Data Commons, as well as other key figures who have played a vital role in making earth sciences, environmental, and agricultural data FAIR.
Join us and discover the benefits of learning about the Research Data Alliance, where collaboration, innovation, and passion are at the heart of everything.
05:00 - 06:00 UTC
15:00 - 16:00 AEST
Hamish Holewa 'RDA for earth and environmental data' community cross-fertilisation workshop
The workshop brings RDA groups and community members together with the wider research data community for a discussion about the future of earth and environmental data. Read more about the thematic community cross-fertilisation workshop series to commemorate ‘A Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of the RDA’.
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JULY - Research data policy
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'RDA for research data policy' community cross-fertilisation workshop
The workshop brings RDA groups and community members together with the wider research data community for a discussion about the future of research data policy. Read more about the thematic community cross-fertilisation workshop series to commemorate ‘A Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of the RDA’.
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AUGUST - Disciplinary data
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ARDC Thematic Research Data Commons webinar
A 1 hour webinar talking about the generic Thematic RDC approach as a way to (i) engage with the needs of specific research communities and (ii) create enduring infrastructure, content and services
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RDA's Engagement with Disciplines
A 1 hr webinar describing the findings of an EOSC Future project to understand the factors influencing disciplinary awareness and engagement in the European Open Science Cloud, in particular to develop an understanding of why some communities are not engaged in EOSC. The review will summarize feedback gathered from the RDA membership and other stakeholders on community infrastructure, tools, training materials, and other resources that can be accessed through EOSC. The webinar will also showcase new disciplinary webpages created for RDA and designed to explain the benefits of RDA to disciplinary communities broadly.
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Beth Knazook 'RDA for interdisciplinary data' community cross-fertilisation workshop
The workshop brings RDA groups and community members together with the wider research data community for a discussion about the future of interdisciplinary data. Read more about the thematic community cross-fertilisation workshop series to commemorate ‘A Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of the RDA’.
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SEPTEMBER - Sustainable development and responsible research
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Building Responsible Open Science Frameworks
This workshop examines the needs for ethics and human rights frameworks to support Open Science that engenders the trust of society while providing evidence for democratic and inclusive public policy. The workshop is intended for scientists across disciplines, including the social sciences and the humanities, as well as for those building software and applications, and those at the interface between data and society.
Thursday 28 September
FAIRPoints 'Ask me Anything' webinar on Equitable and Transparent Access to Information and Knowledge
A discussion about the role of infrastructure for open and equitable access of information, how this reflects in design decisions and how open and FAIR relate to or mean to the rest of the world.
Thursday 26 September
10:00 - 12:00
Machine Centric Science Podcast on Equitable and Transparent Access to Information and Knowledge
The podcast delves into real-life examples of how organisations and individuals in the research ecosystem are implementing the FAIR principles. Each episode explores the challenges and choices made in the process, as well as the resources used to overcome those challenges. Our goal is to share knowledge, foster communities of practice, and inspire the adoption of similar solutions across disciplines. Join us as we strive for better data management and accessibility through the FAIR principles.
TBC Donny Winston FAIR Data Podcast on Equitable and Transparent Access to Information and Knowledge
The FAIR Data Podcast provides a window into the latest trends and developments, and what's coming, and serves as a hopefully lively and entertaining resource for the growing FAIR Data community of interest.
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OCTOBER - A festival of data
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International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data, Salzburg
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are delighted to announce International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data. IDW 2023 will be hosted by the University of Salzburg, Austria, through its Data Science and Geoinformatics departments, supported by the Governor of Salzburg and with assistance from the Austrian Academy of Sciences - GIScience and the European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information. International Data Week brings together a global community of data scientists and data stewards; researchers from all domains; data, interoperability and informatics experts from all fields (including geoinformatics, bioinformatics, cheminformatics etc); industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers.
Monday 23 to Thursday 26 October
- NOVEMBER - Research data management support and education
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'RDA for research data management support and education' community cross-fertilisation workshop
The workshop brings RDA groups and community members together with the wider research data community for a discussion about the future of research data management support and education. Read more about the thematic community cross-fertilisation workshop series to commemorate ‘A Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of the RDA’.
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DECEMBER - Anniversary highlights
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RDA 10th Anniversary Highlight Reel
A celebratory activity to commemorate the RDA's 10th Anniversary showcasing the highlights of the year.
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