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Two actions are now needed urgently to prepare for the User
Involvement Group meeting in Aix-en-Provence at the annual
conference, if you haven't already:<br>
<br>
1. Someone needs to sign up from each country to attend the meeting,
via the webform at <a
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMXmx9V8MZXxq7lrWrOwNQjpQm2tcPUnb74xjanFjbcEEStw/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMXmx9V8MZXxq7lrWrOwNQjpQm2tcPUnb74xjanFjbcEEStw/viewform<br>
</a><br>
2. Please complete the webform at <a
href="https://www.clarin.eu/group-page/webform-submitting-user-involvement-activities">https://www.clarin.eu/group-page/webform-submitting-user-involvement-activities
</a>with outline information on all of your user involvement
activities. The main business of the meeting will be to aggregate
and review this information, and it is needed for the annual report
on activities this year at the conference. If you want your country
to be represented in the conference presentation on user
involvement, please fill in the form!<br>
<br>
Furhter details are given again below, and please get in touch if
you have any questions.<br>
<br>
As you know, a meeting of the CLARIN User Involvement Group, with
participation invited from all CLARIN countries, will take place as
a pre-conference workshop at the CLARIN Annual Conference 2016, in
Aix-en-Provence, 9:00 to 11:15 on Wednesday 26 October. The meeting
will have the topic 'Measuring Engagement, Usage and Impact of
CLARIN in the Humanities and Social Sciences', and will be a
practical workshop on recording, measuring, aggregating and
disseminating evidence of the uptake and added value of the CLARIN
infrastructure. This will be an important event for gathering
evidence for the CLARIN annual reports, and we hope that at least
one person from each CLARIN member country will attend.<br>
<br>
Participants will need to arrive in Aix on Tuesday 25 October in
order to be there in time for the meeting. The meeting will take
place at 9:00 before the NCF meeting, so it will be possible for
national coordinators to attend.<br>
<br>
You will have seen that the CLARIN ERIC webpages have been updated
to a new design. There is now a new landing page for user
involvement activities, with links to key documents. This can be
found at:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.clarin.eu/user-involvement">https://www.clarin.eu/user-involvement</a><br>
<br>
The best way to start preparing for the event in October is to
ensure that our records for user involvement activities in your
country are up <br>
to date. Please let us know what has been happening since the last
annual conference via the webform at:<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://www.clarin.eu/group-page/webform-submitting-user-involvement-activities"> https://www.clarin.eu/group-page/webform-submitting-user-involvement-activities
</a><br>
(also linked from the page above)<br>
<br>
Or send me details if you already have records online or in another
format. Please get in touch if you have any questions.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
Martin<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Martin Wynne
IT Services, University of Oxford
Oxford e-Research Centre
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC
National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK
+44 1865 283352</pre>
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