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From: "Greenberg, Jane" janeg@email.unc.edu Subject: Please participate (very brief survey!) for data contributors, curators, administrators, repository developers Date: May 17, 2013 1:45:53 PM EDT To: Bryan pbryan.heidorn@gmail.com, "Moen, William" William.Moen@unt.edu, Hilmar Lapp hlapp@nescent.org

Hola guys.. this survey is about the use of controlled vocabularies, and comes out of HIVE work, connected w/DataONE and DFC datanets. We’d love to reach the GBIF community. Would one of you be able to forward? We’d be grateful.

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On behalf of Jane Greenberg, Director of Metadata Research Center -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings all, (Please participate, and feel free to forward to other relevant lists) The following survey examines controlled vocabulary use and challenges. The survey is for data contributors, curators, administrators, and/or repository developers.

Completing the survey takes approximately 10 minutes (or less) to complete. To complete the survey, please click the following link: https://unc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3fU0xOeRbH6jntb. NOTE: If you are unable to click on the link directly, please type the entire link into the address or location field at the top of your web browser, and press the ENTER key on your keyboard to access the survey. The survey is supported by a US DataNet/DataONE supplement to explore controlled vocabulary use within and across a broad spectrum of data repositories, including but not limited to the U.S. DataNet initiatives.

Sincerely, Chelcie Rowell

---------------------------------------------------------------- Chelcie Rowell Research Assistant, Metadata Research Center School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chelcie@live.unc.edu | 770.862.0750