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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Data Access Layer Working Group,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The <a href="https://rds.org.au/events/ivoa-2024/">Northern Spring Interop Meeting</a> will take place in Sydney, Australia from 20 – 24 May. Remote attendance will also be supported.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite you to contribute discussions on DAL related topics for the interop. These could be discussions on DAL standards either established, in development or proposed. We also encourage implementation reports from data centres using
and implementing the standards, and are particularly interested in your experiences whether you are using your own software or one of the existing implementations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please send your contributions with a speaker name, title and abstract to
<a href="mailto:james.dempsey@csiro.au">james.dempsey@csiro.au</a> and <a href="mailto:gregory.mantelet@astro.unistra.fr">
gregory.mantelet@astro.unistra.fr</a> . If you are unsure about the suitability of a talk, or are a first time contributor, please get in contact with us and we can discuss it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please provide contribution details by Friday, 26 April to allow us time to organise the talks.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">James Dempsey an Grégory Mantelet<o:p></o:p></p>
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