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Dear all:</div>
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We are in the process of updating the DesignSafe User Guides, as well as the curation resources for data publishing. The new resources include the Experimental Facility Checklist that I presented to many of you at the NHERI Council. </div>
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All of the new resources can all be found at: <a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/rw/user-guides/" id="LPlnk979362">https://www.designsafe-ci.org/rw/user-guides/</a>. We hope that you and your researchers will find these new resources helpful. Please pass
this information along to your researchers so they can become familiar with data publishing.</div>
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Regards,</div>
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Ellen</div>
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<span style=""><b><span style="">Ellen M. Rathje, Ph.D., P.E., F. ASCE </span></b></span></p>
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