 Well, I am Alicia López Medina, I work in University UNED, which is a national distance education university in Spain, and I am the head of a unit which is called Technology Innovation, and in my unit I am responsible for the institutional repository. This is a good news because that means that in my university repositories are related to innovation, which means that things are changing in the way things are happening in the university, research, education, and there is a need of a new system to support processes, information processes in the university. So I am a librarian, a repository manager, and I am the executive director of COAR, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, and today I am here representing COAR, and I am going to talk about these challenges for open access repositories from an international perspective, from the effort we are doing in COAR to create support, these new needs of management of information. So I am going to start, how do I move this here? So I would like to start by, do you hear me? Why? Okay, it's better. Now look, I'll leave this down. So we are talking about data, but I would like to frame this need of data in what has changed in research. In research. I think it doesn't work. So do you hear me? Yes. Okay, so data are important, but the thing is internet, and this is obvious, and we say this all the time, has made a revolutionary opportunity for many things, especially in our case for research. So research is intensive use of data, of course, but it's also, as you said, global, and it's collaborative, computationally intensive. That means that research is doing by machines, analyzing and processing all the information. And it's also virtual. This collaboration is virtual. It's done online through global collaboration. So this is an important stress for us responsible for supporting this research in terms of information management. So this means that there is another way we have to create the objects that are a result of this kind of research. We have to find another way of providing access of information, providing support for reusing, etc. So the opportunity is this open science we are talking about today, which means that this collaborative and computational intensive and global and virtual collaborative are open. So means they can share. They mind share tools, results, and everything publication, data, software. You mentioned also the question of software. So one thing there that you can see here, and as you mentioned already, for research, it's not only data. I will talk about that later. So the idea I wanted to get in this open science concept is that the objective of open research to be open is to make it more efficient, more transparent, more trustworthy. So the opportunity for scientists now is that they can do things that before they were not able to do it or it would have taken 100 years to do it. So it has to be using the opportunity of new technologies and internet. So I would like to propose you a broader understanding of open access and what is driving open access. It's also, yes, the journals are very expensive and we have to look for a business model and stuff, but for a broader perspective, open access is more because e-research and the requirement of e-research need open access, so the full exploitation of internet. And I will talk also about this open access intelligent. I like that very much, the intelligence of opens. So repositories, I would like to frame repositories, open access repositories in this broader picture, not only in gold or green or publication only, but in the whole picture of research, the whole matter of needs or the whole cycle of research. And I believe that repositories, those systems that manage digital information, we can make a change because so far I feel like we are talking very much in a transition period, but we are very much stuck in the print area. We haven't gone, well, most many researchers did, but to the native digital world where things are happening in a different way and concepts are also changing. So I think we can change the way research is done, not change maybe, but support the change in research by exposing rich knowledge-oriented information assets. Because remember that repositories are systems to manage to do things with digital objects. So this is a very naive, but I think graphic of research cycle. I took it from Leo Beicher. I don't know if you know him. Many years ago he came to Madrid and he showed it. And I think it's a very nice expression of what is happening here. You see this collaboration, this global and digital community, what we have here is a bunch of data. Data for me is only from the repository manager's perspective. I would like to broader also the concept of data, not only data as understood by your presentation, but data as models, publications, say even simulations, versions, you know, and they have to use those global data integrated as a one object because they have to be linked otherwise they don't have meaning and they have to use them in operating tools, in private or shared environments and the collaborative work spaces between that before publication there is a world. So not only happens when something is published, the story begins before that and a lot of things are happening before the final publication is actually published and repository we have to follow the whole workflow of research and here we can have open access to intermediate presentation, I mean publication, this is final and draft enhanced publication which means in this new research what is a publication? It's not anymore an article, it's a complex object made out of all these pieces that the data what they wrote, the graphics, the simulation, the software they used all of these is as you said and I agree completely dynamic, they are okay, they comment, they change, they process, they reuse. So this is an opportunity for repositories, data repositories, publication repositories to support these complex objects and new models of use those objects. So a Berlin declaration in 2003 they told us already how to do that. So we have internet and the technology to make the global and interactive representation of human knowledge and to do that we need content and software they must be freely accessible and introprable. So for me and for the point of view repositories which are the responsible to take care of these objects for the researchers to use them, this is what we have to do not only open repositories, we would never sell repositories, web resources all of these repositories that are responsible for managing objects but what we have to do is to make them open access intelligence to the machine. So what means intelligence means that they are linked that means they are related in a way that structure in a way that the internal structure is machine readable so we can make this link between the data, the publication even we can go further as we use the key setting in the data data is also the name of the researcher and we are working in an author ID, persistent identifiers and there is also the possibility for us to go the object with the rights of using that object or the provenance or the versions or the comments or the different metadata to use in different systems so this is the representation of what the internet Berlin declaration they said is the global virtual representation of knowledge the key point is that every piece of the knowledge has to be linked has to be linked so this is where we have really a job to do open access repositories first we have to have the content open for humans of course with this quality that we were listening to this morning but then we have to open this to the machine because the power of the new research is because agents and software and intelligent robots are going to use these intelligent objects we are preparing and structuring in our repositories to do marvelous things things that can challenge this climate, weather I put this example because it always looks like e-research is only for science but e-research is also for humanity and social science so this is an example on how different sources of data can be structured in a way that the machines are going to ask this we are going to be able to ask this question that he said, I don't remember the question but it was a very intelligent question and the machine can understand that and answer so because underneath we are there the repository is managing this object in a very intelligent way semantic web actually I'm talking about so to realize this potential to create this global knowledge object to use and reuse a key issue is interoperability this is an interoperability workshop and we need also and it has been mentioned here a community we need to collaborate closely together repositories to feel that we are a community and as we are only one part of the wider infrastructure we also need to engage with the other parts of this e-research infrastructure so this is why we have created the Confederation of Open Access Repositories which is an international nonprofit association you see we are already 100 institutions and we are represented in many on the continents of the world and we have created it because we need a community we have to create a repository community in order to lead and to advance in creating this network so we have here I mentioned it because we have many representatives here from Turkey that are becoming members of COAR it means Gultekin it's around here there Gultekin now we have future members from Turkey that's the way so what we want to do as a community we want to create this infrastructure of repository open access infrastructure to facilitate that a better visibility of research results but also a greater application that means to facilitate researchers to do better things and more things with this object and we base it on interoperability and international cooperation so now how many times do I have left? so the first focus we have as organization of course as open access organization nothing is possible if we don't have objects in the repository has been said today repository without content all these marvelous plans of the semantic global representation we cannot do it because we don't have the object so one of our focus in COAR is to give ideas to the international community about how to increase the deposit of objects in our in the repository so we have a report that is coming up soon the chair of this report is Catherine Sheer she is from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and this is some of them that have been already mentioned strategies to improve the deposit in the repository and this is an international so what we have is we have gathered all the experiences in different parts of the world Japanese are very good in that they have a wonderful program I don't have time to show you but it's very effective and then there is COAR is promoting and supporting this is called Open Access Agreement and License Task Force so this is multi-organization initiative I will show you later the members and the idea is like we as a library well some people here are librarians so we make agreements in consortia or national or just institutional when we buy or we subscribe the journals and databases and we sign agreements and process in those agreements so this Open Access License Task Force wants to look for new models and innovative ways of including in those agreements Open Access process like for instance the condition that's the license that we subscribe the journals that our authors in our institution they are allowed to put the articles in the repository without paying any extra so I will show you who is participating in this as you see there are COAR members but there are people not from COAR so this is an independent task force which is supported by COAR you see for instance the McStan Digital Library Neal from GISC which is over there GISC is a member of this task force and the World Bank publication so we support also the community because as being international there are different levels of development in repositories we have these initiatives Irina Kuchma is the chair of this working group which is dedicated to training and to health and support we have taking ideas from open air like with the Health Desk a little bit and the National Portal we have online workshop lately the last one Eloi was doing an interoperability webinar and also we provide training materials from all over the world so it's international international outreach very quickly I wanted to show you that we are in as many place as we can in the world so we have been doing workshop oh how do I go it's because I don't have my glasses yeah thank you very much so we've been like in very intense in a workshop it was Irina it was Eloi who was from here well they were in very intense we were also in the conference another workshop about interoperability we were in Cuba Luba is doing great things now developing in the Caribbean regional network we have been twice two years in Cuba giving them advice, support, training and now they are starting really with repository network we were also in Bangalore in India and in Colombia and China you see we are really developing a very international action we create community also with our animal meeting next year will be now it's going to be in Istanbul and at the beginning this animal meeting was only a general assembly but now it's becoming also a conference we have got papers and we are going to organize tutorials Jochen which is over there is going to talk about new metrics for data usage in repositories okay we are we are organizing these tutorials then later I want to go the support for region this is a very important initiative in the region of Latin America and we have really being an important support for them and then this is private because it has been released today we are offering a repository observatory because we want to keep this is a very evolving situation repositories are changing everything is changing so quickly that to make the decisions you need to have a little strategic vision so we would like to provide repository community with this strategic vision a little bit of scanning the horizon and see what is coming up and what could be the best option for them and the direction so for this one we have interviewed Michelle Kimpton I suppose you all know Michelle Kimpton she is from Dura Space and she is talking about what is going to happen for you in this space and Fedora for the next years what are the strategic direction and I think this is important for us because we are this space and Fedora users and there is also well, GoFind is briefing about new projects, new initiatives that are interesting to offer new perspectives of what repositories could offer so I invite you to take a look at the new repository observatory so interoperability which is the subject today actually so this is one of the main actions of COAR because everything actually if you want to create infrastructure you need to base it in interoperability so it's in our strategic direction it has been always a important focus the main results to now is this current state of open access repository interoperability I don't know if you had the chance to read it and it has been needed by Eloy and it presents an overview actually of this is the the first part so the idea is to have this area of possible services and what kind of initiatives and protocols you can use if you are a repository manager and you have to take decisions so I'm going to go from the very simple OAMP image which could look to you very obvious but there are countries in the world that they don't know exactly what is that and they are now doing these portals and they're harvesting and they need to know also this and we go down to this OAMP which is the frontier towards the semantic web which will come this new more sophisticated complex objects in the next part of the report Eloy and this is nice picture isn't it we signed a Memorandum of Understanding last I don't know Pablo November November, yeah very important because as I said we are only part of the infrastructure for research and the increase there is this investigation databases that we have in Iowa university and research institutions they give the contextual also information about our repository documents so I think this is going to be a very good partnership we will talk tomorrow about how we organize the collaboration but I think it's a very good news that the two communities get together and we have a we can offer the first of all a seamless workflow for our researchers they are very bored when they have to push buttons and upload things and we make it easier and we say don't worry you only have to go here and push the bottom and the rest don't worry we will do it for you so that will be that will be very good and then we also want to engage with the data community so we plan to go to Gothenburg and for the research data alliance and first plenary and we might participate in a working group we have to discuss that but we want data publication linking I think I believe everything is about linking in this world so we are going yes today I'm talking about the semantic so we will be there and we will discuss time so I'm finishing because I wanted to show you all the partnership we are open in core with different parts of the infrastructure it's also important as I told you I'm in the library and I am a repository manager so I'm a librarian and a repository manager at the same time and this is really giving us the librarians a new role in the university and I think it's it's also important for having an international dimension and I go there and I go there and this is from I go I finish so I invite you to become an active in the global community and thank you very much any question for