 I'm not very confident in talking in English, so I'm going to read. I hope you don't fell asleep. So we are presenting this presentation, Fostering Fair and Open Data in South American Archaeology, the Argentinian case. Good afternoon to everyone. We want to thank the session organization for letting us to participate here. The aim of our presentation is to bring within the scope of research an issue that has been developed over the last nine years in South America, particularly in Argentina, fostering the implementation of digital corpora through the use of digital repositories and raising awareness of the importance of preserving primary data generated within research programs publicly funded. This means the creation of a digital data corpora of archaeological things becoming entangled in a network of researchers and institutions. The production of knowledge is often tied to matters that do not necessarily have to do with the ability that researchers have to do their work, but to the constraints that produce issues related to public policies on the management of the generated data. This can affect negatively or positively the development of digital corpora in science in general. However, the Latin American countries have a long history related to the development of national and international initiatives focused on the study and improvement of infrastructures aimed at allowing open access to data generated by research. In fact, and already focusing on the objective of this paper, Latin American countries are leaders in the development of open access to this type of data. However, when we talk about data, we don't necessarily mean about data generated from the archaeological discipline. In 2018, we participated in a round table at the meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, where we present some ideas that we're going to introduce today. These refer to a model or a way of doing science that differs in many cases of the models from North America and some European countries. This means the state pays everything in doing open access. In this sense, in Argentina, we must recognize that the majority of archaeological research is funded by the state. In particular, by an institution that is called CONICET, which is the Argentina's National Research Council, similar to the French Center National de la Research Scientifique, or CNRS, the Italian Consiglio Nacional de la Researche, or the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, or CECI. This financing includes the salaries of researchers, some types of infrastructure, equipment and grants. In this sense, the citizens of the country are the ones who, through their taxes, pay for the data generated through scientific research and, of course, archaeological research. This is interesting, since it has laid the foundations for the enactment of a national law on the use of data generated through these structures. The law promulgated in 2016 and regulated the same year establishes that the primary data generated through these state structures, which is CONICET, or public universities, must be available to the public through institutional repositories. And doubly, this, it may be seen as an advantage over other countries in which there is no such legislation. Since 2009, we have been working with several institutions of the Argentinean scientific system in order to establish criteria that allows this data generated through public financing to be protected, preserved, used and reused for the development of new scientific knowledge. This has been done in general for the disciplines group in what we know as social sciences and the humanities, and that, of course, includes archaeology. When we talk about e-infrastructures in countries like Argentina, we have to think that many of them have been designed for different purposes and that, in general, they behave as multifunctional structures. This means that they are not only dedicated to data protection, but also fulfill other functions. Here we can mention the case of the IT infrastructure of one of our universities, the National University of Córdoba, which has clusters of processes that are used for various activities such as image servers, human resources management and financial software, and also the institutional digital repository or the open access journal platform of the same university. This ecosystem is where our research infrastructure is integrated, all connected with optical fiber lines and satellite connections developed by the Argentinean state. In this sense, the hardware is available, as well as the connectivity to achieve the implementation of what we call a network of national repositories. In this regard, in 2015, the digital archaeology program was created, which has been one of the key agents in the process of developing an infrastructure for repositories of research data in Argentinean archaeology. Also, we encourage the discussion underneath for the collection of scattered knowledge to inches, digital repositories and online databases. During the last 10 years, we have developed a project to digitize archaeological material and associated documentary archives that is pioneered at the national level, and that has allowed us to show in other research teams the need to protect, preserve, conserve, use and reuse data generated within the framework of archaeological research projects. This, of course, includes digital data born digitally in the framework of these current projects as well as the digitization of older data. In this sense, the transformation of texts that are only in analog format on paper to digital media has allowed the rediscovery of data and information that in general will not have been used in modern research if it had not been translated into this new digital format. In this sense, there are several examples about the creation of databases by adding and reducing all data, such as the database of archaeological sites in Córdoba, which you can see now in the slide, or, for example, the archaeological database of northwestern Argentina, or the bioarchaeological database developed to a national scale. This proliferation, the proliferation of radiocarbon dating databases that we are currently integrated into a large national base, can also be site. It is clear that none of these bases are available in open access yet, and this will need to be tackled. Since 2010, several initiatives have been carried out in Argentina in order to establish the basis of repositories dedicated to preserving and sharing data of scientific interest. Archaeology, as a scientific discipline, has been represented in those spaces by the Digital Archaeology Program, which in 2016 established the first thematic repository dedicated to archaeological data. Following the ADS model, databases, images, publications, cartography, and great literature are managed, preserved, and host among other types of digital objects. Three years after this milestone, the Digital Archaeology Program, which is a partner of Ariane Neuplace, together with the Williams Foundation from Argentina and Pony Set, have begun to work on a program made at bringing about interest in the subject of repositories by offering the possibility of generating new spaces for including new information in those already available. This task based in the notions of open access, open science, and data furnace has just begun, but it appears promising and promising. This first steps has undoubtedly changed at the national level the way of seeing, using and preserving archaeological data. At this point, and from a meeting we had in October 2017 at Pony Set in Buenos Aires along with Julian Richards from ADS and the participation of researchers, science managers, and officials of the Ministry of Science, is that the need to move forward in the creation of a national network that allowed the integration of data that researchers had begun to digitize or that was in the process of doing so was raised. One of the first activities we had during the creation of this national network was the need for the data to comply with the fair principles. That is to say that the data in the first instance could be traceable in a fulfilled condition of being accessible, the metadata must allow to be harvested by several systems, and finally that these datasets can be reusable by the community. During the last year, this national network was consolidated through various face-to-face meetings in Buenos Aires that incorporated archaeology from several geographies of Argentina and that carry out their daily activities thousands of kilometers away. In fact, the researchers that make up the network are located from the north end of Argentina to the last city that allows our continent to the south. This implies about 4,000 kilometers of distance between the farthest points. Therefore, in addition to the face-to-face meetings, we have established virtual communication channels through various video conferencing platforms and other more popular ones such as the various text messaging platform through cell phones. This is causing a great impact not only at the level of the archaeological practice from digital environments but also in terms of personal and interpersonal relationships within this network. This has allowed the network to become a great attractor of new members interested in the development of digital archaeology. That should lie, we have the possibility of holding a round table as a part of the 20th National Congress of Argentinian Archaeology in which 11 presentations were delivered. Several datasets were presented ready to be integrated into the network. This includes 3D models on the material culture of late societies from northwestern Argentina, hunting and fishing societies from the southernmost region of the country, actions of public archaeology along with native Patagonian communities, databases of archaeological sites, radiocarbon dates to archaeological and lithic analysis, among others. In short, Argentinian archaeologists have understood the need to create digital things corpora based on broad and inclusive criteria such as those proposed by FER in a global context that attempts to work together in an international open science project. In this sense, the integration with continental initiatives such as Agenda Plus has allowed us to reach agreements for the development of the national network and its integration worldwide. Finally, we expect all of these actions to take effect on the improvement in digital things corpora originated from the global south. Thank you very much for your attention.