 Well, on behalf of the organisational partners and local organisers, welcome today's report to Absig on the 2022 Vocabulary Symposium and Workshop. First an acknowledgement of country. We acknowledge and celebrate the first Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and pay our respect to the Elders past, present and emerging. This report will begin with background on the organisational collaboration that made the symposium and workshop possible. Then an overview of the symposium. What was it about? Who attended and where did they come from? What did the presentations and keynotes cover? And we asked some questions of the participants and had some interesting answers. And then how to access outputs from the symposium links to presentation slides and recordings. And then Megan will give an overview of the workshop. Covering workshop activities and an overview of next steps proposed by workshop participants. In particular, a proposal to develop a vocabulary ecosystem roadmap. These events were developed in collaboration between the Australian data archive, the Australian research data commons and co-data. Ada is an archive of national social sciences data sets, ARDC partners on research infrastructure projects, developing platforms and providing services. And co-data promotes global collaboration to advance open science and to improve the availability and usability of data for research. Each of these partners has an interest in supporting and promoting the availability of well-governed authoritative vocabularies. And so for ARDC, co-data and Ada, it was a natural fit to work in partnership to develop a symposium and workshop focusing upon the application of fair vocabularies within and across domains and sectors. The local organising committee comprised members from Ada, ARDC, Federation University, CSIRO, Citrax and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, along with additional assistance from ANU and ARDC. The vocabulary symposium was held on the 14th to the 15th of November this year, online and in person, at the Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University. It brought together more than 200 users, creators and publishers of vocabularies across multiple domains and sectors in Australia and internationally, participants shared experiences and identified requirements for fair vocabularies underpinning cross-domain data. We saw examples of how vocabularies were being used within and across domains and we heard people talk about lessons that they learned along the way. Managing an event that's online and on-site takes considerably more work than managing one or the other, but it was well worth the effort to enable access for on-site and online participants, particularly those who otherwise just would not have been able to take two days away from work and travel to Canberra. Having online access allowed participants to drop in and out of sessions and to work around other commitments. We had a mix of participants from universities and other research organisations. There were people from cultural heritage institutions, increased facilities, state and federal government. A good mix across a range of domains and sectors and from quite a few countries. Again, a benefit of enabling online participation and we had some very good input from the online participants. All up we had two keynote presentations and 17 session presentations. 12 out of the 19 were presented online by remote participants and we had three broad groupings into which the presentations were arranged or streamed. International vocabularies and services, current practices concerning vocabularies in Australia and systems and tools for discovering and reusing vocabularies. Within those groupings we had really very good presentations. These included presentations on vocabularies that are used across domains, on interoperability frameworks enabling the application of vocabularies across domains. We heard about an approach to managing vocabularies using tools originating from software development. We heard about challenges involved in managing vocabularies that are used by different groups in bringing those groups together. And also the importance of inclusion in vocabulary development, that if you're developing a vocabulary for particular user groups, it's very important to truly engage with those groups in a meaningful way. A great set of contributors and we encourage you to scan through the program to find your own highlights. There were two keynote speakers, Simon Hodson from CoData and Adrian Burton from ARDC. Both covered a great deal within their respective presentations. Simon discussed CoData's long-standing involvement, supporting and promoting good governance and sustainability in vocabulary development. And he gave an overview of a range of current initiatives concerning interoperability across domains, in particular the global open science cloud and world fair, fair information profiles and fair enabling resources. Adrian discussed ARDC strategies and services for developing knowledge infrastructure for impactful research. ARDC provides support and promote a range of services around catalogs, persistent identifiers and vocabularies, aimed at making, discovering and reusing data connections across organisations and sectors, spanning inputs, activities and outputs. Two keynotes, both well worth reviewing. And we asked questions of participants. The results were a little rough, but you may get some ideas from this output and in the successive slides. When we asked where the participants worked, most responded that they were from academia, the federal government or state government. What were the domains within which participants worked with vocabularies? Quite a spread here. The largest numbers were in natural resources, earth and environmental sciences, information and computing. And then a second rung of culture and the creative arts, languages and communications, agriculture and physical sciences and quite a few other domains as well, health and health services, chemical sciences, biomedical and clinical, that sort of thing. We asked what type of vocabularies people mainly work with from simple lists in the lower left hand side of this diagram towards ontologies and beyond in the upper right hand side. And there were at least two substantial groupings. You can see 13 responses in the area of simple lists and 16 responses around RDF and conceptual models. When asked how would you describe the current vocabulary landscape in Australia, the greatest number of responses mentioned terms such as emerging, fragmented, evolving and confusing. When asked about challenges in meeting vocabulary needs, people identified a range of issues including technical governance and mapping. On the mapping topic, maybe access to tools to create mappings or access to understanding of approaches to establishing mappings in a way that makes sense. And when asked about what was missing from the Australian vocabulary landscape, mappings and governance came up again along with persistent identifiers, coordination and funding. Finally, we asked people to note vocabularies and services that they were aware of. Quite a few responses contributed from a relatively small number of participants. And here are some links to outputs from the symposium. The program itself links to presentation abstracts, presentation slides and presentation recordings. Information about symposium outputs has been sent out to the Absig discussion list and updates will also be sent out through the communication channels of the organisational partners including ARDC, ADA and CoData. And I should mention a point that came up late on day two of the symposium, a point and a question that Megan reminded me of and which is helpful to bear in mind. We had a very good discussion at the symposium among those who participated in the symposium, but what of those groups who may not have been representative? How might we become more inclusive? Thanks, that concludes the symposium report back. And next Megan will discuss the workshop.