 Okay. Thanks a lot. It's a pleasure to be here and I'm very grateful to having the opportunity to speak here because I come as Donatella was telling you, I come more from the e-infrastructure side. And it's really nice to see the difference now because I see you as more from the soft side. On the e-infrastructure side we put the computers into the church like in Barcelona. You put the people into the church. So I think this reflects a bit, perhaps I wouldn't generalize too much, but it could reflect a bit about the different views of e-infrastructure people and the more human-driven forces on your side. But anyway, there's a couple of messages I think I would like if you just remember two things after my presentations I would be very grateful if you would first remember that I'm stressing you now a bit because I'm introducing some more acronyms and we all are suffering with those. But if you think as ICORDY as one of the possibilities for collaboration over a broad range of different things in the e-infrastructure side. And inside ICORDY we have partners already which are also in the open air. So there exists already the interaction and I would like to see a lot more in the ICORDY field coming in. This is the first message. The other thing if you remember after my presentation is the RDA as such which will provide new ways of collaboration and promoting the usage and interoperability of data globally which is I'm sure one of your key issues as well. How do scientists use the data globally? The reason why RDA or ICORDY exists today is pretty much from the fact that we believe that the scientists and the resources themselves really have the power to do things. This is nothing which is controlled from top down. We really believe that this is a process where the scientists from the bottom up really are staring the process. And there are a few good examples. I don't have the time to go into much details about but we have on the protein data bank side where scientists started to collect three dimensional structures of proteins and suddenly the database became such valuable that they really had to do this in a reliable and sustainable way. But everything was driven from the science or the researcher side. This is not something which was imposed from above. There are on more of the computer side we have the MPI forum. We had suddenly a lot of computers having lots of processors and the scientists come together and decided how these machines should be programmed. Of course, a good example is also the IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force. At the beginning there was just a group of people coming together and agreeing on standards and protocols. Today we are using mails and various kinds of applications but it would not have been possible if these people would not have come together and discussed this and we feel pretty much on the data field being in the same situation now. The scientists, researchers should come together. They should agree about standards, how to do things rather quickly. I will come into more detail about this but rather quickly, not in a seven years time frame but in a shorter time frame. In the same way as these examples I have on the slide. The ICORDI, which in a way started the process, it has two goals. The first goal is to support the creation of the research data alliance and I have some more slides about that. And the other goal is to support the work of European research community to work in the first place between Europe and the US but globally is the long term goal of it. Just the boring slide about the facts about the ICORDI, it is very, very small compared of course to the open air. But I think we have a lot of good momentum. It is a 24 month project as well. So we are really aiming at something short term results and it is about a 3.3 million euro project. But if you look at the bottom of the slide you see that ICORDI is trying to build or establishing something which we call a coordinated platform. And with the coordinated platform we mean three different things in this context. We have an analysis program which goes into details about the data exchange. We have a prototype program and we have now collaboration also onto the open air side here. And we have a workshop program. We think that we have to promote the young scientists to be involved as well. We are all struggling with the fact that we don't get educated data practitioners enough. What should we do to get these data practitioners because we can solve all the legal aspects but if we don't have these people who are trained in doing this stuff we just will fail. So we are also promoting young scientists to get more involved into this. From this slide I think I introduced first time something which we called the high level strategic forum in Europe. We are also in a way lacking a platform if I may use that in Europe which could act as a recommendation body. It could speak to various players in the field and so forth. So we are also looking into creating something which I'm not looking at a legal body but something which could unite different projects or different efforts under one umbrella. We have of course a website and I really recommend or suggest you to go to the iCord website and register and then you will get all the information. This is a fairly new project so we haven't gone and worked for more than a few months but I'm sure there will be much more stuff to come. And we have a lot of partners and this I'm just showing quickly the logo so you can recognize some of the persons in the room here if you want to contact them as well to ask. A few more words and I'm sure Donatella will also go into this is the research data alliance which is it is interesting and it's challenging. I will just briefly take you to the I think the history is quite short in fact. I'm sure the ideas have been floating around much longer than this but things have really moved during 2011 and 2012. And I want to emphasize this as well because this is something which has been discussed between EU DUT and OpenAir. So this is something this community has been reflecting of already. Unfortunately the discussions didn't really go in the direction that it would have been a united efforts in the beginning. I think we are coming back again to it but it wasn't really the beginning was to be a united but the outcome was not but now we are converging again. It's also reflects that things can happen simultaneously in different parts of the globe. In Europe we were thinking and planning things and realized that the Americans had also was also doing pretty much the same things and then we realized that we really had to unite the effort. The Americans were talking about the data web forum and we in Europe talked about the data access and interoperability task force but anyway we were talking about the same thing so we brought the things together and we got a very very strong push from NSF in the state and the European Commission in Europe and the Australians and we realized really that there's a lot of things we could do together and we have been working quite a lot in this path already. We had a big meeting in Washington first to the 3rd of October where we were really testing the first time how these things could globally work. We had a conference of the EU that had a conference in Barcelona a few weeks ago where we had a lot of the RDA stuff again and a lot of scientists and researchers and we were looking at how the things could be implemented and the sort of a big event in the RDA field will be the 18th to 20th March 2013 when there is the big launch conference in Gothenburg and I really encourage and wish that I see a lot of open-air people as coming to that event. Just a few words about the research data Alliance. As I have been speaking all the time, there are some specific things we are aiming at like short-term efforts to accelerate the sharing of an exchange of research data. It's really a short-term thing like the Internet Engineering Task Force started in the beginning. There are some outcomes from this like adapted standards, deployed infrastructure, adapted policy which we just had a long session and implemented best practices. I think all these things need to be in place to succeed. In the vision and purpose statement of RDA we have the goal is of course that the researchers around the world can share and use research data without barriers and research data is now any data a scientist or researcher needs for his or her work. The purpose of the RDA is data-driven innovation, discovery, sharing and exchange use, reuse and standard harmonization and discoverability. Pretty much the same things you are working with. I see a lot of commonalities. I think I'm soon running out of time so I should perhaps starting to converge to the end and that's why I'm skipping that slide. If you look at the part of the RDA we have structured it like in four different chunks and we are now in the third when we are in the pre-launch time where we are creating a lot of things to formalize the RDA as an organization. The March 2013 will be the fourth part in this when we think that the things have been formalized enough to. You might ask who are the persons involved so far and the active persons have been so far from the United States, Europe and Australia. There is a staring group with the names Ross Wilkinson and Andrew Trelloire from Australia, John Wood, myself Peter Wittenburg and Juan Bicare from Europe and Fran Berman and Beth Plale from the United States. This staring group is still working on building up and we have the first three members in the RDA council now nominated by NSF and the European Commission and the Ministry in Australia with John Wood, Ross Wilkinson and Fran Berman. You can participate into this work by through the working groups. The working groups is the essential now in the RDA. It's not an administrative exercise. It's the working groups that really produce this outcome and it's possible today already you can join the discussion forum where there are several different candidates working groups now working to put up an official working group and you can provide of course feedback already through the mailing list or the contacts and then you can come to the March meeting. I think I skipped that by showing you as the last slide some of the work which is now going on in the RDA discussion forum to create working groups. The working groups will then be put in place by the RDA council. This is pre, this is as we call it, it's candidates working group and they are working on different subjects in the field and you can see there are lots of commonalities between things which you are doing as well. So I really encourage you to join the effort as well and I'm sure Donna will give some more hooks into how this can be done. Thank you.