 Okay, so for those in the room, if you are joining from Zoom, please ensure that you do mute your audio so that we don't get feedback loops. But let's say welcome, welcome. We are coming through okay. And let's say the slide audio glitch there was I hadn't done the microphone on. So welcome everybody to this, let's say our first symposium in the vocab space here. We're gonna be doing a bit of introductions as we go through this morning. But first and foremost, I wanted to have Paul House from the First Nations portfolio here to join us to give us a welcome to country. So thank you so much, Paul, for joining us. It looks like you're working. Yep. Thank you. No, we can't do this. So you can work on it. So thank you, Steve, and thank you, Steve. And good morning, everyone. You and Paul Giroa House. My name is Paul Giroa House. I was born here on Yambri Country at the Old Canberra Hospital. Anyone born in the Old Canberra Hospital? I am still an endangered species. That's good to say. Yinja Marabala, Dr. Matilda Williams House. My respects to my mother, Dr. Matilda Williams House. Because of her, I can. My mother was the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded an honorary doctorate from the ANU only recently as 2017. And I'll talk a little bit more about mum and her achievements in my welcome to country. So Yilin Galangbu, Giba Bangalwoga Buu Migaibu, Dita Niel Bang Ma'in, the ladies and gentlemen, young men, young women, Nyaati Inja Mali, Nyaambri Guma Walgulu, Wala Balao Nunawa, Ngaraga Waredri, Muji Gang Nyanangu Jyandu. My respects to Nyaambri, Guma Walgulu, Wala Balao Nunawa, Ngaraga, Waredri, eldest past and present. Nyaari Inja Marabu, Muji Gangu, Nura Bangigu, Nini Yiridu, my respects to all people from all parts of the country. Nyaambri, Walgulu, Wala Balao Nunawa, Ma'in, Ga'en, Banya, Nino Ga'a, Nura Bangodara. Nyaambri, Nunawa people, welcome you all to country. N'adu, Wala Gubi, Bala Bambu, Gubu, Bala Gi, Bangu, Gugungulila, Dumbalina, Murawei Marabu. We listen to our elders, our ancestors, our old people. They show us the straight, the correct, the right path on country, Dula Gang, Mura, good path. Gugungulila, Bilangali now, Wala Mali now, Yama Mala now. They nurture us, they assist us, they protect us. Mambu Wala, Naminya Gul, Wala Gubi, Wala Daraigul, Winangala Gubaligul, looking to see, listening to hear and learning to understand. Yinja Mara, Yinja Malgujul, Yinja Marabu. It's a philosophy, it's a powerful word on country, it's a philosophy, it's an ideology. It means many good things, all the good nutrients. To go slow, be patient, be polite, be gentle, take responsibility. Yinja Mara, Bala, Magam Nawa, Magam Nawa, Waggadine, Nanu Dango Abu, Miradaganda, respect is in the soles of the feet of the dancers, hitting the earth. Yinja Mara, Bala, Gujigang, Gagumara, Wala, Nonga, Yalarat, Bulani, Ma'in. Respect is in the people and the government, embracing voice, treaty and truth telling. Yinja Mara, Bala, Magagiripiranga, Bougangutrinda, respect to be found in the journey of the Bougangmoss in the mountains. They also taste very good, but they're endangered. Like many plants and animals in this country, they're endangered and on the brink of extinction. They'll welcome the country, they're always made in the spirit of peace and a desire for harmony for all people of modern Australia and surrounds and a main name as local custodian is to establish an atmosphere of mutual respect through the acknowledgement of our ancestors and the recognition of our rights to declare a special place in the pre and post history of the region. The name Canberra is derived from the name of our people and country right here, the Yambri. The name Canberra was gazetted on the 22nd of January 1834 under the New South Wales colonial government. The name Canberra derived from the word Yambri. Yambri means to sleep, the camp, to lie down. When our ancestors first met Europeans in the 1820s here on country, from Piazza Gau all the way here to Yambri or Acton Peninsula, they asked our old people, what do you call this place? And the old people didn't respond by saying the barbecue area. The different renditions of the word Yambri, Canberra and hence Anglicised Canberra came back. We've cared for Mother Earth since the dawn of time and evidence of our sovereignty, our state, or our ownership can be seen everywhere throughout the land. Our signature is in the land, not just our DNA and taking care of a country is important to us all. A moda maginia yinja mara moda moda widem bida nora bango. A respectful way of life, cares for country. Yinja mara widem bida mara ndo gobo, giyira gobo, yando gobo. Respect is taken responsibility for the now, the past, the present, and the future. The law of the land talks about yinja mara maingalangbu, yando maingalangdu yinja maugiju ninyo gear, giving respect and honour to all people in all parts, then people will respect you. Yinja mara, we want to see our children grow up in a society that acknowledges, respects and honours First Nation people in this country. Mara galadao walan maia maingalang. Hold fast to each other, empower the people. Walang gunmala mara mara gurei. Be brave, make change. Bida yawana mudawara nawa nbida. Get up, stand up, and show up. So in conclusion, mara bangalang, ngoi malang. It's wonderful, it's fabulous to be here and to share some of my vocabulary, our language. Wurae nyi young, wurae maia, no language, no people. Everyone here, share our connection, nain mudaw, budambabuda, our connection in sharing nyi young, or language, maia, and with the people. I'm going to play a welcome song on the yidaki now. A culturally appropriate yidaki, yidaki. The place called Ramagini in Arnhem Land. And I have four sets of tapping sticks here to share with you today, to celebrate. To celebrate, we always, we have to celebrate. It's a big important part of what we do on country is respect and acknowledgement and an honouring of all people in all parts of the country. So here we go, we've got bangal, numbai, ola nulabumai, bangal, four sets of tapping sticks, to share with the yidaki. So with that, mandangu, wura guwuri, guwai and bana, guwabari, welcome. And thank you very much. So thank you so much, Paul, for that wonderful welcome. And say, given the sharing of knowledge we're hoping to do throughout these couple of days, it's very much appreciated. OK, here we go. So thank you so much, Paul. He's a very busy man. They say, this is your second welcome this morning, in fact. So there's plenty of knowledge sharing going on, certainly throughout this week. So just one moment, folks, we'll reorganise a little bit in the room. I will act here too. So I've got the privilege of sort of kicking things off locally in terms of some of our content and just doing some context setting for the day. I'm just going to screen share again. Move us out. Just got to get back to Zoom. Share our screen again. And we just back in. OK, so I'll say I'd also like to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the land we're on today and give my respects to the land of the normal people and the ambry people that was past president emerging. My privilege here is to sort of introduce the team and talk a little bit about why we're here. So I just need to switch to that slide there. I think we're getting good audio and visual here. I do need just to switch the background moment. It's always fun working with some of these hybrid experiences. I've been doing a bit of this with my own teaching as well and learning a little bit about what works and what doesn't in different contexts. So we'll go back here. So I say so thank you to everyone. We have this is, as I said, whether this is the first of the second workshop is a little bit of a question for some of us who've been doing this for a while. So I'm here to give a bit of the context as to what we're trying to do over the next few days. This this conference is a symposium is being organised by three partners, the Australian Data Archive here at the Australian National University, which is part of the new Centre for Social Research and Methods. I'm director of the of the ADA. The Australian Research Data Commons represented here by Adrian Burton and a number of colleagues here as well. Who are and you'll be hearing from Adrian in just a moment. And then thirdly, Codata represented by the executive director, Simon Hodson, and I will just give a quick hat tip to Simon who will join us tomorrow. Actually, as the keynote speaker as well, give us an international context. The local organising committee say we've we have certainly the committee itself. Leslie Wyborn from say most of us have multiple hats here. So I'm just going to recognise those multiple hats. Leslie's from the ARDC and NCI and Oscope. Megan Wong from Federation University. Myself, I have several hats, one of which is actually is Codata Treasurer as well. So I kind of recognise the the crossover that's there. Kieran Demoordner from Cytrax will be your facilitator for the next couple of days. Simon Cox from CSIRO and Codata and Rowan Brownlee from the ARDC as well. We also have locally and here here at ANU, Givane Scoff, who is you in the room now? Givie, she's upstairs, certainly coordinating a lot of our our local online arrangements and our local contact and Kaila De Silva. Kaila, do you want to raise your hand as well? Who is our local point of contact here as well? And some of you will have had some engagement with her already. There is also I have the advantage of being able to bring say my staff are both interested in vocabularies and here to help. So just for the ADA staff, can you just raise your hands as well? There are several of us dotted around the room. And so it's the ADA team, Heather, Janet, Tina, Wayfan, Ryan, Samir is actually here as well. And Samir is just getting into a linked open data as well. So he's a late addition, but very keen to hear more. And Ryan Perry is also online as well, who's who's based in Melbourne. OK, so there are plenty of people here to help. They are also very much interested in what we're here to do as well. We have this as part of our our interest here in the conference itself. What we're going to be doing over the next couple of days today is about understanding the present. Where do we find ourselves actually, you know, certainly in Australia internationally, in terms of where a vocabularies is at at this point in time. We'll be hearing we're running from 10 to four Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time each day. Today's keynote will be Adrian Byrne, who I'll introduce in a moment. Then we have two sessions today. One is on international vocabularies and services. So we have a mix of online and in-person speakers. So our first session will be from our international colleagues. And then a second session is after the non vocabularies in Australia and understanding what's what's the current landscape for the Australian vocabulary services and vocabularies themselves. And then on each day, we're actually going to be running a group discussion at the same time as well. So we are looking to be, I say, as best we can in this context, interactive where as much as we possibly can. So we are going to get you to be doing some things as we go through as well. And today's discussion is going to be about mapping the landscape. Day two, then, we'll be about imagining the future. So where are we and where do we want to be? Is the theme, you know, certainly we're looking to for these days. So imagine the future keynote for tomorrow, Simon Hodson co-dater, who a number of us are collaborating with as well. And really, we're looking here at two sessions on strategy systems and tools. So what are people doing that might allow us to move towards a desired future state as well? Solutions for the discovery and reuse of trusted vocabularies and within and across domains, because one of the particular challenges we're keen to solve and part of the co-data work program in particular is about how do we achieve interoperability to solve the grand challenges that exist across the on and above the earth, you know, in the places that we're working and below the earth as well in some cases for the oceans and terrestrial systems, colleagues. Doug, he's just given a reminder. We'll talk about a little bit of logistics in just a moment. Say phones, phones, iPads, et cetera. We will pick up as we go through tomorrow's group discussion will be about making vocabularies more usable themselves and where do we want to go next? I'm going to say a little bit about where we're going to go next in just a moment as well. So following on from the two days in post and we're having we actually have a follow on workshop as well. Now, let's say this is partly a function of say space considerations that partly it's also a question of getting in and getting some things done with a small manageable group. So I say this was we're running an invited workshop for the second half of the week. We have about 30 people attending, a number of who were involved in this symposium as well. The aim of the invited workshop will be to really take care of what we've learned from the symposium and go, how would we do this in practice? How do we get from here to there fundamentally? And what are the services? What are the vocabularies? What are the facilities across those who might be operating those services and vocabularies in a detailed hands on sort of a way? So the symposium is very much an open public discussion. Then we're going, how are we going to turn that into practice? It's really the intent. So by the end of this week, we're really looking towards getting a roadmap for where we think vocabularies in Australia and our contribution into the international community will get to in the future. So we have about 240 registrations. There are some last minute additions. There's always some last minute additions and last minute subtractions as well. And so there was a smiley face on there, of course, when you put this up on screen, you get these interesting representations. There are 59 people in person, about 180 online, so about three to one. And I mentioned that partly because it's saying we say we I guess we're a little surprised and very pleased about the the numbers that we're expecting to see here. But we're also looking at that. Introduces some logistical challenges that come along with it for those of us who worked in in hybrid presentation mode. Things like audio, visual and the like will will will be important here. So what I'm going to briefly mention here, I say we will have certainly online and face to face presentations throughout the next couple of days will also be having online and face to face Q&A and using audio at either end. We have audio in the room here. We will be able to hear people online in the Q&A sessions and vice versa. But what that does require is say some of the the the microphone, particularly in the room, we're going to be having to hand it around. So for those in the room itself, I'm going to be asking, please wait for the microphone itself. So you do get, you know, you can hear and you can say interact with those online and just making sure is that if you are following on Zoom, that you're that you're mused anywhere out other than from the mic itself here in the room. OK, so I say that's just so we can manage the dynamics and the logistics of the of the experience as we go through the next couple of days.