 I wanted to begin by talking a little bit about the Valletta Convention, because it is one of the most successful in the Council of Europe's conventions. I'm so much shaking ahead, but it's made conservation, it's put conservation more in national thinking in terms of modern developments in developing the infrastructure of countries. I want to talk a bit about how that change is impact on the archaeological archives and also ask whether we're meeting the challenge of increasing access, which is also at the heart of the convention, and how that might shape up over the coming years. In terms of England, Dan's been speaking a little bit about England, but in 1990 there was an update to our planning policy guidance, PPG 16 came in, and this was updated again in 2012. Both of them stressed the importance of investigating archaeological sites in the advance of Valletta, and they had this concept of either preservation city or preservation by record, which would be so familiar to all of you. In principle, the majority of the excavations are funded on the Paleta Pays principle. That's had a big impact in terms of the amount of work that's been going on. You can see, I think, from this graph, which was produced from data from the historical excavation index, there's a significant increase in the amount of investigations and field work. That has a knock-on effect in terms of the amount of archives that are coming into the system. This is not, as you might imagine, a picture of a museum store. This is a picture of the stores which are held by Wessex Archaeology. There are large quantities of undeposited archaeological archives in contractor's care at the moment. So, PPG 16 and the planning guidance that's coming in have been successful in terms of transferring the cost of field investigations from the public sector to the private sector. That's not been matched by addressing the cost of storing and accessing that material into the future. So, seeing the light of day is a project which is being funded by the Arts Council England and is led by the Wiltshire Museum. We're looking at the questions around what we need to do in order to come up with a sustainable future for archaeological archives. Part of that brief is looking at questions around access. I'm going to focus mainly on that side of the brief today. To put it a bit more into context, the Wiltshire Museum is a designated collection, so that means it holds nationally important material. I would say it holds international archaeological collections. It's an independent museum, so it's run by a county archaeological society. It's a charitable trust. It receives net public funding of about £200 a year. That's a tiny amount of money. It stores the form. They have no space to accept any new archives generated as a result of preventative archaeology. They do have some space reserved for their own field group, so they have an active field group who are depositing their materials in the store. They do have plans in place to go into collaboration with the Salisbury Museum to create a new store for the county. I'd say they've got not insignificant collection. There are also not insignificant infrastructure developments coming up in the county in the next few years, which are likely to produce significant archaeological archives. What they've been fighting to do is to secure the place of archaeology in the core strategy for Wiltshire. You'll see, I don't know if you can read it, but highlighted in red as a part of strategy, which says maintenance and improvement of the county's heritage assets, including the storage of archaeological remains, is highlighted as something that needs to be addressed by the county. I'm talking mainly about England, but we're not alone as these challenges are familiar across Europe and the other parts of the UK as well. Within the project we're looking at whether we can increase the capacity for storage for archaeological archives through collaborative developments by museums, by different actors within the archaeological sector getting together and bringing money together in order to create new storms. But we also need to change thinking bit around the deposit and the access to those archives. So at the moment the typical approaches and material archives should be deposited within the area. We need to ask some hard questions about whether that scenario continues into the future because the museums don't necessarily have the capacity these days in order to deal with the volumes and material that we're looking at. I wanted to talk about how we approach and knocking the potential of those archives because although I can comparison with other with local history or natural history collections that are held by museums, the archaeological component is actually quite well used, but it's probably less well used than we imagine when we talk about preservation by record. So we're not going back to our own archives perhaps as much as we might. So I'm quoting Istho from yesterday. The reports are relatively easy, but the data and the material archives are much more difficult. There's a lot of potential in this work that's going on. So the slide illustrates the PPG16 investigations which contain information that is relevant to prehistoric and Roman Britain and Ireland. So you can see that all the work that's going on has a lot of potential with search games and you need to begin to make more of that. Going back a few years, and Dan's mentioned this already, we have a reporting system through OASIS where the contractors use this form to report their investigations to the historic environment records and it's been developed to allow them to upload their reports. There are not this report to the ADS's Grey Literature Library and increasingly people are beginning to upload the digital components of their archive to using ADS easy or other channels to the ADS collections and it's increasingly a recommendation that's set in the planning commissions of the digital archive to meet the positive for the ADS. There are costs involved and there are some barriers there because that involves a change in thinking on the part of the land owners and developers that they actually have to pay for digital archives, but there's a mechanism in place to actually upload these parts of the material. So we have a nice library which is online and researchable which is getting quite good user statistics so it's increasingly making this previously unpublished research available to users of all kinds. We also have archive collections and I've highlighted this one which is a digital collection deposited by the museum of Dark Barsfall in North Devon because it is possible for museums to create a presence on the ADS with the digital archives that they hold so it's not only researchers or architectural contracting units that are depositing their material here. I have to say that the museum presence is quite small at the moment but I just want to show the potential. I'm talking about the whole of the archives and not only the digital parts of the archive but also the material objects in the bulk collections. We have catalogs so if we have a digital catalog we can begin to make the metadata records available in search and discovery tools. I'm highlighting Europeana here because we've gone to make more archaeological material available to Europeana by Karari so we've got new discovery tools as lots of potential to create discovery tools at this time but the problem in the southwest is that only about 25% of museum collections are actually online so there's a big gap between the material that's there that's available that's potentially interesting and relevant to research frameworks and we need to begin to find ways to make that those collections more evidence to researchers. The Royal Outlook Museum in Exeter has been doing work in partnership with the University to develop the collection prospectus and what they've been doing is looking at ways of identifying their own collection research policies and matching them to university research priorities and highlighting particular parts of the collection that are interesting and relevant. We could do more of that through Dan's collaboration with the research frameworks platform. There are object material research topics that are highlighted within the regional research frameworks and not only site-based topics and then there are communities as well so excavations offer them the first point of access and it's where people become aware of something going on something interesting within their area and most contractors have some public engagement activities going on but that's only during the life of the excavation of course once it's completed the archives it's positively been the museums at the point of access for communities and they have an important role to play and a lot of expertise. Just to recognise that people are coming into museums for a lot of different reasons so we see people talk about the exhibitions, the virtual exhibitions, the videos, the displays that are available, people engage with them for all kinds of reasons either because they come in with a group, there's a school kid in a group there, the University of the Third Age coming to visit, they're doing some volunteering, they want to do some research in their area, there's a lot of diversity and potential in terms of people's contact with archaeology so I wanted to say to move from being passive to active and from looking at stuff and enjoying being with people while you look at stuff and getting some value or some inspirational creativity by looking at the material to actually engaging with it and getting involved in research of your own. This is maybe more on the conventional side of the spectrum because this is a virtual museum for Bristol which has been created by community archaeology group so they've got involved in digitisation, they've created their catalogue, they put it online, they've done this kind of work and it's a very nice activity and it fits very well with the traditional involvement of volunteers in museums so I spoke earlier on about the virtual museum, we've got around a thousand volunteers and thousands of hours of volunteer time every year so we have groups involved in all kinds of activities and it's one of the main ways that they're getting their collections online so this type of activity is nice but there's other types as well and I hope that we're going to hear more about these kind of more novel forms while we're looking at online communities in the crowd in the potential for getting setting up research projects doing kind of collections research or annotations or enriching collections using these online tools and just highlighting this universe and microcasts but there are a lot of other initiatives around and so I would say these are very challenging times we're very short resources as a drop of pressure on museums, on archives, on the deposit of archives we need to find funding to sort out the storage problem and to sort out the basic provision of access but there are also opportunities to innovate and to change our thinking around the deposit of archives, the access to archives and to begin to unlock some new potential uses of those archives both by researchers and by communities. Thanks very much.