 Hello, good morning. Welcome to you all to the 8th open-air area workshop on legal issues in our research data. I give the floor to Pedro Príncipe. Okay, good morning. So welcome you. It's really a pleasure to welcome you in this open-air workshop on legal issues in open research data. When we when we have decided to propose this workshop to the RDA plenary meeting, we thought to do it here, not to do it in the in the hotel, to do it close to the open-air stakeholders, to have researchers, to have research managers, librarians, repository managers. So it's why we are here at the University of Barcelona in this beautiful building. First of all, I need to thank to the to the university, to the vice-director to support in this workshop and also to Ignasi and to the team of Ignasi to support the all the organization of this workshop. I'm from the University of Minho that is in open-air the regional coordinator for the south region. In the south region we have so different countries and of course we have Spain, the National Open Access Desk in open-air for Spain is FESIT. So FESIT is also supporting this initiative. So ever, my colleague ever is also here. So if you want to contact ever that is at this moment is outside the registration. So you can also contact FESIT and ever is the National Open Access Desk. So you can contact them if you need support. So we will have three sessions this morning and in the afternoon we will have breakout sessions. So I invite you to stay until the breakout sessions in the afternoon. I know that some of you need to go to other events in the afternoon, but we will have the three sessions, but in the afternoon we also have the breakout sessions, which I think will be very useful for us to discuss. We have some materials over there at the entrance. Some fact sheets that are also in your folder. So we have a specific fact sheets for personal data and the open research data pilot and we have also over there the the summary of the legal study that my colleagues from the University of Gottingham will present. So I think it's it's it's all from me and thank you for being here with us today. Thank you very much Pedro. Now I give the award to Anthony Rosgelo. Thank you Pedro. Thank you Oriol and welcome everybody to this open-air workshop. Very thanks for the invitation as well. So my name is Tony Rosgelo. I am scientific manager for the open-air initiative. I work at the University of Gottingham. I work at the University of Gottingham and at Gottingham we are responsible for the overall coordination of the networking side of open-air for the network of people and I'll explain as we go. So what is open-air? Open-air exists to foster the social and technical links that enable open science in Europe and beyond and we are a socio-technical network so we have people in place and we have technologies and the the the network helps inform the development of the technology and the technology underpins the outreach that's done by our network of national open access desks. We have a dual core. We want to link open science and this means putting policies and practices together to make sure that open access open access to publications but also to research data to software to other research outputs to the whole research lifecycle to make sure that the open access the paradigm shift that we're seeing is a sustainable one based on open infrastructures and we our mission is to put the research within its proper context so to provide intelligent discovery by linking these research outputs so that people can find them. The aim of open the ultimate aim of open science is about increasing transparency and trust in science and also about enabling the reproducibility and the re-usability reproducibility of results and the re-usability of products and also about opening up the means of monitoring and analyzing science so that these aren't based on only proprietary tools as well. So who are we in open air? We're a big consortium. We have 50 partners from in every EU country and beyond. We are open access experts within libraries and data centers. We are information and computer science experts building EU infrastructure technologies. We are also experts on specific topics including legal topics which we'll hear about today from my colleagues at the University of Göttingen. And we are data communities. We've been in 24 seven operation now since 2010. We've had four project phases to date and we will be forming a legal entity in 2017. So open air is here to enable open science in Europe and beyond for the long term. As I said we have this dual core. On the one side we have our network of people and this is really the crown jewel of open air as I see it. So we have a network all over Europe of 33 expert nodes, the national open access tasks. They're in every EU country and more. And they're there to help local researchers, research administrators, project coordinators with training and support on open access and open science to help develop policies within their countries, develop and align the policies. And they're also there to help with technical assistance. We don't just focus within Europe, we also then because research is global. It's not just confounded this continent. So we develop worldwide synergies with many of our partners or comparable initiatives in other regions. So this is our human infrastructure. And on the other side we have our technical infrastructure which is about providing smart services for a range of stakeholders. So we provide services to researchers and research communities to link their research products. For example we provide services for data providers so that they can easily make their data openly available so that we can make those links. We provide services to funders and research administrators and also to third party service providers. All our information, our whole information graph is available through APIs and linked open data so anybody in the private sector or in academia can build on it. So today I thought this was a very quick introduction to what open air is. And in the few minutes I have left I just thought I would try to give you an overview of our activities in research data management. So we're about open science and obviously open data is now a very big part of open science. So I'm sure you'll know but the open research data pilot from the European Commission began in 2015, limited to some program areas. It was very successful and it has been extended to cover all program areas for all new calls from 2017 onwards. So that means from all calls beginning the start of this year will be open data by default. And the EC's mantra is that the data should be as open as possible and as closed as needed. So there are very robust opt out options for concerns about intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy and so on. And we'll talk today about some of these issues. Under the pilot projects must developing keep up to date a data management plan, deposit data in a data repository, ensure that other people can find it, access it and make sure what tools are needed to use this raw data. And these I make clear these four stipulations because it's really about putting in place the people and the technologies to make sure that researchers know what they have to do, what this means for them and to make those processes easier for them as well. So this is our technical infrastructure. And here on the left you'll see a range of data providers including data repositories. We publish guidelines for these data providers so that they can make the information publicly available and we can find it and aggregate it. We ingest all this information, do a lot of clever technical things to validate it, clean it, de-duplicate it and so on. And then we link those products to each other so that if you have a publication, for example, then from the publication you can link to the research funding. You can see who funded it. You can see which institutions were involved. You can see which data sets underpin the publications and so on. And this is really at the core of open science because if open science is about openness and transparency and it's about making those research products public, then really it's about the interlinking and the interoperability of those research products that makes the open science because this is how you make things findable and accessible and this is really our mission on the technical side. And then we make this information available to funders and others to measure impact, evaluate, to do evaluation and they can look at research trends as well. So these are some numbers about what the numbers of publications in our graph. We also have Zenodo, our open repository for all research products hosted by CERN. Zenodo, you can upload easily up to 50 gigabytes of data or anything else and link it directly to your research funding. We're also looking at new horizons for open data. So Paulo, our technical director who walked in earlier, is co-chair of the Scolics Initiative along with Elsevier, Datasite and others and they're working to enable the exchange of scholarly links across domains and platforms. So to put in place the way to make these links interoperable. We're also developing and we'll hear some more about this today in one of the breakout sessions, developing a tool called Amnesia for the effective anonymization of sensitive data. So, and this is again about making the researchers' lives easier. And we have a new project which started at the beginning of this year, Open Connect. And this envisions providing open science as a service. So providing dashboard tools for repository managers and for research communities to make sure that they can link their research products easily and effectively. On the human side, we do trading and support. So, we have a range of dissemination materials, some of which you'll find here today and more you can find on our portal. We also run many webinars. Our webinars on research data management and on writing DMPs have been very, very successful and we'll be running many more of those. So you can find information about the data pilot, about creating data management plans, selecting data repositories and so on. And then finally we also advise on open data. So we, our national open access desks as well as providing the first point of contact for researchers, research administrators and others who want to know about open data. They're also working and will, and this will become more of a theme as we go into the future, to align and develop effective open data and open science policies across the, across Europe. We provide feedback to the European Commission on that open data policies. So last year, for example, we, with another EU initiative, EUDAT, we provided feedback on revising the template for the data management plan in Horizon 2020 and we have been conducting legal research into research data management and open data. So in 2013, we published a study which came out of a previous project phase, OpenAir Plus, called Safe to Be Open on research data protection. Some of the authors are here and those same authors have written a study which will be coming soon and which we have the summary of here and those authors will be presenting next. So this was a very quick overview of what OpenAir is. Thank you. Thank you very much, Tony, for sharing your insights and your hard work on OpenAir. So, well, this is the eighth workshop devoted to explore legal hindrances and potential solutions to open research data. If you check today's program, as Pedro have shown you, you have a full day ahead involving many things like personal data protection, data interoperability, open research data pilots in Horizon 2020, infrastructures, things, well, a lot of things. So I hope you have a very nice workshop. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizing committee for bringing this nice workshop to our home, to the University of Barcelona. We always have open, receive this kind of workshops with open arms and also I would like also to especially thank those of you coming from abroad and also people here. Finally, I would like to share some opinions on this stuff and casually last week I was at an event at London and in that event I was unexpected. It was unexpected. I found a guy from the trust initiative from MIT who they are also working on trying to think in new ways of sharing or making use of data. In this case it was a guy from Project Opal which actually is completely the opposite of sharing data. It's sharing code and putting the code into some arbiters of the data so that data is never shared, but they're shared are the outcomes of the data and these arbiters are third parties with trust renties. So I thought it was interesting so I wanted to share that with you because it's a different way of instead of giving, opening the data is opening the code so that actually you can put that into whatever data without problems of privacy in always in the good idea that these trustees has actually well well good privacy protection policies. And also another thing that was quite interesting for me are the ways of similar to the Amnesia project Tony was talking to you about new approximations to anonymising data or making data obscure for in order to protect privacy and in particular those lines I think that they are interesting to have a look at are those that are concerned with machine learning techniques coming from the deep learning world which actually are able to give pure secure data but it's only for a specific task. So from the office of digital transformation that I represent we give full support to studying new ways in favour of open science, open data and open access so in closing I hope you all enjoy this workshop as well to our city and I would like you to welcome you all to the University of Barcelona so thank you very much for being here.