 Thanks a lot John Claude. Now I have to reach to the high standard of that presentation I gave and convince you that we're on the right path. Let's see if this works. So the title of my talk is open air from pilot to service and then I'll show you how where we were when we convinced John Claude and the others to go with this and when we're going right now. Okay two years ago we launched open air in the presence of Vice President Neely Cruz in Ghent and I gave the presentation of the project right before the launch and this was, these flowers are wonderful but they are blocking my view so I'll be doing things like this so or maybe I can come this way. This was the slide at the time the first slide of my presentation. Open air makes open access a reality for research publications. Open air implements the open access pilot for FP7 in FP7 of the European Commission and open air addresses projects with special close 39 in the grant agreement. That's where we started and I want to focus on a few terms in that slide open access pilot in FP7, research publications and European Commission and close 39. So where all these have changed in where we are now and in the direction that we are taking. First of all the title of my talk says from pilot to services and now we are offering let's say industrial strength and I use the term with full knowledge of what it means and I'll show you some evidence afterwards. Open access there are services for open access and people can depend on them. We are ready to move from FP7 to Horizon 2020 and all the open access requirements that this program will give us. Special close whatever number it will be we are ready to serve that and we are moving away not away we're moving next door also to the European Commission and we are ready to accept and serve similar needs not just for FP7 but other funding programs either at the European Commission level and European level or at national level and and we have done some initiatives on that. We are still the still the term that is highlighted there is research publications but not in the traditional sense that has come down to us through the centuries of writing a paper, publishing it typically in a journal or maybe in a conference proceedings for some disciplines but a generalized form of research publications because now in the modern way of doing research and communicating your scientific and scholarly results the publication is one thing the data sets that you produce is another thing talks that you give the software that you use the protocols that you follow or these are things that are publishable and show the kind of research that you did so this is the more generalized form of research publications and of course we started from some open access repositories at the time now we have a never-expanding open-air set of repositories network of repositories that we're building so that's where we are right now that's where we moved in two years time and I'll show you some results the thing is that when up and access started three or four years ago it was a term that people have been talking about for 10 years since the Berlin Declaration, Budapest and so on but still it was new in many years now it's spreading everywhere everybody wants to be open access well not everybody okay some publishers don't but in any case this is the trend and we'll see where it will get us modern science research is a globalizing undertaking so it is becoming more global it's not there yet but the support structures that are to support this kind of to help and facilitate this kind of effort need to be done at the local level at the institution at the nation at within a theme local not just geographically but also thematically often and the challenge is to get all these local things this local activities local results and bring them all together to support the global or the globalizing type of research and currently we're in a transient period we are ready to move from the ways of the past the ways we're used to be doing things to the new ways and how to do that we don't know the society the scientific community does know an opener comes right at that point to help this process to understand together with the stakeholders what is required to be done and do it open air is a research infrastructure project and in fact it's a research infrastructure in three dimensions human content and technology and is doing this true to the previous slide starting from local things and providing a participatory philosophy in achieving all the services whatever is being developed by others we take advantage of we build upon we don't rebuild we don't spend again money to do the same things just grabbing what is already there to come up with something that is value added and in doing that we end up having an effort that is really multifaceted at many levels and it's a it's not just multi but it's also inter sometimes you bring all this together sometimes you have to interact with others so multi or international lingual disciplinary cultural meaning scientific culture organizational and so on in order to for open air to achieve what it needs it has to operate in multi facets in multiple facets and by bringing together the consortium that we have so far we have managed to do this with respect to the human infrastructure from where we started open air broadens its engagement with the research community it has national open access desks in every single member nation member of the European Commission and beyond but not only that it interacts with many other entities that I have interest in this it encourages researchers to deposit their results publications and all in institutional or thematic repositories and putting access and putting them in open access places all the videos that you saw all people were saying oh we want open access we want to find things as a result I'm not sure if whoever was taking the interview from them asked them what do you deposit your stuff in open access repositories there's always a challenge and our network of open access desks is facing this challenge with with many tools and the speaker that comes right after me will say about not a lot more in detail maybe and we collaborate with many scientific organizations and initiatives in order to do this our effort is not done in a vacuum as I said it's participatory whatever others have done that helps our purpose we interact we collaborate with them and we bring the results this is our structure 27 member states plus a few other nations within Europe but also going even even beyond collaborations with many many other initiatives organizations that have to support us I won't go down through the list Eurocrease for current research information systems it's a it's a big issue our collaboration with them or kid for coming up with standard identifiers for researchers and so on this is not a pilot anymore it's a true service and yes 24 hours is not enough but that's what it takes to offer in a multi-disciplinary level at the European at least level the services that that that we have to deal with moving away from human infrastructure let's go to the content infrastructure open-air broadens its scope it started with a traditional research publication concept and it moves away and deals with all kinds of research outcomes not the content itself but the data the metadata that it needs in order to combine and link and analyze and and cluster and come up with higher level information and useful knowledge for research currently we have 6.5 million you'll see two or three numbers in our various talks it depends on when we got the number but it's above 6 million 6.2 6.5 in any case soon it will be seven so this number would it doesn't it doesn't matter and we interact with funding agencies not just the Commission but also across Europe and although every institution and every scientific discipline wants to offer a repository for their constituents there are some that don't have a natural place to put the research results their publications or the data and so on we offer that as well we call it for orphans they're not orphans they're homeless not the people but the research result so we have a way to store what doesn't have a natural place to go to I mentioned this new concept of a research publication what is this well if you go and look at a research question typically this results in a publication and that's what we've been talking about but this is not produced in a vacuum it has lots of things within the publication the data is used the life with it other publications it sites or doesn't site but alludes to and so on but of course we have the research data it used or it produced and it comes with it it's bugger the workflow it produced it the particular experiment and so on and of course usually this is paid by someone who paid it how much they paid under what con under what program all this and a lot of other things that are not in this picture constitute the new form of application some of it can be considered as a publication on its own the research data set can be considered a publication data sets text and so on with everything else is necessary for someone to understand the kind of research that was done based on the requirements of modern day science we need to we don't need that we need red button okay all this to capture the concept in the way more and more scientists consider what their scientific result is about and our current services and services under development moving this direction now I have to this some glimpses of things already happening this is a biology paper and here in the red which I'm sure you can read in the back it says the data set that I produce has been deposited in gen bank and the accession number is this okay already data and text go together and that's and that's a link and if you go and you look at how gen bank shows this it has a EBI okay that takes the data from gen bank it has a particular way of inter and showing the publication and here are the accession numbers of the elements in gen bank if we look at different social sciences similar similar way a publication and various data related links external database links that they need to show next to the textual publication what is the right concept of this new research publication we are working with stakeholders with different disciplines with dance with EBI and so on coming from disabilities to understand the commonalities in this new research publication and the idiosyncrasies of every discipline in order to be able to support it and we have some services in this direction and more are to come this is the future of research results and we are there to take advantage of what is produced and and bring it to the researcher third infrastructure technology open air broadens its scholarly communication services open air is a platform you can take it and install it at home and do it with your publications home being your institution your lab your country your continent or whatever level you want to achieve this and it does not provide for the most part first level services but it aggregates it integrates and then offers things on top for many of the things that I mentioned and let's look at the picture this is the fancy picture of the presentation underneath we have the data that others produce the six point five million publications in different kinds of repositories institutional thematic open access closed access halfway open whatever pre-systems and funding funding databases we are probably the only European project that has access to European Commission databases okay and and that's a big achievement lots of interactions with colleagues at the European Commission to achieve this and now we're going to national funding agencies and we are trying to we are we are working on that as well and many initiatives as I said lots of databases there and then data repositories not to have to deal with data the data is taken care of by others but grabbing metadata to link you that data side and so on and this exists without us and then comes the open-air hub for lack of a better term offering registries of all these things the CERN system that offers a home to the homeless huge machinery to analyze all this to aggregate to clean to interact to link to come up with trends and so on get rid of duplicates realize who which of the 10,000 Giannis Ioannidis is let's say is the one who wrote this paper and so on and all that we offer a bunch of services but we know there are many others who want to offer services on top of our data so we offer application programmatic interfaces to third parties to come up with their own services as well and then we have our own help that the position it's easy to deposit stuff to us please come don't be afraid lots of visualization and management of this new form of publication case search and browse curation and collaboration linking content coming up with statistics all these services this is the added value that we offer on top of data that others have a lot of effort is going on there by bringing it all together is the catalyzation that open air brings to the research life cycle and of course Norbert alluded to that a little bit with his showing of the books we don't just offer software and technologies and networking through this process by looking at requirements top-down and looking at what people are doing bottom up we come up with guidelines and people little by little not just on repositories publications providing information and now recently for data providers for the needs of open air you cannot tell the the the astronomer how to deal with their data but how to store in order to participate in this higher level aggregated environment some things maybe needed to be done in a particular way by issuing guidelines after studying the needs standardization happens in a de facto way not in the Yuri's way but a de facto way and we've seen tremendous results in the publication world and little by little possibly in others this is a 24 times 7 service that is operational since 2010 I should say I think I mentioned in another slide in these two years it has been zero second of unscheduled downtime the system has not crushed we brought it down twice because we had to and it was scheduled and pre announced it hasn't crashed don't ask me how certainly I haven't programmed any part of it that's part of the reason why it hasn't crashed but it is a service that you can depend on and it's not just a piece of software that you built it has to interact as I mentioned with so many other services and that's and that's a big challenge lots of people behind it it's a team of more than 15 people working full-time in maintaining and developing the services plus administrators and for those of you who like to see underneath the seats we have over 350,000 lines of code this is scary but it works and okay the software is there and we use it for the open air infrastructure as I mentioned though it's something that you can take and put in other places and we have done that sometimes on our initiative we participate in another project we being some members of the consortium we see a similar need we take it we tell the others they love it we use it but often others come to us and say we see that you do this we might need something very similar there can you give it to us and so we see a lot of national initiatives Spain recollect up Poland and so on and even across the pond Argentina will probably be installing this for their own open air actually should be open air la Latin America because he in open air is Europe and in other infrastructure projects both at the European content providers and also organizations that want to use our services for statistics collections we offer lots of services for lots of kind of stakeholders tools for research managers to evaluate open access how much open access we have what is the impact of open access statistics on the scientific product of a research administrator in our in a university tools for project coordinators if you get your data in open air and then you go to Cordis you get your publications automatically you don't have to add it twice and this is very good and very important in terms of interaction between the Commission and what we offer one thing about data analysis for more things about research administrators okay we fund all these projects we Royal we the funding agencies the publication that come out of how many are in what topics what is the hot topic we are working on analysis this is not a graph that we have produced but soon we're producing better graphs this is an NIH graph on trying to categorize publications in various areas and when we have this and we are let's say halfway in we've done half of the way you'll be able to see what is the impact what our researchers are producing on what has been funded a lot and has produced little scientific results little few I should say what has been funded not so much but it produces a lot where is the need lots of visualization services data analytics services tailored to the needs of the research lifecycle of the new kinds of publications user statistics how many repositories how many publications how much of it is open access open access appears not just in repositories but in open access journals can we be the infrastructure where open access journals can be built upon this is another way and another target that we may be offering to the research community by analyzing harvesting and analyzing publications we have identified about 45 43,000 fp7 publications from about 8,000 projects nobody went and did this we did it with our tools and with our services and harvesting our repositories thematic repositories and repositories like a further aggregating repositories around the world US repositories European and so on just looking at the number yet an immediate sense for part of what you have achieved as a funding agency or as a research administrator about 40% is open access this means that open access is catching up two years ago I'm not sure what the number would have been but but it's but it's catching up I mentioned in passing many of the beneficiaries of open-air researchers and project coordinate managers industry particularly SMEs who don't have access necessary we don't have a research branch and we don't produce research but want to take advantage of the research the citizen scientists let's not forget but a lot of our fellow citizens have the scientists in them and they look and and they come up with results that the real scientists whatever real means have not seen having open access established upon the research results opens a new world to them funding agencies scientific initiatives I mentioned repository managers and policymakers open-air it started from publications which is a form of data and organizing all this data typically people talk about you have data and then you put data in context and this gives you information and then if you take information you make it actionable you get knowledge usually stops there of course humanity for many thousands of years its target is wisdom from knowledge to come wisdom and a conference though talks about enlightenment in the knowledge society so I guess after wisdom then you get enlightened the goal is to reach this enlightenment and open-air is the tool to come to bring to reach enlightenment in the knowledge society this is our way this is our goal within the scientific realm we have reached the points that I kind of gave you a few glimpses in this presentation we are the turning point both of our services and of our penetration into the research communities through the national object access open access desks and we're at the point of a big new campaign to advertise the service that we've achieved so far and to get a lot more people to take advantage of the services but also to feed the services with their publications and their data sets in their own repositories or other infrastructures that are there for us to harvest and create this cohesive world we're glad that you are here with us you know Jenny towards the real open-air thank you