 Wel, ddweud am ymlaen chi, i gael ymddangos yma, yn ymddangos hefyd, yn Yn Ysgrifennu 2016. Rydyn ni'n Pauline Ward. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r Cymrydau Yn Ysgrifennu. Yn ymdangos hefyd, ymdangos Gavyn McLaughlin, yng Nghymru Llywodraeth, ac ymdangos hefyd, ymdangos hefyd, yn ymdangos hefyd. So he's brought some fresh ideas to the University, so please welcome Gavin. Great, well welcome everyone to the Repository Fringe 2016 Welcome to Edinburgh and to the University of Edinburgh on this beautiful sunny day. As you well know it's always beautiful sunny up here in Scotland for those of you who live here. So my task is to introduce the repository fringe which is a fantastic event and thanks again all for coming. We have two days of really intensive workshops and presentations and discussion and I hope you take a lot of things away from this repository fringe. So my short time up here I thought that I would talk about a couple of things. First and foremost, why are repositories important? Why are they so important to us and why are they increasing in importance? So there's the obvious, Ivan, which is compliance with funders. For those of you from the UK, obviously there's increasingly stricter rules in terms of compliance. Obviously, REF 2021, with Lord Stern's review looms in all of our minds. I see smiles around there as everyone starts preparing for the next REF. And in some ways, even more important than it was in the past with the potential and unfortunate loss of the European research money because of the recent referendum. So REF becomes even greater in our minds, potentially in some ways. Also, impact is incredibly important. We know that in the REF and overall in most of our university's objectives, the impact looms very large, including being able to actually demonstrate impact. And I think that's something that repositories really provide in a very major way. Collaboration is another really key area of importance in repositories. Being able to go ahead and collaborate really worldwide through the use of repositories is important. And reuse is something that's been talked about for a long period of time, and it's something that's really starting to come to the fore. You'll see on the program today that there's a lot of talk about open educational resources and open. And I think it's not just in the research area, but also very much in the educational area where reuse becomes so important to everyone and the community, especially in the reuse of really high quality educational material because of the great expense in making that material. Absolutely, it should be reused. Another item that's kind of near and dear to my heart is accelerating the research in educational life cycles. And I see repositories as one key area and one key tool in that. The government is looking for faster results in the research. And of course in education, education from a life cycle standpoint, especially the educational material, is moving even faster. So how can we possibly keep up? Well, repositories and open educational resources are one such method. Reproducibility is another area that's just starting to emerge. It's sort of from the dark corners of research that comes this question of reproducibility. There's been some very interesting research on research that Stanford and a number of other universities relatively recently that throws into questions the reproducibility of quite a large chunk of the research that our universities have produced. And I think that that question of reproducibility, well, is it even practical, is it cost effective, how can we prove the reproducibility of our research, is a question that will come more and more as time goes on. And I do think that that's going to be an emerging area where we're going to be questioned by funders, by the government, by the public at large about the reproducibility of our research results. And obviously repositories, especially research data and research repositories, are one answer to the question. I think another really key area that repositories help us on is recognition of the data creators. Now there will be quite a lot of you in the audience today. And it was very interesting in Lord Stern's review that this was an area that came up and that was about recognizing the data creators, not just the discoverers in research, but the actual data creators for the incredibly hard work they do and their impact in influence on science. And repositories, the measuring repositories, the impact, the amount that certain data elements get used is one way to go ahead and measure and recognize the data creators and the data itself, which more and more over time becomes important. Also citizen science and broadening participation is really key. The public gets more and more engaged and one way they can get engaged with us is through our repositories. Finally, industrial engagement. Obviously it's kind of the nirvana for many educational institutes and other institutes to go ahead and increase the level of industrial engagement that they have with the commercial sector. And it's very, very important that we do that as well. And again, repositories play their role in that area. So today in the repository fringe and over the next two days we have three themes. We have a theme about open educational resources and I've talked about just how important they are. We have a second theme called the nuts and bolts of open, which is a really exciting theme that gets right into nuts and bolts of why and how we go ahead and create open resources. And then finally a theme about making a difference with data, the impact and the sheer power of the data that we have in our repositories. It's very important and there's a number of workshops and talks across those three themes. And I think they just show the broadness of the repository fringe and just really the excitement level and number of things that we have going on. Now out of the last repository fringe there were a number of interesting questions that arose which I'm not sure we completely answered and maybe it'll take years for us to answer. And so I thought I'd just list some of them up here. Just to get everyone's mental juices flowing and your thoughts flowing about some of the unanswered areas. I mean one of them is who beyond the academic community is currently using data from the institutional repositories. You know obviously citizen science, the public at large, industry, there's all sorts of areas that we would like to get heavily involved. Where or who are the un-top audiences for research data in the institutional repository? A somewhat similar question. And how can repositories help researchers tell a story of their data? Because often there's a story in the data itself. And I think that's a really interesting one. How can repositories help researchers achieve impact with their data? And again this all important notion that we need to go ahead and demonstrate impact, just the level of impact that we've had. And then finally what should our vision be for the repository landscape of the future? Probably the toughest question, gazing into the future and trying to understand where the repositories are going in this very great complex world. So part of my role is to thank our organizers and our three organizers today are the Digital Creation Center, Adina and the University of Edinburgh. So thanks very much to all of them to helping to organize this event over the next two days. And I'd like to also go ahead and thank our supporters, Figshare, Archive and Gys, E-Prince and Oridio. Most especially just like to mention that Figshare helped support the drinks reception that we had. Archive was supporting the mid-morning coffee breaks as well as the Hollywood and Salesbury rooms. Gys supported the posters and E-Prince the lunches that you're going to have and the coffee breaks. So once again, thanks very much to our supporters that made this event possible. Just a little bit of housekeeping. So first and foremost, no one can survive without Wi-Fi, of course, and we have key surf here. You can follow the instructions given on the signage around the venue to get on to the Wi-Fi. There are no scheduled fire alarm tests, so if it does go off, everyone exits through the doors, including me. We'll make sure you get heard and done here safely. And you'll also be able to vote for your favorite poster. You've seen the posters in the venue area outside of here, and you'll be able to vote for your favorite posters on Google Analytics website, and the URL is up there for anyone who wants to go ahead and note it. And then finally, of course, please feel free to tweet your thoughts and comments and ideas about the repository fringe on our fringe 16. For those of you that can offer comments, it's just a really great way of getting some of the collective ideas, comments, suggestions, ideas, and everything of that nature. So that's all I had to say today. But again, very, very welcome to all of you at the repository fringe 2016. I will now hand over to Ann Marie, who will take it from here. Thanks very much.