 Hello ARL attendees. I'm pleased to join you today even if it's only as a digital mirage. I wanted to share a few thoughts about SHARE. I'm the APLU's representative to the SHARE steering committee and I've given this quite a bit of thought. People ask us why are we pursuing SHARE and I think it's clear if you think of the history of universities and the role of universities in preserving the scholarly record that this is just a new form of that responsibility in the digital age. Say well why do SHARE a distributed solution when there are other solutions that are likely to be centralized federal solutions or publicer solutions. And I think there are three arguments. First the federal government is not the only funder of the research record that we want to keep. There are many different ways that research is done in many different forms and universities have preserved those records for the entire public. Anything that we want to provide to the public, universities want to be prepared to keep that record. So that's not just what might be funded by the federal research or published by the conventional scholarly publishers. Secondly the size of the record that we're trying to keep in fact is too large to have a centralized solution. When you consider open data and what one needs to preserve with open data that is an enormous challenge. Data is unbounded so there will be times when in fact there may be a unique data record or at most a replication to be sure that it can, the essentials can be preserved. And you won't want that or the collection of all those digital records to somehow be centralized. They're just going to be too big. For example what might come from high-energy physics or what comes from astrophysics or DNA research. That's just too big. Another is resilience. In many different times throughout history universities have been able to protect scholarly work even through dramatic regime change. We hope that that's not something you have to deal with regularly. But it is something that universities throughout the world have done and with a distributed solution comes a great deal of resilience. We want to be sure that the access that you're provided is very complete access. We're interested in having scholarly works available for text mining, other kinds of analyses. People have asked how will SHARE be funded? It's another cost and we don't have lots of sources of money at this time. But the point I would make is that publication is part of the cost of research. Any funder who funds research for public consumption with the intention of public benefit expects that that research will be exposed to the public and therefore inherent in the system has to be the funding for the publication. SHARE is similarly a publication about publications and that's what will enable us to make the most of the publications that are available. That's why I think for the long run if we can make that argument with our funders consistently that we will find a way of covering the cost of SHARE. With that I hope you've had a congenial and productive meeting. I'm sorry I could not join you and I thank you for giving me a few minutes of your attention.