Good afternoon. My name is Martin Halbert. I'm
Dean of libraries at the University of North Texas and
chair of the program committee for the ANADP2,
aligning national approaches to digital preservation. Second conference. I
would like to welcome you to the conference and just
provide some opening framing statements and we will have a
couple of more speakers and get to our keynote. Let
me give you just a little bit of background about
the conference. Many of the people in the audience
I see without the first event in 2011. Many
are new. Welcome to everyone. The end up
conference was intended from the beginning to be a little
bit different sort of conference of not so much simply
presentations, but directly engaging members of the community in
digital preservation operations at large scale in national settings and
national scale settings in exploring collaborative opportunities, alignment in
the sense of this conference is not top down a
line or forced on its willing voluntary alignment collaboration.
We talked in the program committee about perhaps a better
alerted alliances or allying different groups together. The aim
of the conference is to look for opportunities in which
we can benefit one through sharing information and also coming
together in practical ways to collaborate on projects and digital
preservation. The first conference was an experiment. This
one is an experiment as well. The first conference
was an experiment to see if we could bring together
an open group from many different national settings to look
for opportunities to look for points of collaboration, of
potential collaboration and document That. The first conference in
2011 was held in Tallinn Estonian and ultimately, the
members of the first conference produced a volume that was
edited by Catherine, Skinner and Nancy McGovern, which
I think nicely summarized the correctly large scale themes and
dimensions of the first the first conference engaged final chapter
of that monograph. That volume is a summary of
the key points of potential collaboration points of alignment,
if you will. That were discussed in the first
conference and it lays out basically a prospective agenda for
potential collaboration between prospective partners. Um That final chapter
informs subsequent discussions at and uh or less than workshops
associated with the end of discussion and informed a series
of collaborative efforts that have been carried forward since and
which are now represented at this conference. So the
experiment this time around with this event is to see
if we can host an event. Then he fosters
this sort of collaboration of high level uh collaborative efforts
at many different levels and across sectors. Uh The
structure of the event, you will see in your
programs that you should all have in your bags is
basically one in which we have a series of first
panels of high level experts that will provide observations,
advice for groups that are coming together to work on
these collaborative strategies. Um, these planetary sessions will
then transition to break out sessions of what we are
calling the action sessions. The sessions in which these
different streams of work will carry forward their efforts and
make some incremental next steps at this conference that will
situate, we'll make some progress at this event and
also situate these groups for future collaborative efforts. The
let me say a few words about. Yeah,
the venue just different places that you will see.
We are currently in the sala crop ballerina. This
is where all plenary sessions will be in. Some
in some of the action sessions, there is also
the solid top and instead of what are marked in
the program as patio sessions, Well, you've seen
the weather, so we're probably not going to do
any patio sessions. It's a little bit web outside
. Um, what we instead have decided is to
do the video sessions indoors in a room called the
scallop and diarrhea. In each case when we make
the brakes, the transitions from plenary sessions to break
out the action sessions, there will be volunteers out
here that will lead you to the relevant the other
two rooms. The carrot top of victoria Ramon.
Can you pull up your hand of Ramon and his
team of volunteers that you will find out there that
demanding the registration does will be available to lead everybody
to the breakout sessions that are not here in the
about the agreement. There are also bathrooms right across
the lab and it's a lovely venue. I really
appreciate the hospitality of the local posts. Well here
in just a few minutes from Louise, I gotta
one of our posts about to do this luna and
the Institute for Television Studies where we are couple more
things in the program. There is a change to
the dinner time in the program. It is listed
for tomorrow night at seven o'clock will actually be at
eight p.m. So just a little bit later. There
are maps available I think in the bags that mark
out the locations of both the reception tonight, the
dinner tomorrow, the reception tonight will be a wine
and beer and advertisers recession. That is in a
lovely location, a palau which for those of us
who do not speak to humans powers. So there
are many of them here in Barcelona. Um the
palm oil, which is a lovely menu and I
hope you join us. It will be fairly early
so you can socialize a bit and then go to
dinner with your colleagues and then we'll have the big
group conference dinner tomorrow night. Um, at the
reception tonight we will have a lovely performance of Catalonian
guitar music I'm told it's quite intense, something to
be experienced and I'm looking forward to it. Uh
but we will have plenty of opportunities both tonight tomorrow
and the brakes for socialization and network, which is
the main a key part of this conference is really
to enable people to come together that maybe have worked
in the past or maybe have never met one another
before and to have an opportunity to discuss these and
possibilities a collaboration. I would encourage anyone who has
not seen the monograph the volume of the first event
to take a look at it extremely available online.
And the final chapter at the end of these identifies
these 47 points of prospective alignment. Now, the
seven action sessions that are at this event are obviously
not covering all of the perspective points of collaboration that
were identified in the volume, but we think they
will make a good start and we think just to
be practical, we have to start somewhere and starting
somewhere is better than not starting. So this is
at least an opportunity to begin to explore some of
the potential ways across these different tracks in terms of
technical specifications, organizational information sharing in many other types
of collaboration that you will find the action products,
because we will have to take people to the rooms
, they are located in different parts of this complex
. I would encourage you to think head about the
action sessions that you want to attend. So,
you know which group to go with the volunteers will
lead you to the various venues. Yeah, as
we get started, I would like to thank the
program committee. Could members of the program committee that
have been working on this for so long? Stand
up or hold up your hand here just a moment
. Thank you. I would very much like to
thank the sponsors who are too numerous to go through
individually, but you will find all of them listed
in the inside cover of the program and this event
would not have been possible without them. Um,
this events of this type take a lot of resources
to put together and we very much appreciate all of
the sponsors and their contributions. I think they are
and they are leading these digital preservation efforts in many
different ways. We had a large cross section of
different types of sponsors, nonprofit organizations, universities,
corporations, all sorts of different groups. And we
very much appreciate all of you conditions. You will
hear more about the aims in the discussion in each
of the planetary panels as they come up in just
a moment again, we're going to go to our
kina. But first I would like to invite police
Anglada, my colleague here Barcelona to come up and
say a few words thank you. This is wasn't
playing because I am doing that. Was created this
our minister of the authorization this Catalonian with MR had
a problem. He's changing his agenda for that.
So real salt because we as representing the local or
committee of the organizing committee, we we try to
align what the weather with the program but we will
survive to align the program with the facilities and I
think that you will enjoy because this room is not
only nice, but also it is comfortable for this
kind of discussion that the sun I meeting these needs
. My name is chris martin suggested, said me
, I am the director of the consortium of Academic
libraries of Catalonia. And uh we have the organizers
together with the National Library of Catalonian Genius. Seven
will uh talk tomorrow. And also we have the
help of the faculty of Library, chief of the
university. The volunteers are students studies in in fact
, so I uh let me say that I studied
here because here this is a historical building. While
the National Library that is a fantastic library was so
fantastic building of fantastic building and also a fantastic library
that I started to recommend to visit. The building
is impressive. It was a hospital till the end
of the 19th century, the 19th century At the
beginning of the 20th century. Even Antoni Gaudi,
the architect of several familiar at the end of his
life, died or was here. We do not
as a leader, but as a because it was
killed. But I say that because all these buildings
and Scottish ones, buildings built at the end of
the 19 century, the the other one still the
platform. You'll see that uh those are very beautiful
buildings. Charity buildings devoted to that to orphans to
the uh so it's a charity, you are in
the inside the whole Barcelona, there was an open
and the opening uh creating this that we call the
shop in the mid nineties. But till now and
this was the creation of a new new city.
But before that they had to build a public buildings
like this one uh in the nineties. Uh so
these buildings host in this moment the national Library and
also this institution called the Students Catalans. That is
like an academy and scholastic society. But it was
also the school of very cheap faculty seven years ago
. So you studying studying here? Uh Let me
say that Catalonia, where we explain, welcome to
Barcelona. Catalonia is a horrible vision of Spain with
his own history and language. And from the point
of view, the relationship with people are history.
Because the first school of the chief european in the
continent, not in UK uh was in Barcelona because
at the time we leave the good moments, you
know the the industrial revolution uh in Spain took place
in the first time in the past country and also
in Catalonia. And the Catalan people at the time
, they wanted to improve the society. They wanted
to improve the society Through improving the studies. So
it seems that it seems quite uh contemporary that now
we are trying to do the same. So they
created more or less 100 years ago. Institutions in
order to help how people came to access to the
knowledge these men schools, technical schools, but also
libraries and public libraries. And the national average probably
talking about that is your specialty and you are represented
. I said that because we have more or less
100 years in in the central it quite complicated in
Spain but where the librarian cheap in Catalonia has really
quite very well represented. I think that we are
quite proud of some of the revenues. The national
libraries, fantastic language that you get to receive not
only owns all books, but also is very active
in the new technologies and starting again, but not
only presenting the easter The the 80s with yourself is
engaged in across sourcing crossing now and leading some cooperative
efforts in order to preserve the memory. We have
Salmon public universities and five privates more or less well
organized, stating that we are quite sorry to quite
modern and we we work together through the consumption,
but also members and found them. But I think
that we need to organize our services, our public
libraries with here. Let me see. 365.
So public libraries. So one for every day.
If you visit us, you get to spend one
. Sometimes life is public. Life is a big
day closed on sunday, so you need more than
one year to visit. All the US spend one
day for each one. Some of these public libraries
are quite new and was so beautiful, well organized
. Sorry for to be proud of that. Within
in the last 20s, firmly our witness, talking
about libraries, the school libraries and also the research
libraries I school like we never had enough power to
be able to be to change the tradition very difficult
people. So I think that we need to think
together. I asked my cattle colleagues here to president
. So if you agree with me that that to
engage and to be a violent know that you need
is to improve the support that we and even to
ourselves. But it is very important in the world
. Process is important in Catalan else. Our results
improved a lot in the last 15 years. We
have a good results in the if we compare the
situation and the production our results are not. Uh
huh. So what if you compare the buttons and
application But also in my opinion, information is uh
will be very very important in the process process and
when it is too uh to show to the processes
that we as all Iranians, we came to add
value to offer services. This includes, this includes
the preservation of the electronic uh information on the internet
data. This from a from a european perspective,
a member of the legal war we will board is
has a new strategic program. The new station problem
is very clear. We want to shape the whole
library and we want to be engaged with the new
president of the new preserves libraries need to be more
useful to the process that has been in the past
or in a different way that has been in the
past and to be to be more useful for themselves
. This means to open noodles to be uh to
be able to forget because we still need that.
But we save uh resources in the division of arias
that libraries invested resources like at the logging, organizing
different collection and to open do those to help people
to put the outputs of the research in open access
to assist researchers in open the making like that.
But also to help process is to collect the data
to organize the data to put the Federated to present
something to collect to present everybody. Thank you to
be here. I know that travel is difficult.
We have we all have a lot of today.
It seems that doesn't always ask to take one week
to travel. So thank you to be here.
I am sure that the conference will be great and
we in representation of it was Jamie. Uh huh
. Ernesto is being of the faculty. We woke
up to Barcelona. We want for you agree sitting
for this conference thing.