Okay. Ladies on Gentleman. Welcome back. The Sundershining
. I hope you in George your coffee. And after
a very, very interesting program in the last ours,
at beginning of eurer conference.
And before the exciting poster session and poster madness before,
we now here a welcome message from our Hamburg
Senat, Rich Helps as hier in Hamburg to provide,
openside science at all
It's a pleasure and honor for our conference,
to welcome the second mail and senator for science research and their quality, Mrs.
Katharina Figgebank. Hallo everybody, Dr. Timann, Mrs.
Casnorridge. Ich hoffe pronounced correctly. I just checkt,
double checkt. Mrs. Kutschmer, ladies in gentlemen,
welcome to Hamburg. So I just learned you fett sessions
or ready and now we do the official opening.
So after hard day
of work
I think you all still a life. And I see
your faces it, it looks great. A very won't
willcome to you to the 14th international conference on open repositories.
And we just spoken, I learned that you ready matt,
last year maybe the year before. Many different countries,
you've been to Australia, you've been to the US to Kanada
and you've matt in the UK spain, even in Finnland,
but you've never come together in Germany before.
So you have never come together in Germany before.
So you have never come together in Hamburg. It's a
very proud that you took this decision to meet in Germany,
here in Hamburg,
in the second
larges City
In Germany, und es ist really eine greate Honor for
us for Hamburg, und for the government,
I'm representing to be the host of this years conference.
And it's a very special moment for me, to breathe such in international,
and highly, diversified group of users and developers,
working for a viorioty of institutions for Universities, for libraries,
archives, museums, government and through out the world.
It's really impressive, to see such a bunch of very interested and diverse people,
he at a really fits to Hamburg, I think,
and I also hope that you will have your sessions and conference talks and poster sessions,
little bit of time to explore Hamburg.
It's really wellworth doing that especially when you have a whether
like that is not a typical not in German,
not a typical Hamburg whether.
So maybe you've proted from where every you come from.
Also enjoy, enjoy the sun. Yeah,
how every you diverse you are, you all share one go,
you enjoy in the Age of Digitization,
you want to make research visible, reusable and easily accessible for the public.
And with that you are definitely breaking new ground with the
help of open repositories, you are creating the backbone
Of a successful open science environment. And step by step
you changing the nature of scolary communication. And I think that's great. And the world,
that is becoming more and more digitized, this is absolutely necessary,
digital transformation has turned our everyday lives upside down,
no conners of our lives, I been left out,
that's for show.
And soon and an tight generation will have grown up in
a primaryly digital world, computers, the internet,
mobile phones, texting,
Social Networking,
all are second nature
two members of this group
This generation relations technology and is transforming, how we work
and how we consume. And needless to say,
this generation insists on a open knowledge, open source,
digital preservation and open science,
in especially in the age of fake news,
it is more important the never,
to provide the best access to very fight and scientific information.
Of course, it's high time to joining on this
exciting journey, in Hamburg has already set off.
Just last year, we launched our program Hamburg Open Science
and we coming andly call it hoss.
In a rerevation, you most likely have already heard of
Hoss, so, our Hamburg Open Science,
Supports our State Universities, in the use of open repositories.
In sure services as well is infrastructure and fosters the development of open and digital scientific work.
By the end of 2020, our state Universities in Hamburg,
shall operate, oven open Science services.
In the large part of hoss is based in open source software,
we are proud to share our achievements with the community.
And maybe you have the time to talk to Hamburg people also to exchanged,
we have developed and maybe we can learn and take in
some of your ideas you do with your respective Universities,
Libraries, Archives, Governments etc.
This is our go for the near future,
as we want to be at the four front of the digital cultural change,
and we know, it is imbitions, but we believe,
we can reach it, why our we so show about that.
Hamburg is always been a city of change, sometimes ago,
Hamburg has mainly been cine as support and trades men city.
And I think today and over the post years,
Hamburg is grown in to a city of science,
a city of knowledge,
city of innovation of questions and academic discourse and to be
honest we extremely proud that
our four
Clusters of excellence, which is a competitive strategy in Germany,
are attracting more in more researchers from around the world,
we get more in more international scrollers and professors and their family,
coming in and deciding to live here and to research and teaching.
And by now, where you are the moment University Hamburg,
is the biggest University in North in Germany and one of the largest in this country,
and who would have dreamed of this ranking, 100 years ago,
when our first University in Town, was founded.
So it's relatively young compared to other Universities and maybe that is the reason
why we have thought about Hamburg for the past decades,
always as a pots and trades mental.
And now it is slightly changing and all these facets,
the ones you are dealing with digitization and who's the problem so where who are seeking for the choose,
that's science that science in kombination with public services, of course,
with museums with are chrives and be really in the driver seed and I think,
it's the best occasion to be here this year,
because we celebrate the hundreds birthday anniversary of our University.
Ladies in Gentlemen, we know that experts like you need
room to work into research and to exchange ideas
Wir in Hamburg assertant working together exchanging discussing and developing ideas
and approaches and in open environment garanties success, no matter what disziplin country
or continent your originally from. And this is the spirit,
we need to some mount the challenges of our society
today and also in the near future.
And that's why Hamburg supports the open approach your following. So please go ahead,
dive into these years program and continue the exciting journey to
its open science and then breath and high hope you take
some time to also not only connect with your neighbors,
connect with the City and have a couple of brated days here.
Once again, a very won't will come to all
of you and enjoy, your time handle.
Thank you
That is really life