It is Thursday noon our folks, Ted Ralston here, hosting our show, Where the Drone Leads at Think Tech Hawaii in Honolulu. Actually we transpose ourselves to the Quaisaline et al. for today's show. And in an incredible turn of events we have three excellent gentlemen here representing Quaisaline here with us. We have the Mayor of Quaisaline, Harata Kubo. We have the Director of Education for the et al. That would be Jelton and Jane. And we have Scott Paul, who is the City Manager for Quaisaline. So thanks very much for coming out of this show. Came all the way across the Pacific to come to our one half hour show, right? I like that. Actually we have Greg Nakano, who a lot of you our viewers know, a Ph.D. candidate at UH, sitting in the background here, if we go offline in any way he'll fix that for us. But if the table was bigger we'd have Greg here with us. And I think we need to talk to our production staff here about bigger table or two layers or something like that. This show is so popular. So many people want to be on it that we need bigger space. Anyway, thanks for coming on gentlemen. This is your first time on the show. But we can actually get you on by Skype when you're back in the islands as time is appropriate. But why would we have Quaisaline present here at the City Administration level, at the mayor level, at the Commissioner of Education level on our show about drones. This is actually kind of an incredible coming together of initiative of STEM and of opportunity and NASA funding and once again the initiative of Greg Nakano sitting in the background here. We're talking about a program using drones in the islands to generate hands-on collection of information dealing with awareness of what's coming at the islands that the individuals in the schools and in the homes can actually participate in collecting information about their own circumstances and then try to figure out together what to do about it. So drones, an amazing opportunity here and something we wouldn't ever have thought. And we must thank NASA for having funded a program called EPSCORE which will help us move forward. But from the perspective that you've got, Mayor, what's coming at the islands? What's coming at Quaisaline? What's coming at the islands within the at all in terms of future issues in the environment here that we need to hear about more and that you can advise us on by this means? Okay, then to do this I'd be more comfortable by speaking my own language. So these two Quaisalines will maybe interpret it or translate it? Well translate, okay. Every word is going to come out of my mouth. Okay. Let's do it. Thank you. First of all, thank you for this opportunity. Quaisaline is, or he by, is One Island. One of 98 or something like that? Yep, but One Island is one mile, so I'm going to speak my own language. He buys a small island where we come from. He buys a small island which is one mile long and it's so densely populated that there's not enough space for even opportunity to arise out of. So there's about roughly 11,000 to 15,000 people on eBuy and the purpose of our stay here, our trip here is to find opportunities that we can offer for the children of eBuy. Okay. Our priorities are number one priorities. Jalalavijan, Anajir Uro, Anijum Jalalai, we build the future and we join Ejimur and Ajir Uro, Anabara, Jijum Jalalai. So Mayor's priorities during his tenure would be for educated, creative, more reasonable and how do you say, practical education for the people of eBuy and also health and these are the two major priorities that he's working on right now. Okay. So education is the key to understanding what's coming at us in the future and health is the product of having done the education properly and having done some kind of remediation in such property. And then operating the education system, which is where Jolton fits in the picture, sounds like it's key to achieving the Mayor's goals here and then you have to execute the plans that come out of that as city manager. After all, there's ways here. That's why the whole nation is represented here by you guys coming on this trip. So tell us about the kind of threats that are coming. We understand there's a number of small islands in the atal and you're in situations of very low islands, so they can't take much in terms of sea level rise and the... Okay. City manager, can you go ahead and collaborate on that one? Come on, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. That's your job. Okay. Good job. The threats that we're facing right now is facing the climate change. We are the first of the climate change. I know that it's knocking on Hawaii's doors, but right now we're living climate change. We're living inundations, we're living herosians, we're living sea level rise, and now it affects our food and water sources back home since these are low-lying highlands. We do not have mountains, so our major freshwater source would be our waterlands. And since sea level rise is happening, it affects our drinking water source. So we've gone through other means of producing water by reverse osmosis units, and that's basically what we're depending on right now. But it still doesn't help with our crops on the outer islands, which do not have this type of technology, except for eBuy, which is where that we are on. But there are some other islands on Kuala Lumpur that are populated that do not have this type of technology and do not have this type of program in regards to food security and water security. So these are other things that we want to address through this drone program that NASA has scored NASA grant that we're engaging in. And with this drone program, we should be able to start measuring some of the factors that are going on, at least characterize the landform, characterize the shape, characterize water locations and such, and observe over a period of time the trends of what's going on. Because by 2023, the Compact of Free Association ends, except for the economic package that goes for a quadruple, and it goes on to 2066 with a 20-year option of renewal to 2086. However, during this time period from now until 2023, we want to establish some data that we can, with these types of programs, with this program, the escort grant, that we can produce after 2023 in order to seek out other assistance if ever needed. But at least we have data that can actually tell us how climate change is affecting the islands. And I'm sure with this type of data, it all ties into not just the GCF mapping and all that, but it also ties into the education factor and health factor. It could also be, you know, we have a project coming up, the shoreline protection project within the next couple of years, and I think these data will be coming out of this project that the students will be doing, you know, the DGEM, digital elevation map. Right, DGEM, right. Yeah, we can use those data to see where it's really effective badly, and we can advise the contractors to, you know, make that protection stronger on that side of the island. So actually, that information you collect could be used to drive the models that are used to determine what the reconstruction has to be or whatever the remediation might want to be. In fact, something just came to mind as we're sitting here talking. There's a guy who used to work at Bellows Field on Winner-O'ahu, that is an Air Force recreation and Marine Corps training ground on the other side of this island, Craig Gorsuch. I would like to hook you up with Craig Gorsuch. He now works, I believe, in the Navy side of the house. I don't know, Greg, if you know if you've met him or not, but Craig has done about a five-year environmental remediation on the sand dunes and the beach area at Bellows and has observed the relationship between the retention of sand and the vegetation that's growing there, the type of vegetation, the big trees. We have these imported Australian ironwood trees, which make the sand storage very difficult, and he's removed those, believe it or not, and found the sand process naturally powered has returned, and he's looking at beach vegetation as opposed to trees as a way to unlike what you might think, actually make the beach and the dunes more healthy. So I will absolutely put you guys in touch with Craig, maybe even, how long are you going to be here this trip? I'm going back tomorrow. Okay. Yeah. All right.  We have emails, so we'll put you in touch with Craig and let his environmental work on Bellows Field have influenced to the extent it can on you, and we've actually used drones there, too, to collect the DEM, the overhead imagery of what the current situation is in order to have a comparison basis for the future. So yeah, so we have some things here we can offer ahead and thought of before. I would call them quickly executable and not rocket science, but they lead to a great understanding that can be put in the hands of people right away. So we can take our first break here, in fact, our only break, and we'll get back after one minute and talk about how we take these steps forward. Okay. All right. It is still the noon hour on Thursday, folks. Ted Rawson here, downtown Honolulu, momentarily transposed to Kwazaleen Atoll with three gentlemen who are basically running the whole show on Kwazaleen these days. In fact, while you're here, I wonder who's in charge, right? We have... Thank you, Ted. Well, thanks for coming on. Thank you, Ted. Jolton and Jane and Scott Ball. And we have the commissioner of education. We have the city manager. And we have the mayor of the entire atoll here, a very critical area in the central western Pacific. And we were talking before the break about the threats that are coming at you. You identified the threats and Scott then amplified them to some extent. And we talked about what your suggestion was, was to use this drone program in the hands of the education system distributed to the kids and their families who may have an interest and may have an appeal for this technology to use that to illustrate to everybody what's going on, not just the island, but to the world, frankly. So how do we actually start something like that? Because editorially, we don't have anything like that here. We have little clubs. We have small groups of people who are four in a school or something like that. We don't have anything organized across an entire school system dealing with something as critical as what you're dealing with. So assuming we have the capability, the knowledge, and the equipment, how do we actually take something like drone functionality into your school system and get it to take root and become self-managed and self-executing? Don't feel any pressure. Yes. Yeah, what we have, we're in partnership with UH Manawa, NASA, and University of Guam, and College of Marshall Islands. And through College of Marshall Islands, the drone projects comes to Guadalcan, to the Guadalcan school system. What we're trying to establish is to get interested young groups of students, maybe sophomores and juniors, maybe 25 from all the schools, public and private schools on eBuy, to start, we want to get them to get their interest in learning this technology and actually to build it and after building it to fly it and take, like I said, elevation map of our shorelines. And the idea behind the reason why we, the mayor and the city manager of myself, we jumped and grabbed this project was our island has been known, or the region, Guadalcan region has been known as the second lowest when it comes to our national STEM dash test results. So we think with the innovation of STEM education, like the drone project and these hands-on activities will bring back that motivation that the students themselves are losing nowadays because like when we were, we are all island boys and our ways of learning back then was by observation and by actually doing it. Perfect, no good drone. Yes. And nowadays we're like stuck in one wall, one four-wall room trying to learn from books and kids are. How do you say the adopted way of, the adopted way of learning? And it took away the hands-on and the tactile feedback and the expression of that interacting with the environment. Kids are, that's what we're trying to do to bring all these projects to the role. Let me just say this, back then the so-called traditional way of learning, like the teacher stands in front of the school and lectures, the classroom and lectures us during while we sit and take notes, I was bored, I was bored back then. Hey, you're not the only one that can confess that one right here. It's modernizing. Yeah. So, getting back to Jeldon, I just wanted to point that out. Okay, you got it. So, project-based learning, that's what we're talking about, project-based learning which is maybe what was done in the past. Project-based learning, place-based learning, threat-based learning in this case. We get the students to go out into the field and that's how they will, by experiencing what they're learning in place. That's cool, because as you say we don't do that with the four walls, but there's another side to this, if I can suggest. Yesterday we witnessed this in the Delmarat Asimov's lab, Evan Kamamuro was sitting there on the computer dealing with the different gains and compensations in the flight control system and observing the behavior changes on the drone because of that technical change. So there is a second layer in here as well, and that's how does this drone actually work? What's inside of it? What's the math going on there? What's the means by which it does what it does? And is there a better way to do it? Is there a more efficient way to do it? Is there a way that works better in the hands of the user? So that is to me is a fascinating subject and get some kids interested in that because the technology evolution that's going to be required for drones requires workforce development, requires the folks who understand the insides as well as how the thing operates on the outside. And it's good that you brought that up, because Mary and Jeldon can really elaborate more on what our goals are, because the overall goal is for us to create a pathway from the elementary level all the way up to the university level, even PhD. And this drone project is just the gateway. We want to use it as a gateway to stimulate interest from the grassroot level, like the elementary students, middle school students, because if I remember, if you cannot get the student interested in this, in engineering or any other types of fuel by the time they're in middle school, then it's a lost cause.  There you go. So that pathway that the mayor wanted to create from the grassroot level all the way up to PhD level, all that, this is something that we want to establish right away. And Jeldon can elaborate more on how these programs fit into it, these building blocks leading up to the university level. Oh, wow. It's going to be a lot of work, but it's worth it. Yeah, I think right here on the show, they just obligated themselves to serve this mission for a while here. Oh, man. We have so much work to do, we've got to do it. That's what we're here for. Yeah, besides the drone project that we're doing, we have other STEM ideas that we want to bring to our students, like the Marine Science. Yeah. And you saw some of that yesterday, I think, at the Jack Trimble's lab. Yes. Marine Science activities that will be done during our summer camp in 2018 in July. We have a summer camp that is coming up. We're trying to fit in the drone education summer camp, Marine Science, by sailing club and theater drama into that one. So all of these are active, you know, we are learning. That's how we can get our students to be motivated to learn. I'm glad you brought in the theater and expressive arts aspect. I think we don't pay enough attention to how important that is, at least in my personal education and such. And oftentimes engineers and scientists have a difficulty expressing themselves or reacting to how people need to have information provided. If we ran them all through an acting class, they might be one step closer to being able to communicate in a dynamic environment in a way that isn't quite what they had thought about in the first place. In fact, going back in the history of engineering, basically a lot of what is in engineering today is characterizing observations people made in the past using terms that the artists actually created, like force and thrust and work and energy. Those aren't terms that came out of engineering, they came out of philosophy. And then engineers figured out, okay, there's probably a structure we can wrap around that word, now we'll calculate how to do it. So there's a tie between engineering and art that I think in our modern situation we've separated somewhat and you outlined a path that connects it all together in a very critical and timely environment, I might say. So doesn't a thought go through my mind if I can ask you. The kids say seven, eight, nine years old, you know, second, third, fourth grade, something like that, they're going to be starting this program. Their perception, they can't have a perception that there's a threat coming or a risk coming. I've heard that, but they don't know how to internalize it. They don't know how to make it personal. Is that something that you will strive to do in this drone program to measure something, measure how the changes are occurring and let them express that in a threat that they can, that they can aren't frightened by, but they can be rationally inspired to go work on? I was going to mention the resolution that we talked about. There's a resolution that we're planning on passing this coming full council for Quadri-Linato. It's about incorporating climate change into the curriculum for the public school systems back in the e-bac. Okay. So you have a framework in which this information can fall. And that'll actually tie him down, it'll tie him down to make sure he gets it done. Well interestingly enough, we have a resolution going through the legislature here that generates a working team to figure out how to use drones properly within all the custody issues and all the privacy and all the land ownership. We've had to tie those two together. And we don't have, I don't think, have a climate change motivation yet, but we should certainly tie these together. You know, while you said that, a perfect test site for that to practice what you want to do there in regards to drones would be Quadri-Linato because I don't think there's any regulation. Okay. That's great. So that's an offer to us. Yeah, that's an offer to you with the consent of the mayor, the leadership of Quadri-Linato. And making sure it fits in the education system. Yeah, there you go. So let's keep this conversation going. Our show is about out of time here, it does go by pretty quickly. Let me just thank you for coming on, first of all, mayor and commissioner of education and city manager. And let's keep the conversation going. But can you give us one last word of guidance to these guys, first of all, that they do the job right? That's number one, of course. But what would you like us to do collectively, Hawaii and Marshall Islands together? What would be number one on the hit parade, the things we ought to do together to move forward here? Wow. Yeah. That is a good question. I have so many. We can get it next time. We'll get you on by Skype on the show next time and... And then, by the end of the year. Okay? By the end of the year. The vendor. Just that continued collaboration. It's collaboration. Yeah. Excellent. Because the last time I came here, I went to a mayor office. Yes. And then we were actually on the, on the end. That was tight. Yeah. And so, it's something that you got to go and try to... Okay. Primo. Are you familiar with Primo? It's a city here. But... The Pacific Risk Management, Ohana, that has an annual conference every year that talks about these things. We'll take care of that offline because we are out of time, but Primo might be an opportunity to connect in with the evolving themes and such that are taking place elsewhere as well. Anyway, mayor, thanks for coming on the show. Thank you, Ted. Thank you. It was a pleasure. Thank you very much. Once again, Jelton. John. Jelton.  Jelton. Okay. And we'll see you guys on Skype next time. Yeah. And we'll hook you up with Greg Garshups, who is good at environmental work on the beach. And then we'll figure out some way to make collaboration a permanent connection between us all. Thank you. All right. Okay. Mahaa.


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Hello everyone, I recently had the distinct pleasure of finishing 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, a game I had played and loved back when it first released, but never finished because I'm quite lousy with action games that require shooting on console. I'll soon deliver you a much lengthier examination of the game and its PC port. Hopefully very soon indeed, but before I do I wanted to spend some time talking about the shifting context of secondary information sources, namely text data points in Horizon Zero Dawn. We are, I'm afraid, not going to talk about my crippling crush and alloy today. Here's to hoping we touch on that next week. For real? I mean, maybe. Be advised. The following video will spoil one of the big mysteries of Horizon, the fate of the old ones, i.e. of a future version of our own civilization. If you're not familiar with Horizon Zero Dawn at all, its events have set a thousand years into the future, and follow a young outcast, the aforementioned alloy, as she attempts to discover her place in the world and to figure out its mysteries. As for the structure of this video, we are going to go through a data point or two, which I'll interpret in a few sentences. Then I'll play outtakes of the key cutscenes which shift the context, as it were, and we'll go back to those same data points, re-examining them now in view of this key information. The first data point is what scares me, and is the account of an anarchist who has found an enjoyment and purpose in the fight against the machines. It's a searching, questioning account, and a very good piece of companion fiction on its own merits. But what I'm interested in is the notions that its ending creates in the reader's mind. All I know is we've got to fight until Zero Dawn is ready. If I end up surviving this, guess I can worry about my politics then. How many action movies and apocalyptic pieces of media have you seen that adopt that same wishful tone? How many of them eventually turn things around? Our second text data point is just God back. Here things are somewhat bleaker, especially when it comes to that last, oh my god, but hope is very much alive. Project Zero Dawn is that light in the darkness, the savior that will redeem humanity's sin of hubris. Despite the bad songs, everyone clings to the belief of Zero Dawn as humanity's salvation. In the face of overwhelming odds, in the face of this paired notion that survival is possible, that the turning point must be near, is deeply embedded in the reader's mind. Decades of hide randomly in entertainment has calibrated our minds to leap to the conclusion that things will turn around. It goes as far back as the story of David versus Goliath, maybe even further. But is it the way this story goes? Let's take a look at these cutscenes to find out. If you'd prefer a short description of their main points, skip to the timestamp in the video or description below. Three key moments I'd like to point you to. The first is the conversation between Faro and Doctor Elizabeth Sobek. This one confirms and expands on what the player has known, that the old ones fell and machines are the root cause for it. Is what I tell them. Sign, and I'll tell them the wealthiest corporation on earth has guaranteed the funds necessary to build Zero Dawn. Exactly as I've designed it. Or don't sign, and I will make sure they and everyone else on this planet knows the real cause of the glitch. Jesus, Liz. You don't have to threaten me. I'll sign. Look on the bright side, Ted. From here on out, you get to do what you've always been good at. Footing the bill while others get their hands dirty. God forgive me. The machines themselves are of course of human make. And whatever glitch turned them against humanity, well, it's Faro's fault that it is impossible to fix this. So far so good. The second is Gerald Harris. Voiced here by the brilliant Toby Longworth, who reveals the true nature of Operation Enduring Victory. The wide-ranging military campaign that is referenced in data points both overtly and covertly. Here's why. By the time the glitch was noticed, it was already too late. Nothing could stop the Faro plague. Nothing can. Its robots will continue to replicate and devour the biosphere. Life on earth will be destroyed. Our planet reduced to a barren sphere. Global extinction is inevitable. No matter how many we kill, the robots just keep exponentially making more. If we had their deactivation codes, we could shut them all down. The entire swarm. But since their cryptographic protocols use polyphasic entangled waveforms, cracking a code set would take half a century. At best, we've got 16 months. Not exactly what you call a survival option. The destruction of a biosphere is not the sort of apocalypse you can wait out in a fallout shelter or a space station. There will be no birth left to reclaim. Just a lifeless, toxic rock with several million Faro robots on it. Hypernating. Waiting for something to eat. This is where the turn that shift begins. We're told in no uncertain terms that there's no stopping the Faro plague. The world is doomed, and with it all of humanity. Yet it's obvious humanity has lived on. How is it that this has come to be? Then since the writers of guerrilla games are not charlatans, you can rest easy, knowing we're not unaware fragments of some self-conscious AI's daydreams. The final piece of the puzzle is revealed by Dr. Sobek here. Elizabeth Sobek. You've heard the bad news, and it's all true. The Faro plague is devouring the biosphere. Life itself will cease to exist. But does that have to be the end? What if we could give life a future? What if we could build a kind of seed from which, on a dead planet, life could blossom anew? This is the aim, the hope, of Project Zero Dawn. To create a super-intelligent, fully automated terraforming system, and bring life back from lifelessness. Now over the days to come, you'll learn how all these functions, all these pieces that you'll be working on, fit together. How we'll race the clock to execute our harvest initiatives, write the software, build the tech and the facilities. How we'll lock it down and seal it up before the inevitable occurs. But even more important, you'll know how it doesn't end here. How Gaia will generate those deactivation codes General Harris talked about, and build the transmission arrays to broadcast them, shutting down the Faro robots for good. How Gaia will not just build, but imagine any conceivable robot it needs to do its work across centuries. From detoxifying the Earth's ravaged atmosphere and poisoned seas, to the regreting of the Earth from cryopreserved seed stocks, to rewilding the Earth with animal life, and then, when all that is done, how a new generation of human beings, spawned at cradle facilities around the globe, will partake of Apollo. The vast archive of human knowledge and cultural achievement from which they will learn of us, our world. And most important, how not to repeat our mistakes. It's not an impossible dream. It is within our grasp, if we work tirelessly and stop at nothing to achieve it. We can't stop life from ending. But if you will help me, help Gaia, we can give it a future. Join me and help make that future real. It's a bombshell plan, an audacious beyond measure. Project Zero Dawn is indeed salvation, but in a very different way than the one we'd built up in our minds. So let's recap. What is revealed to us is that the Faro plague, a self-aware swarm host of machines, is slowly but certainly consuming all the biomass on the planet, humans included. To combat this, the Zero Dawn protocols are signed. An operation enduring victory is enacted, one to pave the way to humanity and the Earth's future, the other to pay a blood prize for that future to become reality. Enduring victory is not a story of triumph against unbeatable odds, what we have assumed until this moment to be the case based on the data points we found across the world. It's a blood sacrifice. Let us think back to the data points we examined at the beginning of this video. They read a whole lot more like tragedy now, don't they? When I say tragedy, I use that term in the classical literary sense. Of the humanity that Elizabeth Sobeck belonged to, has suddenly stepped into the role of tragic hero. The Old Ones have risen higher, and dared to dream greater dreams than our lowest people ever could. And on a level above that, this future civilization, from the player's own perspective, is greater than our own, has fixed so many of the sociopolitical issues that plague early 21st century society. But like in classical tragedy, the hubris of the Old Ones eventually brings them to destruction. And that awakens pity, and fear in Alloy's heart, and judging by personal experience in the player's own as well. Back to the data point perception shift. What Horizon does here is not far from what a good mystery thriller does. It allows you to build conjectures through a set of evidence, then follows a paradigm shift.  And what you thought was a firm foundation for your beliefs is suddenly unmoored, dismissed by incontrovertible proof. You lack the correct frame of reference through which to view the structure of the problem in the first place. With this clever series of revelations, the main quest of Horizon succeeds in uprooting your preconceptions. It breaks free of genre conventions, and rises above its generic motifs. And so earns a spot among the best written stories in gaming. If you enjoyed this video, please like it, share it with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe. Any thumbs up help, so do comments. So leave me one, tell me what you think. Did you notice this shift I have tried to capture here? Do you think it's as smart as I do? Because I have to tell you, I have nothing but admiration for the writing staff at Guerrilla Games. And I'm beyond impressed with what they've achieved here. It has been an experience and a half, and I'm looking forward to talking more about my thoughts on Horizon. Until then, I'm Philip Magnus, see you next time. Bye!


To noon, many thanks for being here for the first committee call of the year for the provide service. And today we will have many topic dedicated to the presentation of the main results of the report, government state and future directions for open repositories in Europe. And for this presentation, we have a layer of rigors from University of Birmingham, and I would like to thank you for accepting our invitation to present these main results. So, and today we will have two main parts of our meeting. The first part will be dedicated to present this report. And then in second part, and briefly, we will present some updates and novelties regarding the regarding open air provide related services. And if you have some questions about provide, you can we can dedicate some time at the end also. And in first part, so we'll be presenting the report and we will have also time for for some questions. So, now I'm giving the floor to a layer of rigors and I stop share my screen. Thank you, Andrea. I think you already seen my screen right. Yes. Okay, thank you. Thank you for for the opportunity to participate and to present the main results of the survey of open repositories in Europe that was conducted last year. As I said, I'll try to present some of the main results. Then of course you have the report is available and you can go through it in around 15 minutes and then to save some time at the end to so we can have some questions or discussion, because I'm really sorry but I have to go in, in half an hour I have another meeting starting at three o'clock so I need to attend. As you may most of you probably will remember. The survey was the first step of joint activity to strengthen European repositories that was launched by coir lever spark Europe and open air at the beginning of 2023. And the first activity that we decided to conduct was a survey that was conducted in February and March of. Last year, and the report that was published in December as the main presents the results from from that survey. We collect 3394 valid responses we have more, more than 400, 440 responses but there are many who are not completed or just have a very few questions or were repeated. And so we considered 394 responses from 34 countries. As you may see, there is a spread of responses from most European countries and we had 10 countries where we have more than 50 responses. And for a couple a couple of questions we analyze because of the complexity we analyze those 10 countries that had more than 50, 50 responses. The majority of the respondents and the repositories, three quarters of almost 75% of repositories are based in universities. And then we had also around 40% that were based in other research units. Again, as I said at the beginning I will just show the results of some of the questions from the majority of the questions anyway but but not all of them so the on the report to find some more questions than the ones that I will end results and the ones that I will address here. So regarding the content type on repository so we found that the big variety of content types in repositories, but we need to interpret this, this slide. So we, we asked what were the three main, we identify what were the three main content types in repositories and so articles, published articles were on the three main content types of three quarters of 75% of repositories. Also, these in this situation, see 57% and all the other numbers that you see. And, and research data was, was also the was on the three most common content types in 21% of repositories. So this was just a very quick comment. We have data repositories and publication repositories reply so repositories when the more the most frequent content type was data and repositories were most content frequent the most frequent content type was publications that was the majority. On the publication repositories or where publications were the most common content type we find a great, great variety of content types, while in repositories on data repositories or repositories where data was the most frequent content type, the variety of content types or or less frequent so they were more kind of more specialized in, in data. Regarding the size of the collections, there was also a huge variety with around 20% or a little bit more than 20% are really small repository with less than 1000 items. And, but the vast majority as between 1000 and 50,000 items so around almost 60% of of repositories are on that kind of of size. And then we also have a small number of very big repositories from Europe, PMC as replied also to the survey, and they have reported 8 million items on the repository. We have done an average for both for institutional repositories and for other types of repository so domain data repository and national and for the institutional repositories the average collection size is roughly around 65,000 items, while for the other types of repositories the average collection size is close to 400,000 items. Also regarding the language there is a kind of a variety of language is while the majority of repository English is the most common most used language in several countries is that is the most used language, but in other countries we have the national languages, or the most that's the case, for instance for for for Croatia, Portugal, Poland, and Spain for for instance, and then we have the other the other English is also present as the second most common per language on those countries. We also had a question about the participation or if the repository was part of a national level service or network and we have almost 50% replies from 51 said yes and 49 said no, as you can see here, there there is big differences between countries so there is, for instance, in Spain, Portugal, Croatia, the vast majority of repositories reply that were part of a national service or network, while in other countries like for instance, Germany, or Switzerland, the was the other way around the vast majority said that they were not part of the national network. And also, while we analyze the replies even for country we understand that that might be some inconsistency on the replies because we are from the same repositories or the same type of repository saying that they were part of a national service network and others say no. And that might be the case that some are parts and some are not but I've been other cases, we have we have a suspicion that there was not a common understanding of what was a national service or network where also the question about where the repository was hosted, as you can see here, around 60%, probably be more than 60% were locally hosted, but there is already also a significant number of repositories that are hosted by an external provider. And there is also variations on also a national level here. Regarding the software platform used for by the repository, as you can see here, this space represents more than 40% or also more than 40% of European repositories and other very used platforms are ePrint, Fedori, Landora, there are also other like in venue, OPPOS, and other and pure also that were indicated as being used for the repository. And there is also 80% of locally so reported locally developed the platforms that are hosting the repositories. One very important thing is that more than 60% of repositories said that they have installed add-ons or patches. So they are not running on the vanilla code of the platform, but they have installed some kind of, they've made some kind of localization or add-ons or patches. And that if you count that also 16% replied that they don't know, so probably at least some of those 16% were also patches and add-ons. So probably the percentage of repositories that have some kind of additional code on top of the base code of the platform is probably close to 70% then of 60%. We asked also when was the last time that the platform went through a major upgrade and when was the next upgrade plan and we are kind of, at least I was a little bit surprised because apparently the vast majority of repositories were upgraded kind of recently, so we have about more than 60% that were upgraded on the last three years and if we count for four years, so since 1990, it's almost 80%. And the repository is also reported that almost half of them were planning to upgrade in 2023. It's not clear if that is really happened. This may be related with this phase seven upgrade and probably because of maybe this is kind of postponed for 2024, there was already also 14% of repositories that were planning to upgrade this year or next year, but there is also, there was also a significant number of repositories that didn't have any plan for 36% for upgrades. One important, very important aspect for us is that regarding open-air guidelines compliance that only 22% of repositories reported that they are compliant with version four of open-air guidelines and we have more than 25% that said that they are not compliant with any open-air guidelines and 42% that were compliant with old versions of the open-air guidelines, so this is something that we need really to take into consideration. Regarding IDs, regarding object IDs, so resources IDs, the majority of repositories are using persistent identifiers like DOIs or Andals, so only 10% did not assign any type of persistent identifier. But the situation is different regarding authority identifiers where the percentage of repositories that are not using any type of authority identifiers is significant, it's about one quarter, so 25%. Most repositories have in place curation processes, again, only a small number, 23 of the respondents say that they have no curation processes and also a similar situation we have regarding statistics, so the majority of repositories said that they have some kind of statistical services, the majority have local repository statistics but then also and only a small fraction of around 10% or less than 10% said that they have no statistical information, they are not collecting any statistical information. Regarding preservation, policy also, the vast majority of repositories said that they have a preservation policy but again, but still the number of repositories with no preservation policies still very important also. And regarding certification, the situation is even more, the number that have no certification is even higher because only 82 of the more than 350 respondents of this question said that they have, that they went through certification. And then if we look at what they have replied because we asked what type of certification they went through, then if we look to revise then we understand that even of those 82 some have not really go any, they did not went really any type of real certification because, for instance, open air compliance is about complying with the with the guidelines is not really a certification. So, the situation here is just a small number of repositories are real and really went through a certification process. One important question that we had, and the one that was really also out to to to analyze because again we and we then understand that some people did not reply did not understand what the concept of fte's and they have not. So, and we had we had kind of, and that produce kind of outliers that we had to exclude from the analysis, but so with the clean data that we have come to with you, as you can see, the majority of repositories have up to two fte's and that's the most frequent case for institutional repositories. And, and then there is, but there is still a significant number of repositories that have up to four or up to eight fte's, but then when we asked all the time of those fte's were applied in the in the repository. And, as you can see, around half of the effort of of the staff effort is is is going to metadata and content curation, and then 27% is effort for the repository manager manager, and almost 20% is for for technical or technical support. So the last questions that we had was were about the challenges for for the for the repository. And as, and as you can see here, the more the main challenge that was identified was upgrading the software to to new versions, and also employed skill staff and underfunding and the, the, the, the, for instance, content recruitment. That probably was something that in some time ago or in other context we hear a lot of as a main problem was not ranked as one of the, of the biggest, one of the biggest problems here. And we asked what type of activities would be most most helpful to to to address the challenges. And this is also a bit of a surprise because the thing that was most that is clear that it was ranked first is it was advocacy. And, and then the other two were related with the community with the community of practice for for technical support and coordination of repository is a national or regional level. We have also significant number of replies for training and a lower number of replies for for regarding the national regional platform for hosting repositories and this is also something that is interesting. So, to conclude and to have at least five minutes for for questions and take a little bit more time to take that to I expected. The main conclusion is that collectively European repositories, they really are an important assets and the very important part of the infrastructure for for the for open science in Europe. Because they probably collectively, they, they, they, they provide access to to tens or probably hundreds of millions of research outputs of different of different types. And the majority, so about three quarters of repositories are based in universities and universities are well long sustained and well established institutions. They think they have they provide a kind of sustainability for the repositories and the current collections are being well used by by by the research community and and not only the research community. But we have identified also three main challenges. One is maintaining the, the, the, the current infrastructure, especially the, the software platform so maintaining in the update especially about dating software platforms, then applying good practices in terms of metadata preservation and and user statistics. And the third is the to to secure appropriate visibility on the scholarly ecosystem. And these challenges were related with three things that are also kind of interconnected. One is the fact of managing local software and I think the first and the third are in a way also connected. This is one of the strengths of course of repositories then the distributed nature. And the fact that they are running open source software in, in, in, in, in the report that's replies to, to local needs, but the facts that they are addressing local needs and they have the customization and that and patches is also a problem for instance for the upgrade of, of the of the software platforms. And the distributed nature of repositories makes that in some cases they might be working more than like silos, and they are replicating the same activities and having the same problems in, in different institutions, not creating or not being able to create a kind of economy of scale or trying to address some problems and challenges on on on the collective way. And of course, the third point is the staffing levels of repositories that is that is low. But also we point out some opportunities I think on the last year, the last couple of years, especially into 2023, while we were analyzing repository. There is a kind of a change of climate in Europe regarding repositories and not for profit infrastructures for scholarly communication, and probably the two main examples where the console conclusions from May, and also the most recent document from coalition as about to the call towards responsible publishing that really puts the emphasis on making the scholarly community and scholarly institutions and not for profit organizations on the driver's seat of scholarly communication and this growing interest on on this model of published review curate that that were repositories and pre print service are really at the center of the system. So, on the next couple of months, by the way, we will have the first meeting now in January. Open Air, Libre, Spark, Europe and Co are will will work together to to to develop concrete plans and actions on three main areas. So one is advocacy, highlighting the value of repositories. The second one is to propagate best practices for repositories across the repository community. And the third one on assisting with the creation and coordination of national networks. So, as I said, the report is available in in Zenodo, so you can go through it. And by the way, just to finish and stop sharing my, my screen. But if you already, if you have ideas and suggestions on how open air Spark Europe core core and Libre can really contribute to address these challenges. Then we will be very happy to hear from you. And I stop here and I have five minutes I'm sorry, five, just five minutes for questions or comments. Hello, for your presentation. So until now, we don't have any question in the chat but please feel free to have your questions in the chat or open your microphone and put your question. As we have some time for a comment on the results that have been presented. For sure, open air will share some of the upcoming developments. But these next steps that I referred so we will also try to bring you these these novelties in the provide committee calls. So we can follow up these developments. If we do not have any questions I think we can move on to second part, and a lot of many things for your presentation, it was very relevant to present these main results and then people can go to the report and get more detailed information if they want to know more. Just as we still have one minute. Let me just stress again this. So this work. These are the three areas that we have identified so advocacy, best practices and coordination of, of national repository networks. As I said, we will have the first meeting of the of this organization that the end in a couple of weeks. So if you have ideas or suggestions on actions that open air in the case of open air that we can take to advance on this, we will be really glad that we will outcome your comments and suggestions. Okay. So, thank you very much. And as I said, I'm sorry, but I really need to go to do another meeting. Bye. Okay, thank you. Bye. So now we can have some additional minutes. Let me share again my screen. Just to present some of recent news regarding open air provides and related services. So regarding the index and the statistics update. The current contents that are published in the open air portals are still referring to the update that occurred in November last year. However, the upcoming update will occur during this month. So in the coming days or weeks, the contents, most recent contents will be published. You can always follow these these two pages to follow the updates and to know the changes and updates in each version of the open air graph. So if you are waiting for some content update or from your repository, the updates will occur briefly. The second update I have is also related to the open air graph update. So this last update from November. Introduce some novelties. And we have here three of them. You can you can read more detailed information about these updates on these news items that is linked here. So in this version, the open air graph improve the affiliation extraction to have introduced the affiliation information to more publications. And these can can improve the way that the open air graph can be reused. You can also introduce the field of science for additional for 40 million publications. So, you know, whenever I've already a field of science for some publications, but in this version. Open a graph as for additional considerable number of publications, the fields of science. These accessing and session for publications in open air explore. One of the novelties is also the integration of citations from the open citations pocky dataset. Open air. In the context of open air next project that in the last year have worked with open citations, starting to include data set data sets about citations so Accessing the open a graph. You can also explore this possibility. In the in the upcoming updates of our paragraph is it's expected to have also let's say user interface to explore the citations that comes from the open citations pocky dataset. And, as always, we will we want to highlight our public roadmap in which you can follow the coming updates, you can also contribute heading comments for some features you would like to have or to improve in the provide dashboard. And also important, our help desk support. So, every time you have questions you can write to do the best of open air to this email address get open to you. Open air have a new ticket system so sending messages to this email address. Your message will be managed in ticket system and redirected to the proper person to reply to your question. We will, we want also to highlight two upcoming events that we think can be useful for you. The first is the open air coffee break on integrating integrating orchids in repositories and three systems. There will be next week on Monday. You have here the link to find the URL to register to attend this event. And also regarding the open air graph. For this service will also start running community calls. And the first committee call will be also next week in 17 of January at 11 central European time. And it's a great opportunity to follow the coming and most recent novelties regarding open a graph. This session will be managed by Palomangi, the CTO of open air so it will be a good opportunity for you to know more and also to put questions directly to Palomangi to know more or to ask, for example, for some developments of futures regarding the access to open a graph of the way that open air is managing the information in the ecosystem. So you can also find on this URL the link to register. And you can find these, these two events useful for you. And as usual, we try always to record the sessions so even if you cannot attend the sessions. We have available for you to put to see this, these events, just to finalize regarding the open and provide community calls. So we already have scheduled the committee calls for this first semester of the year. So you can already register and the schedule in your calendars that coming meetings. The main topics are not yet defined but month by month we will specify the items that will be discussed in the community calls. So feel free to register. And finally, an allied to our newsletter. And with this newsletter we are trying to disseminate the critical and also I like some novelties regarding not also provides dashboard but also some related topics about open air and also relevant subjects for the data source managers. And that's it from my side. If you want to put some questions about some things regarding the opener provides dashboards or something related with your data source registration in open air. And so we have, we have time in the meeting so you can always use our desk system but if you want to put a recent question here, you can also do. Let me check the shot. Yeah, here on the link to register in the arcade session. Thank you. We're in. If we do not have any question. We can close the session today it was a bit small this this session, but I think it was useful to see these overview of the manner results of the report that is shared with us. We can see more detailed information in the reports. And for sure in the coming committee calls we will share with you the upcoming developments regarding the next steps that alloy share with us. Okay, so we can close the meeting and see you soon. Many thanks. Bye bye.


Thanks for checking out this video. So let's talk about movie pass two reasons I'm doing this video one because I just got some new lighting as you can see it gets so bright when I get my hand close to it But I'm trying that out so I can be in a different location than where I usually am and things should hopefully look better But bear with me while I play along with it But anyway, if you clicked on it, you're here to talk about movie pass movie pass I've been a member since April of this year. So not very long. What's that? Five months almost So and it was kind of like in the middle ish of April when it got activated So I got in on a special deal that was not the 999 or you know, 10 basically 10 bucks a month I got in on a deal that was seven bucks a month with like an extra fee So all was said and done I ended up with $97 that I ended up paying you know that shipping handling for the card because they give you an actual card If you are not familiar with it. I'm not really going to talk about like necessarily how Well, I can't talk a little bit about how movie pass works, but This will be kind of more people looking for my feelings on movie pass in general. So I Been with it for a while Enjoyed it. I've enjoyed how it's worked, but there's been a lot of issue With how the company's been running and I know the stakeholders really know that because they've had a lot of problems with their stock going way way way down and Yeah stockholders not very happy about it. So There's been a lot of outcry especially recently because they made a really big change Their initial thing was $10 a month and you can see as many movies as you want in a year up to one Per day in a theater. So that sounds great, right? You pay this this flat fee per month and you can watch You know depending on the month maybe up to 31 movies in that month if you'd like to So they've done a bunch of different things over time that people have been mad about like adding surge pricing where it would be You know more in-demand movies at more in-demand times They would only cover a portion of the ticket and maybe you'd have to cover like three bucks five bucks It kind of depended then they started doing ones where they weren't allowing people to go to matinee showings Which that was during a portion where I believe they're having a lot of money trouble Which I shouldn't say we're having there still currently having a lot of financial problems, but I Think they'd actually run out of money at that point So they started, you know having saying no matinees and I believe that's because that's when They figured a lot. Most people were going. I'm sure they can look at their analytics and figure that out So they were saying oh, you know, there are a lot of people going at this time So let's just shut those off So then they were having issues with their app because they have an app on the phone where you actually have to check into the movie And then it loads money onto the physical card that you have and it's just kind of used like a credit card So they were having issues where people were looking it up and on the theater saying oh, there's a showing that I can go to I'm going to do I'm going to go do that They drive like 15 20 minutes to get that theater they get there and then they bring up their phone to hit that That actual viewing and you know get there their money added to the card and it's not there anymore So they're kind of playing games like that So a lot of people upset about that and I was upset about that kind of stuff because that's terrible terrible way to do business But they are now at a point where they're saying hey, we are we believe we are good now This is the business model now. So what they went ahead and did they said we're gonna stop with the surge pricing We're going to open up the times way more than we used to I think they're still going to limit Some movies like particular movies that are really really popular I think they're still gonna limit those because like for mission impossible the new mission impossible They were actually just blocking it straight up So I don't know if they're gonna continue to still 100% block some or if they're just gonna block like maybe the opening week Or opening two weeks or whatever that's a little unclear at the moment But they're rolling back a lot of those less popular things But something that's people are most pissed about at the moment is that they said no longer Can you see unlimited movies up to one movie a day? You can only see up to three per month So people are saying oh now I was paying $10 a month to get up to potentially 31 movies But now I'm paying $10 a month the same amount for three movies So people are really mad. How do I personally feel about it? Okay, so I told you I've had it since maybe about mid-April Use it eight times now and it's in early August. So I still have Through February. No, actually, I'm sorry through March. So I still have through March. So I have like eight months Almost I have about eight months left. I've already seen eight movies So calculating it out with like $12.50 per normal movie screening I would have ended up spending about a hundred bucks At this point I only spent 97 so already I'm you know three bucks ahead and That's good and it's only gonna get better from there for me because I have plenty of time left to go see more movies and They said they they did analytics. I don't know if this is true But I could see it being true where they were saying, you know, we looked at it in the majority of our our Our people who subscribe are actually only doing three movies about three movies a month I think I think they said like they're 80% of people who purchased the the the product only go three times a month on average So I kind of believe that especially if you're someone like me like you're busy You have a lot of stuff going on so you kind of try and fit it in where you can How many people really have a ton of time to go to the theater? But I can understand where the people who have a lot of time are like well this sucks There's also the issue of the expectation, you know If you sign up and they have the all these things promised like I did and it was like Unlimited up to one a day and then they start, you know Putting things that you disagree with in the practice like the surge pricing and limiting showings and then they Finally roll it back to oh, it's only three per month. I could see in comparison. You're upset You're saying well, I was getting this value now.  It is still a good deal, you know three movies per month would end up being what like $37 like around like 38 bucks Okay, if you go to those three if you're paying out of pocket So if you're paying $10 a month for $38 worth of movies, you're coming out ahead You're doing just fine and I think that people should kind of calm down about it Yes, it It's a problem all the all the times that they That the company has been up and down with like now we're doing this now we're doing this now We're doing this, but they're trying to figure out how to best do it Have they handled it?  It goes a long way when you are honest So I think if they would have been honest about everything and said look We're in trouble and we want you guys to know that we want to stick around We want to be able to provide the service to you and we don't want to have to jack the price up So we need to figure something out. So here it is instead of just making all these excuses like saying oh our app Crashed or we had this problem or that problem when actually they just didn't have any money Should have been honest people people enjoy that more Way more Including me, but you know, I came to the conclusion I'm good if I can get three a month I mean at the moment I'm sitting at about maybe two a month is what I've been doing so for me personally It's still good. I mean, I'm still getting that value I'd be spending what like 25 bucks in a month, but instead well with my special plan Seven bucks. I was spending seven bucks instead of 25 bucks per month. That's good for me That's very good for me the people and the people still, you know spending the $10 per month It's still a good deal for you guys So if people can't get past it, I would say just try and forget it keep going with the company But I do understand there are a lot of people out there who are still looking at that I was here with what I was getting now I'm here with what I'm getting and that sucks and the company handled it Incorrectly and they did a terrible job and they weren't straightforward. I understand that So you can feel free to hold that grudge And I know that I have definitely held grudges against companies in the past for various things There are still companies at the moment that I don't you know buy anything from because I don't like some of their practices or There have been ways that I felt like I've been wronged by them So I understand that and that's everyone's choice. You do whatever you want with it But my analysis of it is a lot of ups and downs Mainly downs over the past year or so for movie paths. Well, not even in the last year like over the past like four or five months a lot of up downs for them, but we could be on the upswing, you know not from the standpoint of getting better value going forward, but being steady and getting a good value and Getting that great discount and maybe it just stays stable. They make enough money and they're good And you know, maybe it is a situation where down the road when their money their cash flow starts to become more stable They can start taking a look and saying how do we bring more people in? Well, maybe we should start increasing the amount of viewings that people can have of the films You know, maybe they'll then move it to forward Maybe they'll then move it to five per month and then see if they can get more people coming in and up their revenue so I Don't know. I'm just speculating on some things, but Those are kind of my feelings on it Let me know what you think because I really I really haven't talked to all that many people about the whole movie pass situation And I'm just interested to see what everyone's view is on it I mean, I have been on Twitter and seen the hashtag movie pass fail Which actually is kind of fun to look at so if you're on Twitter Just go look at hashtag movie pass fail because some real pissed off people on there And they say some funny slash interesting things so That's mainly what I've been seeing is mainly people who are mad But I've talked to not many people just a few about, you know, their feelings and most people are kind of like Yeah, I don't know So I'd really would like to hear leave some comments down there and let me know your feelings on it Whether you, you know are a movie pass person or you're not a movie pass person, you know From someone on the outside looking in at this debacle What are your thoughts but but more interested on in that people who are in with the company And that's new people and that's older people The other thing I should address really really fast is the fact that I saw some people were really mad because they literally Like a week prior Signed up for movie pass and then that next week is when they were like, yeah, it's not unlimited anymore Now it's just three I could really understand being mad at that point if you so I guess it matters like kind of when you became aware of movie pass how much information you have about their ups and downs and You know, how long it was from when you got it to when changes happen So a lot of factors, but yeah, let's let's talk down here If you guys want more videos talking about these types of topics Not necessarily movie pass in particular, but other you know current events type things especially like nerdy current events type things We can get into that but leave comments down there. 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