I’d like to start my remarks by talking about our end game: achieving the full power for the open sharing and reuse of research data, some of the big obstacles in front of us, and how I feel we might overcome them. Given the group assembled here I’m optimistic about how we might work across our network and push through. As a follow on to their Building Data Resilience through Collaborative Networks Symposium, the Educopia Institute published a blog series featuring each of our presenters. This is the second.