Conference 2007: closing comments
Simon Tanner sums up the last three days in just five words: collaboration, visibility, invisibility, mass and tomorrow.
Collaboration: the hardest thing we do - sitting down and committing institutions to work together and achieve common goal - not easy - underlying thread is that it matters and is taken seriously by everybody here and participates strongly
Visibility: how do we lobby better, say what is being done by this community matters - need to take away the message that the users are interested in the content, driven by content not by who is providing it - content is king in this sense - making it visible is very important
Invisibility: user does not want to have to worry about how they get to the content - just want it to be there - want tools to be invisible - real challenge is how to make the content and some of the brands visible and therefore values but at the same time make the process as invisible as possible
Mass: take the word on both usages - mass as in a lot of something but also in its physics sense - density. How dense is that mass? and look at the fact that there is a lot of density in this digitisation programme - a lot of content is unique, important and valuable even if not a million pages
Tomorrow: spent last two days talking about what will happen next - important that have that focus on tomorrow but do not allow the present to become the enemy of the future, not to become constrained by the now - want to take from today ‘what are you going to do tomorrow’? The blog, the networks you’ve created will still be there - look to the future and see tomorrow as a fresh field to take these projects into.
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