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.