What trends do you see in technical infrastructure and shared services? Where should we target our efforts, individually and collectively?
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Archive for July 18th, 2007
How can we lever greater collaboration and cooperation in the development of e-content standards, tools and architectures?
Moderator Stuart Dempster began the session by acknowledging that the language of digitisation can be a barrier to collaboration and cooperation. Depending where you come from the vernacular changes eg users, stakeholders, audience? There is no lingua franca or digital Esperanto. How can we lever more effective communications?
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What business models have been developed to sustain and improve the provision of e-content to the citizen? What economic indicators do funders and/or publishers use in assessing the cost/benefit of mass digitisation?
Moderator Peter Kaufman kicked off the discussion with a timely tale about Prince or, rather, the Artist Formerly known as Prince. Last weekend the singer gave away free copies of his most recent album, Planet Earth, through a deal with the Mail on Sunday. This angered the Entertainment Retailers Association and its co-chair, Paul Quirke, commented that “with behaviour like this he will become known as the artist formerly available in record stores.” In response, Prince’s spokesperson said that “Prince’s only aim is to get music direct to those who want to hear it”. There is, said Peter Kaufman, a lesson there for us all.
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Sarah Porter, Kevin Guthrie and Pat Manson started the discussion with an overview of what they each consider to be the “big issues” in e-content.
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