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| Convening Sessions |
During the summer and fall of 2001, the Library of Congress embarked on a program of listening and learning. An important component of this process were three convening sessions, held in November of that year. These sessions were supported by a series of interviews with a broad range of experts and six environmental scans. The report on the sessions, background information on the interviews and the scans themselves are available in the Background and Planning Documents section of this Web site.
One hundred forty individuals representing a range of stakeholder communities, primarily among content creators, distributors and users, were invited to participate in one of three 1-1/2 day sessions in Washington in November 2001. About 70 people attended one of the three sessions for all or part of the program. They represented media and entertainment (film, television, music); scholarly, textbook, commercial and newspaper publishing; research libraries; heritage preservation organizations; universities; private foundations and independent authors and artists as well as representatives of other interested federal agencies. Many attendees had experience across multiple functions and industries, enriching the conversations through their diverse personal experiences and informed perspectives. Dinner on the first night was followed by an all-day session, moderated by Peter Schwartz of the Global Business Network, who was assisted by Richard P. O'Neill.
Participants voiced consensus behind the initiative, willingness to seek collaborative solutions and a sense of urgency. There was also consensus behind some form of distributed or decentralized solution, involving multiple entities and possibly affording varying degrees of access according to groups of users. Frustrations were shared over the multiplicity of formats, rapid technological changes, hardware and software obsolescence, both too many and too few technical standards, the formal and informal standards-setting processes and problems associated with playback (which are particularly acute for film, television and sound as well as early computer files). Representatives of film, television and music industries agreed that there are substantial technical differences among the formats, despite commonalities, and there is a question as to whether it is better to subdivide and focus on the issues that arise within formats or to start by trying to solve the commonalities. From the perspective of the library community, one senior university official noted, the challenge is going from a model based on loaning information that the institution owns to a model based on providing access to information that the institution does not own.
The topics covered in the convening sessions include:
- Archiving: Whose responsibility?
- Protecting intellectual rights and other sources of tension
- Who should pay?
- Technology
- Preservation and access
- Priorities and next steps
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