Closing Plenary: Utopia for Networked Knowledge in the Library and the Academy
Channel: CNI: Coalition for Networked Information
Date: 2022-12-20

Paul Courant, HathiTrust
 
Suppose that pretty much everything that had ever been published was available on-line pretty much everywhere, and that the legal and technical environments were such that the works would continue to be available for the indefinite future — pretty much forever, on reasonable terms. In such a world it would of course be easy to create networks of knowledge using source material consisting of almost everything that was available almost everywhere. The animating question behind this discussion is simple: why have we been unable to organize libraries, universities, the publishing industry, and related institutions to create such rich networks, and what will it take to get there, or at least to get much closer?

Paul Courant was named the 2022 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award earlier this year, and his closing plenary is the Paul Evan Peters Memorial Lecture.
 
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Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Presented at Fall 2022 Membership Meeting
December 13-14, 2022
 
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