They know a lot, and their knowledge is germane to the development of the Web. The anarchy of the Web is one of its more attractive features. Yet the resources are not available to permit endless duplication, reinventing of the wheel, pursuit of dead ends. It ought to be possible for major Web developers to work together to achieve common goals. The Coalition for Networked Information, the Web Consortium, and ACLS itself could offer institutional settings for such collaboration.
Web sites come and go every few seconds.
The content on a given Web site can change one or two times within the course of a day. Thus it's somewhat frightening to realize that the Web is already a part of our national heritage, our cultural heritage. And as such, some aspect of its content must be preserved. People will then be able to generate the tables that they need on the fly through Census Bureau Web services. The private sector will get involved, and different companies will have different ways of producing tables out of the Bureau's Web site.