Document 2.0 panel at Office 2.0 conference
We’ve had a great Document 2.0 panel discussion at the Office 2.0 conference. Noone really knew what to expect, but I think it ended up coming out great – it was almost too short. After a “warm” up period, the room participation was great, and we just could not stop the discussion. I will post a video recording of this session as soon as it becomes available.
I was joined by Ed Chi (PARC), Mitch Grasso (SlideRocket), Jason Harrop (Plutext), Gregg Johnson (SalesForce.com), Luis Sala (Alfresco) and David Terrar (WordFrame) for a lively discussion on the role of Documents in Office and Entreprise 2.0.
If needed, this confirmed that documents still has a very strong role to play in Entreprise 2.0. All participants agreed the essence of the Document 2.0 will be different – moving away from an atomic container of information to an aggregation of evergreen content, capable of self-updating itself, available online and offline, collaboratively edited. Although standards and openness will play a big role, the panel agreed that what is even more important are onramps and offramps to and from traditional, legacy formats.
Where it got even more interesting was the discussion on long-term preservation and records management, and making sure the document will still be available and readable decades from now. It became clear that part of the audience wanted to see cloud computing mature before they could trust their company’s lifeblood such as contract to the cloud.
Ironically, the discussion came back multiple times to paper as being a universal medium, yet to be replaced – interesting twist in a paperless conference!
It was definitely a great panel. The variations in perspectives among the panelists made for a challenging discussion. So many issues to explore in the future: document versus data, document lifecycles, limitations on the concept of the document…
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