Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 433.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:53:43 +0100
From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 14.0421 hypertext research and the outsider
With reference to Willard's remarks:
>(3) Bridging disciplinary cultures is indeed very difficult. From one
>perspective my complaint can be seen as the common experience of a person
>looking in on a discipline in which he has not been trained. It can be
>very difficult in fact for such a person to recognise that what goes on in
>the foreign discipline IS scholarship. Thus my difficulty? To someone like
>me published work is all, whatever the medium, however slowly it happens.
>Is it the case that in (non-mathematical) CS the software prototypes are
>primary, the papers actually quite secondary? If so, then is it more than
>a bit much for me to expect such effort to be put into openly accessible
>publication as in the humanities?
I just attended a CS seminar today on text mining, one where the work being
reported had manifested itself in a program, a dissertation, and a dot-com
startup whose methods were now protected by a non-disclosure agreement--so
totally apart from the online preprint syndrome, it is important to
remember that in the CS world these days there is so much money to be made
from new algorithms that they may become trade secrets before they ever see
print, even virtually.
Pat Galloway
GSLIS
University of Texas-Austin
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