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Eric Wheeler: Generic tools -
Eric Wheeler: I agree that it is difficult -
But the creation of generic Humanistic tools is something that people always talk about in the digital Humanities, and that I' m never been convinced of buying into -
We just had a one-year experience in Australia with money that was given out for research in the Humanities, precisely to build tools. But it lasted for one year maybe -
Roeland van Hout: Maybe not that long, but OK -
But maybe we'll go in reverse order this time. David, do you have any final remarks? David Robey: I' ll pass, as I've talked quite a lot -
Musée de l'Homme, Paris: May it also be useful to print them sometimes? If they are printable -
And even having a standard for what they should look like. I mean much as we curse Windows, we now have a point where we can talk to files and systems in a fairly standard way -
Bill Kretzschmar: I don' t believe that they're feasible, at least not beyond very simple programs -
John Nerbonne: OK, and let' s give Paul the final word, then -
That' s why we got excited by e-science. Because that' s exactly what e-sciences are about: about integrating data. -But they, too, have a long way to go -
John Nerbonne: OK so we close the session with a word on the web. We thank in particular our panellists -
OK so we close the session with a word on the web. We thank in particular our panellists! -
Billy Macon (2010)
Wouldn't It Be Nice If... -
I mean if there's a problem with the sustainability of data resources, then probably the sustainability of tools is of a different order
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright
- © Edinburgh University Press and the Association of History and Computing 2009
- Subject
- Historical Studies
- ISSN
- 1753-8548
- eISSN
- 1755-1706
- DOI
- 10.3366/E1753854809000299
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
PANEL DISCUSSION ON COMPUTING AND THE HUMANITIES JOHN NERBONNE, PAUL HEGGARTY, ROELAND VAN HOUT AND DAVID ROBEY This is the report of a panel discussion held in connection with the special session on computational methods in dialectology at Methods XIII: Methods in Dialectology on 5 August, 2008 at the University of Leeds. We scheduled this panel discussion in order to reflect on what the introduction of computational methods has meant to our subï¬eld of linguistics, dialectology (in alternative divisions of linguistic subï¬elds also known as variationist linguistics), and whether the dialectologists’ experience is typical of such introductions in other humanities studies. Let’s emphasise that we approach the question as working scientists and scholars in the humanities rather than as methodology experts or as historians or philosophers of science, i.e. we wished to reflect on how the introduction of computational methods has gone in our own ï¬eld in order to conduct our own future research more effectively, or alternatively, to suggest to colleagues in neighbouring disciplines which aspects of computational studies have been successful, which have not been, and which might have been introduced more effectively. Since we explicitly wished to reflect not only on how things have gone
Journal
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2008