Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 320.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:25:35 +0100
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: 1995 expectations in 2000
Willard,
I do thank the vigourous Jacksonian exchange on digital libraries which
has provided me an opportunity to segue to this consideration which I have
been meaning to bring forwarded.
I have had recent occasion to reread a piece by Seth R. Katz, "Graduate
Programs and Job Training" which appeard in _Profession 95_, a publication
of the Modern Language Association. On page 65 towards the end of a
section entitled "Online Publishing and Other Online Academic Activities,
Katz, one can read the following sentence :
Online activities may even bring more public relations benefit to the
institution than the traditional kind do, since they often reach more
people more immediately and more frequently.
Katz's frames this observation in the context of emerging critiera for
performance measures of collaborative and online work. One can clearly
read the" any place any time" hype generated by the opening of the World
Wide Web and the Internet to commerical interests. I am wondering if any
subscribers to Humanist would care to comment on the evolution of
assesment mechanisms for online work, in particular if any attention has
been focussed not only on very punctual model (x amount of people served
in y time) but also on a longtitudinal model (activities and
resource-building that continue to accrue value over time). Perahps the
"noisy library" thread with its most recent pointer to matrices of trust
could be woven into this call to consider how, as a discipline, humanities
computing markets success.
--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance
Member of the Evelyn Letters Project
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm
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