I am - sort of - a scholar of the humanities. I say 'sort of' because what I do, especially in relation to the humanities, barely resembles what would traditionally have been called 'scholarship'. I've learned to live with that. And so, maybe, will the humanities. This lengthy study looks at how information technology has changed research in the humanities. Some things - such as the importance of being widely read and citing resources - have not changed. but others - such as dashing off an email to react to a written work - have. Writing has changed a lot, both in the use of the computer to compose text and in the use of online publishing. The report also looks at some of the glitches - lack of uniformity among systems, for example, and archival stability. Reading this report, I wonder whether what I do is really so different. Perhaps not so much so, after all.
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