Comments on: Session Proposal: Is Coding Privileged in DH Work? http://southeast2012.thatcamp.org/03/06/is-coding-privileged-in-dh-work/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:06:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Richard Pearce-Moses http://southeast2012.thatcamp.org/03/06/is-coding-privileged-in-dh-work/#comment-120 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:05:25 +0000 http://southeast2012.thatcamp.org/?p=206#comment-120 I agree this topic merits discussion. It parallels conversations in the archival profession. See my proposal on knowledge and skills for digital archivists.

Your statement, “If we say that humanists need to learn to code, should we also ask that coders learn Humanities, or should we admit we come to this profession with a preformatted division of labor?” is quite provocative. (I shall reserve being — respectfully — provoked until the gathering. As a teaser, though, I’ll suggest that a technologists have a general set of skills that can be applied to an extraordinarily wide range of problems. DH are the architects, and IT are the builder/contractors.)

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