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The humanities, as a scholarly disciplines, prizes individual scholarship. There is a long history of collaboration in producing joint works and analysis, but the greatest rewards go to those who have worked in isolation. The books and papers that emerge from that isolation make unique and personal contributions to scholarly fields. The book format provides a flexible medium for arguing, explaining, and demonstrating and a relatively long production period that allows for repeated interaction on a specific topic by a limited and known set of authors.
Digital tools enable a new kind of collaboration, grounded in a shared, rich representation (perhaps evolving with the collaboration activity) of textual, audio, or visual material. Digital representations of material can be searched and analyzed and altered at electronic speed. More dramatically, they lead to orderly cooperation by many, perhaps hundreds, of individuals. And all of these collaborators can access and edit the same representation of data from geographically distant sites.
"The humanities, as a scholarly disciplines, prizes individual scholarship. There is a long history of collaboration in producing joint works and analysis, but the greatest rewards go to those who have worked in isolation. The books and papers that emerge from that isolation make unique and personal contributions to scholarly fields. The book format provides a flexible medium for arguing, explaining, and demonstrating and a relatively long production period that allows for repeated interaction on a specific topic by a limited and known set of authors".
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