Some problems

Computers bring a wonderful new world, so what's the problem?

• Human sciences are a multi-actor area: universities, archives, libraries, museums, publishers are targeting the education market, using information technology each in their own way.
• Too little communication: every man for himself, reinvention of wheels.
• The 'Matthew effect': Those who have, will be given more ...
• Little transfer of research results to education.
• Solutions by one person in one place have insufficient leverage.
• The Web is changing from an academic channel to a shopping mall.  E-books and pay-per-view will not work for serious scholars.
• Copyright issues and cost of digital editions.
• Teaching staff in the humanities need as much training as students for using information and communication technology.
• Degrees and courses integrating computing in humanities vary widely between institutions (cf. Survey on CL Education in Europe).
• Many languages are insufficiently 'digitized' and standardization for language and text encoding is still developing.  This is especially critical for lesser used and Third World languages.