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Trusting Others to ‘Do the Math’
Researchers effectively trust the work of others anytime they use software tools or custom software. In this article I explore this notion of trusting others, using Digital Humanities as a focus, and drawing on my own experience. Software is inherently flawed and limited, so when its use in scholars...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Routledge
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4917914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27365564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2016.1165454 |
| Sumario: | Researchers effectively trust the work of others anytime they use software tools or custom software. In this article I explore this notion of trusting others, using Digital Humanities as a focus, and drawing on my own experience. Software is inherently flawed and limited, so when its use in scholarship demands better practices and terminology, to review research software and describe development processes. It is also important to make research software engineers and their work more visible, both for the purposes of review and credit. |
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