ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences has released their final report.
Their recommendates are:
- Invest in cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences, as a matter of strategic priority
- Develop public and institutional policies that foster openness and access
- Promote cooperation between the public and private sectors
- Cultivate leadership in support of cyberinfrastructure from within the humanities and social sciences
- Encourage digital scholarship
- Establish national centers to support scholarship that contributes to and exploits cyberinfrastructure
- Develop and maintain open standards and robust tools
- Create extensive and reusable digital collections
I note that the development of robust tools is one of the recommendations (along with open standards). See my earlier post Humanities Cyberinfrastructure.