ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences

ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences has released their final report.

Their recommendates are:

  1. Invest in cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences, as a matter of strategic priority
  2. Develop public and institutional policies that foster openness and access
  3. Promote cooperation between the public and private sectors
  4. Cultivate leadership in support of cyberinfrastructure from within the humanities and social sciences
  5. Encourage digital scholarship
  6. Establish national centers to support scholarship that contributes to and exploits cyberinfrastructure
  7. Develop and maintain open standards and robust tools
  8. 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.