>Where is your evidence that curators (as symbol processors) somehow
>naturally have the information modeling and algorithm implementation
>background (either natively or through training) to build robust
>long-lasting information management systems?

Conversely, where is the evidence that programmers know beans about what
curators need now or might need in the future?  Curators are not good at
comunicating their information storage needs, and programmers are not good
at explaining how their algorithms work.  However, I think curators can be
taught the basics of programming easier than programmers can be taught the
basics of collections management.

Julia Moore
Indianapolis Art Center
(my $0.02 as well)