At 16:27 02/02/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>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)
>
Come on people,

It is facile and counterproductive to suggest that curators would be better
at learning programming than programmers or vice versa.  Surely, it comes
down to  issues of collaboration, cooperation and good communication skills.

Andrzej Kowalski
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