This computer-scientist champion of digital libraries and humanities computing provides an overview of paradigm changes in the sciences; a similar review of humanities achievements show that they still stop short of developing a new kind of scholarship.

Scientists were not always good collaborators. In pondering the "unprecedented convergence of interest across C.P. Snow's Two Cultures in the promise of cyberinfrastructure and of data-driven research," the computer scientist/digital librarian Sayeed Choudhury and medieval scholar Timothy Stinson propose a new relationship between humanities scholars, their resources and their colleagues.