In short, [art historians, curators, and – more broadly] humanists largely work alone and on timelines with long horizons. Scientists work together, experimentally, and publish quickly. And all of this is only in terms, as noted above, of disseminating information. Scholars, curators and conservators of art are not exploiting the new technology to research differently. (via Daily Dot | How art history is failing at the Internet)
I added the bracketed phrase above for contextual clarity. The quoted author is an art historian currently heading up the Getty, and former head of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
We needs to evolve a diverse ecology of methods.