« Unlike many other interdisciplinary experiments, humanities computing has a very well-known beginning. In 1949, an Italian Jesuit priest, Father Roberto Busa, began what even to this day is a monumental task: to make an index verborum of all the words in the works of St Thomas Aquinas and related authors, totaling some 11 million words of medieval Latin. »

« [T]he majority of [these women] seen here are doing data entry, albeit in a skilled and new format. The project certainly could not have happened without their input. »
(For Ada Lovelace Day – Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives , Terras 2013)

« [...] just because women were involved in this work, and that their work has been suppressed, it does not mean they should be celebrated as feminist heroes. The work these women did had serious and damaging consequences in the real world, and I cannot talk about them without talking about the appalling impact of their work. » Crystal Bennes on Klara and the Bomb 2022

"Knowledge" does not preexist, it is fabricated in exchange.

Merci