Few, if any, of the gradutes of current or proposed programs in humanities computing will be offered academic positions. It might be worth a peek at what management thinking is coming out of business schools. It is a bit more humbling to think of the academic role as that of an enabler rather than that of the voice that always speaks ex cathedra. I am reminded that humanist culture is not immured. I know, that I always like the company of scholars who can provide delight.
Delight is what makes the building more than just a shelter.
It may be an intellectual delight, a visual delight or even a delight to be in to listen to music, but it brings something more to the building than just functionality. I would suggest that one way of building delight into humanities computing programs is to enhance the opportunities for exchange between programs, projects and pockets at various institutions, take advantage of a wired world to find peers and to find translators. Yuri Rubinsky was instrumental in developing SGML markup for the visually disabled. Murray Maloney is a member of the International Committee for Accessible Document Design.