Early Work In Re: Digitilization

Why do the digitalized texts sometimes give more information than the scholars who have copiously cataloged the tablets? For example, Abe Sachs cataloged the mathematical texts at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon a visit to Penn almost 20 years ago, I was kindly given a copy of his work. Robert Englund in a long comment in CDLN 2 010:0004 about publishing and cataloging collections noted this problem, among many, from a different angle: collaborators of research efforts to gather and make available primary cuneiform sources for cuneiform studies, for related disciplines, and for the global community of informal learners are, unfortunately, and unnecessarily, stymied by this lack of publication care, leaving us to do the work of others in cleaning up defective or incomplete catalogs; outsiders like ourselves, however, must work without access to internal resources, for instance, the letters and notes of Goetze, that will have been available to those participating in a collective publication.