This paper describes the experience of a group of interdisciplinary researchers and research prof... more This paper describes the experience of a group of interdisciplinary researchers and research professionals involved in the PROgressive VIsual DEcision making in Digital Humanities (PROVIDEDH) project, a four-year project funded within the CHIST-ERA call 2016 for the topic “Visual Analytics for Decision Making under Uncertainty — VADMU”. It contributes to the academic literature on how digital methods can enhance interdisciplinary cooperative work by exploring the collaboration involved in developing visualisations to lead decision-making in historical research in a specific interdisciplinary research setting. More specifically, we discuss how the cross disciplinary design of a taxonomy of sources of uncertainty in Digital Humanities (DH), a “profoundly collaborative enterprise” built at the intersection of computer science and humanities research, became not just an instrument to organise data, but also a tool to negotiate and build compromises between different communities of practice.
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network is an AHRC/IRC-funded project to undertake research and... more The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network is an AHRC/IRC-funded project to undertake research and consultation towards the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association for the UK and Ireland. This is the fourth discussion paper produced by the Network, in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities community in the two countries and beyond. It summarises the findings of the fourth workshop organised by the Network, and offers recommendations based on these findings.
This is the second discussion paper produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in cons... more This is the second discussion paper produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities (DH) community in the two countries and beyond. It summarises the findings of the second workshop organised by the Network, and offers recommendations based on these findings.
The immediate intention underlying John Unsworth's explication of scholarly primitives was to... more The immediate intention underlying John Unsworth's explication of scholarly primitives was to suggest some recursive functions of humanities scholarship that might be usefully embodied in tool-building in humanities computing. The central challenge of uncertainty representation has increasingly come to the fore in Digital Humanities research. The new practices of knowledge production characterised and analysed by Digital Humanities imply uncertainty by their very nature, they are intended to alter our understanding and they almost always occur at the boundaries between different disciplines. From the creation to the consumption of digital resources, there are new stakeholders, contexts and tasks to consider. The amount of digital resources produced (or digitized), stored, explored, and analysed in any Digital Humanities project is immense and uncertainty is a key issue that could hinder substantially in the use and re-use of digital cultural heritage resources. Therefore, tradit...
Underlying uncertainty in DH research data affects decision-making and persists during the projec... more Underlying uncertainty in DH research data affects decision-making and persists during the project's lifecycle. This uncertainty will always be present. Thus, efforts in providing technical support for humanistic research should focus on managing and making it more transparent, rather than removing it. Locating and tracing (certain types of) uncertainty through the evolution of a textual corpus can be done with the use of TEI tags. However, the use of these methods is not a common practice. The motivation of this paper is to address one possible barrier to wider use of these tags by providing a user-friendly interface to collaboratively annotating texts with uncertainty. We propose some minor extensions of the TEI specification that follow from our metrics of uncertainty. The first extension is adding the new "category" attribute to the "certainty" element, required to indicate the source of uncertainty. The second extension is to change the closed list of va...
This paper presents a multicase study protocol for meta-research in Digital Humanities, prepared ... more This paper presents a multicase study protocol for meta-research in Digital Humanities, prepared by Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO) Working Group of the Digital Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities in Europe (DARIAH). The protocol is intended to help researchers in conducting meta-research and adopting this methodology for different purposes, disciplines and approaches. As many of the issues raised here are already covered in manuals for social research, our focus is the specificity of meta-research in the DH environment. The specificity of DH in this respect relies on an intrinsic challenge of bringing together generally undertheorised approaches of the humanities with very formal and process-driven ICT approaches. The main assumption behind this research is that a meaningful change in scholarly practices is taking place and is worth investigating. Moreover, a full assessment of this transformation should not focus exclusively on pioneering research, but rat...
This first discussion paper, produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultatio... more This first discussion paper, produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities (DH) community in the two countries and beyond, summarises the findings of a) the first workshop organised by the network and b) the post-workshop survey and offers recommendations based on these findings.
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network is an AHRC/IRC-funded project to undertake research and... more The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network is an AHRC/IRC-funded project to undertake research and consultation towards the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association for the UK and Ireland. This report arises from an event on 'Next generation careers in and from Digital Humanities', organised for the Network by University College Cork, NUI Galway and the University of London. Co-located with the 10th Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School, it was held online on 15 July 2021.
The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP) brings together digital facsimiles of the manuscrip... more The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP) brings together digital facsimiles of the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s works – documents currently held in over thirteen libraries and archives in Europe and North America – with the aim of furthering genetic criticism. Incorporating three of the eight modules available for researchers engaging with the BDMP website as of August 2020, together with one forthcoming monograph study whose corresponding digital module has yet to be made live on the site, this article will, in effect, make use of three novels and one novella, all in both their French and English iterations, in order to present concrete examples of the ways in which the exposition of idiosyncratic features of Beckett’s œuvre is being facilitated by this nascent digital archive.
The capture, modelling and visualisation of uncertainty has become a hot topic in many areas of s... more The capture, modelling and visualisation of uncertainty has become a hot topic in many areas of science, such as the digital humanities (DH). Fuelled by critical voices among the DH community, DH scholars are becoming more aware of the intrinsic advantages that incorporating the notion of uncertainty into their workflows may bring. Additionally, the increasing availability of ubiquitous, web-based technologies has given rise to many collaborative tools that aim to support DH scholars in performing remote work alongside distant peers from other parts of the world. In this context, this paper describes two user studies seeking to evaluate a taxonomy of textual uncertainty aimed at enabling remote collaborations on digital humanities (DH) research objects in a digital medium. Our study focuses on the task of free annotation of uncertainty in texts in two different scenarios, seeking to establish the requirements of the underlying data and uncertainty models that would be needed to impl...
This essay offers an ongoing process of reflection on the role of the digital medium in creating ... more This essay offers an ongoing process of reflection on the role of the digital medium in creating scholarly editions of medieval Irish texts. What are the relationships between (digital) textual scholarship, (digital) scholarly editing, humanities computing, and Digital Humanities? How have these concepts changed our editorial praxis? The author discusses four different digital scholarly editions of medieval Irish manuscripts and then focuses one specific case: @ChronHib's "The Poems of Blathmac Tweets". This Twitter account of the eponymous edition presents a stimulating example of new forms of (user) engagement and the role of editors and audiences in the digital realm.
One of the major factors inhibiting interdisciplinary data driven research is how to capture prov... more One of the major factors inhibiting interdisciplinary data driven research is how to capture provenance and facilitate the discovery, use, and reuse of discipline specific research ‘data’. The growing pressure to find ways to enable technological and cultural compliance with the nascent European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is intensifying what is an already difficult proposition. This paper outlines the preliminary findings of the Horizon2020-funded Knowledge Complexity (KPLEX) project (https://kplex-project.eu/), which is investigating the delimiting effect digital mediation and datafication can have on rich, complex cultural data. As an ICT-35 ‘sister project', KPLEX is humanities-led and ICT-funded and the project partners are approaching this challenge in a comparative, multidisciplinary and multisectoral fashion. This paper investigates and outlines the wider lessons to be learned from data reuse practices in the humanities, fields well accustomed to dealing with complex, hyb...
This paper describes the experience of a group of interdisciplinary researchers and research prof... more This paper describes the experience of a group of interdisciplinary researchers and research professionals involved in the PROgressive VIsual DEcision making in Digital Humanities (PROVIDEDH) project, a four-year project funded within the CHIST-ERA call 2016 for the topic “Visual Analytics for Decision Making under Uncertainty — VADMU”. It contributes to the academic literature on how digital methods can enhance interdisciplinary cooperative work by exploring the collaboration involved in developing visualisations to lead decision-making in historical research in a specific interdisciplinary research setting. More specifically, we discuss how the cross disciplinary design of a taxonomy of sources of uncertainty in Digital Humanities (DH), a “profoundly collaborative enterprise” built at the intersection of computer science and humanities research, became not just an instrument to organise data, but also a tool to negotiate and build compromises between different communities of practice.
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network is an AHRC/IRC-funded project to undertake research and... more The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network is an AHRC/IRC-funded project to undertake research and consultation towards the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association for the UK and Ireland. This is the fourth discussion paper produced by the Network, in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities community in the two countries and beyond. It summarises the findings of the fourth workshop organised by the Network, and offers recommendations based on these findings.
This is the second discussion paper produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in cons... more This is the second discussion paper produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities (DH) community in the two countries and beyond. It summarises the findings of the second workshop organised by the Network, and offers recommendations based on these findings.
The immediate intention underlying John Unsworth's explication of scholarly primitives was to... more The immediate intention underlying John Unsworth's explication of scholarly primitives was to suggest some recursive functions of humanities scholarship that might be usefully embodied in tool-building in humanities computing. The central challenge of uncertainty representation has increasingly come to the fore in Digital Humanities research. The new practices of knowledge production characterised and analysed by Digital Humanities imply uncertainty by their very nature, they are intended to alter our understanding and they almost always occur at the boundaries between different disciplines. From the creation to the consumption of digital resources, there are new stakeholders, contexts and tasks to consider. The amount of digital resources produced (or digitized), stored, explored, and analysed in any Digital Humanities project is immense and uncertainty is a key issue that could hinder substantially in the use and re-use of digital cultural heritage resources. Therefore, tradit...
Underlying uncertainty in DH research data affects decision-making and persists during the projec... more Underlying uncertainty in DH research data affects decision-making and persists during the project's lifecycle. This uncertainty will always be present. Thus, efforts in providing technical support for humanistic research should focus on managing and making it more transparent, rather than removing it. Locating and tracing (certain types of) uncertainty through the evolution of a textual corpus can be done with the use of TEI tags. However, the use of these methods is not a common practice. The motivation of this paper is to address one possible barrier to wider use of these tags by providing a user-friendly interface to collaboratively annotating texts with uncertainty. We propose some minor extensions of the TEI specification that follow from our metrics of uncertainty. The first extension is adding the new "category" attribute to the "certainty" element, required to indicate the source of uncertainty. The second extension is to change the closed list of va...
This paper presents a multicase study protocol for meta-research in Digital Humanities, prepared ... more This paper presents a multicase study protocol for meta-research in Digital Humanities, prepared by Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO) Working Group of the Digital Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities in Europe (DARIAH). The protocol is intended to help researchers in conducting meta-research and adopting this methodology for different purposes, disciplines and approaches. As many of the issues raised here are already covered in manuals for social research, our focus is the specificity of meta-research in the DH environment. The specificity of DH in this respect relies on an intrinsic challenge of bringing together generally undertheorised approaches of the humanities with very formal and process-driven ICT approaches. The main assumption behind this research is that a meaningful change in scholarly practices is taking place and is worth investigating. Moreover, a full assessment of this transformation should not focus exclusively on pioneering research, but rat...
This first discussion paper, produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultatio... more This first discussion paper, produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities (DH) community in the two countries and beyond, summarises the findings of a) the first workshop organised by the network and b) the post-workshop survey and offers recommendations based on these findings.
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network is an AHRC/IRC-funded project to undertake research and... more The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network is an AHRC/IRC-funded project to undertake research and consultation towards the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association for the UK and Ireland. This report arises from an event on 'Next generation careers in and from Digital Humanities', organised for the Network by University College Cork, NUI Galway and the University of London. Co-located with the 10th Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School, it was held online on 15 July 2021.
The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP) brings together digital facsimiles of the manuscrip... more The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP) brings together digital facsimiles of the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s works – documents currently held in over thirteen libraries and archives in Europe and North America – with the aim of furthering genetic criticism. Incorporating three of the eight modules available for researchers engaging with the BDMP website as of August 2020, together with one forthcoming monograph study whose corresponding digital module has yet to be made live on the site, this article will, in effect, make use of three novels and one novella, all in both their French and English iterations, in order to present concrete examples of the ways in which the exposition of idiosyncratic features of Beckett’s œuvre is being facilitated by this nascent digital archive.
The capture, modelling and visualisation of uncertainty has become a hot topic in many areas of s... more The capture, modelling and visualisation of uncertainty has become a hot topic in many areas of science, such as the digital humanities (DH). Fuelled by critical voices among the DH community, DH scholars are becoming more aware of the intrinsic advantages that incorporating the notion of uncertainty into their workflows may bring. Additionally, the increasing availability of ubiquitous, web-based technologies has given rise to many collaborative tools that aim to support DH scholars in performing remote work alongside distant peers from other parts of the world. In this context, this paper describes two user studies seeking to evaluate a taxonomy of textual uncertainty aimed at enabling remote collaborations on digital humanities (DH) research objects in a digital medium. Our study focuses on the task of free annotation of uncertainty in texts in two different scenarios, seeking to establish the requirements of the underlying data and uncertainty models that would be needed to impl...
This essay offers an ongoing process of reflection on the role of the digital medium in creating ... more This essay offers an ongoing process of reflection on the role of the digital medium in creating scholarly editions of medieval Irish texts. What are the relationships between (digital) textual scholarship, (digital) scholarly editing, humanities computing, and Digital Humanities? How have these concepts changed our editorial praxis? The author discusses four different digital scholarly editions of medieval Irish manuscripts and then focuses one specific case: @ChronHib's "The Poems of Blathmac Tweets". This Twitter account of the eponymous edition presents a stimulating example of new forms of (user) engagement and the role of editors and audiences in the digital realm.
One of the major factors inhibiting interdisciplinary data driven research is how to capture prov... more One of the major factors inhibiting interdisciplinary data driven research is how to capture provenance and facilitate the discovery, use, and reuse of discipline specific research ‘data’. The growing pressure to find ways to enable technological and cultural compliance with the nascent European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is intensifying what is an already difficult proposition. This paper outlines the preliminary findings of the Horizon2020-funded Knowledge Complexity (KPLEX) project (https://kplex-project.eu/), which is investigating the delimiting effect digital mediation and datafication can have on rich, complex cultural data. As an ICT-35 ‘sister project', KPLEX is humanities-led and ICT-funded and the project partners are approaching this challenge in a comparative, multidisciplinary and multisectoral fashion. This paper investigates and outlines the wider lessons to be learned from data reuse practices in the humanities, fields well accustomed to dealing with complex, hyb...
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