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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 values of the “locus” attribute to an open list, in order to be able to explicitly indicate the attribute to which uncertainty refers. Additionally, the authors detected a need to describe the nature and type of uncertainties as well as evaluating the degree of uncertainty the piece of data introduces. Our tools on the platform were developed against the background of human-centered design with the focus onto easing uncertainty annotation and visualization, promoting the use of TEI standards and making uncertainty play a more active role in the research process.

Najważniejsze wyniki europejskiegosondażu praktyk badawczych oraz potrzeb cyfrowych w humanistyce i naukach o sztuce, przeprowadzonego przez grupę roboczą DARIAH Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO). Badanie jest efektem współpracy europejskich badaczy z różnych krajów w ramach Grupy Roboczej DiMPO. Badanie zostało pomyślana jako ponadregionalny sondaż podłużny, przeprowadzany co kilka lat online w krajach europejskich. Jego celem jest dostarczenie opartego na danych przeglądu praktyk badawczych, potrzeb i postaw europejskich badaczy z nauk humanistycznych wobec zasobów cyfrowych, metod i narzędzi, w perspektywie przestrzennej i czasowej. Wyniki pierwszego sondażu (zakończonego w marcu 2015) zostaną zaprezentowane w wieloautorskim raporcie, który zawiera analizy zbiorcze i porównawcze oraz pięć raportów narodowych. Kolejne badanie planowane jest na 2017-2018. Więcej informacji: bit.ly/scholarlypractices Przekład na polski: Maciej Maryl (Centrum Humanistyki Cyfrowej Instytutu Badań Literackich PAN) ------ The highlights of the European survey on scholarly practices and digital needs in the arts and humanities carried out by DARIAH Digital Methods and Practices Observatory WG (DiMPO). This research is the outcome of collaborative work of European researchers from different countries, working within the DiMPO Working Group. It has been designed as a multiregional longitudinal survey, to be conducted online across European countries and to be repeated every few years. Its aim is to provide an evidence-based outlook of scholarly practices, needs and attitudes of European humanities researchers towards digital resources, methods and tools across space and time. Results of the first run of the survey (completed in March 2015) are presented in a multi-authored report, which includes comparative and consolidated analyses, as well as five country profiles. A new run is planned for 2017-18. For more information, see bit.ly/scholarlypractices. Polish translation: Maciej Maryl (Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Este informe resume el análisis estadístico de los resultados de una encuesta online que ha sido llevada a cabo por el Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO), un grupo de trabajo del VCC2 de la infraestructura de investigación DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities). Para proporcionar resultados basados en evidencias reales y actualizadas sobre las prácticas que se están desarrollando actualmente, así como las necesidades y actitudes de los investigadores europeos que implican el uso del entorno digital, esta encuesta se ha llevado a cabo gracias a un grupo internacional de investigadores de más de una docena de países, y se ha realizado centrándose en analizar las prácticas, actitudes y necesidades del mundo digital en la investigación en Europa a través de diferentes disciplinas de artes y humanidades y sus contextos de aplicación.

This report summarizes the statistical analysis of the findings of a web-based survey conducted by the Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO), a working group under VCC2 of the DARIAH research infrastructure (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities). In order to provide an evidence-based, up-to-date, and meaningful account of the emerging information practices, needs and attitudes of arts and humanities researchers in the evolving European digital scholarly environment, the web survey involved a transnational team of researchers from more than a dozen countries, and addressed digitally-enabled research practices, attitudes and needs in all areas of Europe and across different arts and humanities disciplines and contexts.