Open Times: The future of critique in the age of (un)replicability

Reproducibility and explainability in digital humanities

“…Gabriel Hankins investigates issues of reproducibility regarding archival silences and biases in data sets in the "struggle over the autonomy of disciplinary stan-dards of argumentation and evidence" while suggesting a practice of "data readings" in his case study of the Major [literary] Prizes Database (Hankins, 2023). Jyothi Justin's and Nirmala Menon's case study suggests methods to survey reproducibility for DH at a national level (Justin & Menon, 2023), while Nathalie Cooke and Ronny Litvack-Katzman focus on practical barriers to reproducability and explainability when data are only available through proprietary platforms locked behind subscriptions and paywalls (Cooke & Litvack-Katzman, 2023). Finally, the contributions by Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Sarah Middle, Nabeel Siddiqui, and Samuel Huskey survey and suggest approaches to advance reproducibility by promoting standards for verifyable procedures, methods, and datasets through open, shareable, and reproducible workflows (Cooke & Litvack-Katzman, 2023;Huskey, 2023;Joyeux-Prunel, 2023;Middle, 2023;Siddiqui, 2023).…”

“…This special issue, Reproducibility and Explainability in Digital Humanities, was published in two versions: a print version (International Journal of Digital Humanities, 2023a;Burrows, 2023;El-Hajj et al, 2023;Justin & Menon, 2023;Middle, 2023;Schöch, 2023;Siddiqui, 2023;Dobson, 2023;Pandiani et al, 2023;Rudman, 2023;Chun & Elkins, 2023), and an extended online special collection (International Journal of Digital Humanities, 2023b) that features all articles of the print version (a number of them as gold open access publications) plus five additional articles (Joyeux-Prunel, 2023;Huskey, 2023;Blanke et al, 2023;Cooke & Litvack-Katzman, 2023;Hankins, 2023).…”