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Tri osi dôvery v digitálnej konfesionálnej hymnológii
Dekompozícia epistemického statusu, sily dôkazu a verifikácie v lex-orandi datasetoch
Three Trust Axes for Digital Confessional Hymnology
Decomposing Epistemic Status, Evidentiary Strength, and Verification in Lex Orandi Datasets
- Autor
- Michal Valčo (predbežne sólo) koautorstvo s Klátikom / Sekelskou TBD
- Cieľové miesto
- DHQ + JOHD koordinované dvojité odoslanie po DOI (DOI vydaný 2026-05-08)
- Jazyk
- English
- Cieľový rozsah
- ~6 500 – 7 500 slov (cieľ ~7 000)
Abstract (CFP standard, ~470 words)
Štandardný abstrakt pre DH konferencie a CFP
Digital humanities datasets in confessional theology — Reformation studies, hymnology, comparative liturgics — face a peer-review problem that more mature DH subfields have already encountered: the boundary between what published scholarship has shown and what the dataset is inferring from that scholarship erodes when both are flat-rendered as visualisations. The ITSERR-RESILIENCE project's epistemic-modesty framework (FACTUAL / INTERPRETIVE / DEFERRED) is a clear advance over flat-rendering, but it conflates two distinct epistemic dimensions — what kind of claim is being made and how strong the textual evidence is — and hides a third dimension that is decisive for theological-historical datasets: whether the project's own members have personally collated the primary witnesses.
This paper argues that three orthogonal trust axes are necessary for confessional-theology DH datasets to be honestly peer-reviewable, and demonstrates the framework with a working dataset: the TEPALIT hymn-pair dossier (APVV-24-0484, Slovak Research and Development Agency).
The three axes are: (1) epistemic status
(FACTUAL / INTERPRETIVE / DEFERRED) — what kind of claim;
(2) evidentiary strength
(DOCUMENTED / INFERRED / CONJECTURED) — quality of textual evidence;
(3) verification status
(VERIFIED / SECONDARY_ONLY / PRIMARY_PENDING / UNVERIFIED) — whether
the project has personally collated primary witnesses. The cells
(INTERPRETIVE, DOCUMENTED, SECONDARY_ONLY)
and
(INTERPRETIVE, INFERRED, VERIFIED)
are routinely conflated in single-axis DH visualisations; they are
very different epistemic acts.
The TEPALIT case study comprises six hymn-pair dossiers comparing the
Slovak Lutheran Cithara Sanctorum (1636) with its
Czech-Reformation source kancionáls and agendas. Each pair is a
self-contained scholarly record with stable permalink, citation chain,
and trust-axis state. As of v0.1.0, two pairs are VERIFIED via
project-member collation of peer-reviewed critical editions (Benka 2024;
Grešová-Sekelská 2023), one is PRIMARY_PENDING with explicit unblock
paths documented, one is SECONDARY_ONLY pending print-edition acquisition,
one is transparently flagged as a working hypothesis, and one is a
research-target manifest. The trust state is exposed in CSV, JSON-LD
Dataset structured data, and
a bilingual (Slovak/English) companion website with a four-axis filter
bar.
The contribution is methodological, not substantive: the Reformation findings are reported elsewhere. What is offered here is a schema, a build-time validation pipeline, a dossier template, and a worked demonstration. The schema is released under CC BY 4.0 (data) + MIT (code) and is designed for adoption in adjacent confessional-DH subfields.
Keywords: epistemic transparency, lex orandi lex credendi, Reformation hymnology, Cithara Sanctorum, dossier methodology, FAIR data, schema design.
Varianty abstraktu
Abstract variants for different CFP word budgets
Tri verzie toho istého abstraktu sú v repo
(MethodsPaper_Abstracts.md):
štandardná (~470 slov; nad), krátka (~240 slov; nižšie) a rozšírená
(~1 150 slov). Plus jedna alternatívna verzia, ktorá pivotuje od
metodologického k substantívnemu zameraniu (PAIR_006) pre venues, kde je
reformačno-historická publika primárna.
Krátka verzia (~240 slov) ▸
DH datasets in confessional theology routinely conflate distinct
epistemic dimensions: what kind of claim is being made
(factual / interpretive / deferred) versus how strong the textual
evidence is (documented / inferred / conjectured) versus
whether the project has personally collated the primary witnesses
(verified / secondary-only / primary-pending / unverified). The cells
(INTERPRETIVE, DOCUMENTED, SECONDARY_ONLY)
and
(INTERPRETIVE, INFERRED, VERIFIED)
look identical when only one axis is rendered; they are very different
epistemic acts.
This paper proposes a three-axis trust decomposition for lex
orandi datasets and demonstrates it on the TEPALIT hymn-pair
dossier (APVV-24-0484, Slovak Research and Development Agency) — six
paired comparisons between the Slovak Lutheran Cithara Sanctorum
(1636) and its Czech-Reformation source kancionáls. Two pairs are
VERIFIED via collation of critical editions; one is PRIMARY_PENDING
with documented unblockers; one is SECONDARY_ONLY pending
print-edition acquisition; one is transparently flagged as a working
hypothesis; one is a research-target manifest. The trust state is
exposed in CSV, in JSON-LD Dataset
structured data, and in a bilingual companion website's four-axis
filter bar.
The contribution is schema and pipeline, not findings. Schema released under CC BY 4.0 (data) + MIT (code).
Keywords: epistemic transparency, lex orandi, Reformation hymnology, schema design.
Rozšírená verzia (~1 150 slov) a alternatívna substantívne-orientovaná
verzia (~530 slov) sú v repo:
MethodsPaper_Abstracts.md.
Plánovaná štruktúra
Planned structure
- §0 Abstract · ~200 slov.
- §1 Introduction: the epistemic problem in confessional DH · ~600 slov.
- §2 Background: ITSERR's epistemic modesty and its limits · ~700 slov.
- §3 The three-axis decomposition · ~1 500 slov · analytické jadro štúdie; každá os definovaná, demonštrovaná na PAIR_001 – PAIR_006.
- §4 Application: the TEPALIT hymn-pair dossier · ~1 200 slov · prepojenie metodológie na konkrétny dataset; transparentné označovanie výskumných cieľov; bilingválna SK/EN dátová vrstva.
- §5 Schema and validation · ~700 slov · CSV s TypeScript loaderom; cross-file integrity checks pri builde; public-display rule pre CONJECTURED / UNVERIFIED páry; JSON-LD; per-pair APA + BibTeX snippets.
- §§6–8 Discussion, related work, conclusion · ~2 100 slov spolu.
Stratégia umiestnenia
Venue strategy
- 1. Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) — primárny cieľ. Open access (gold OA, bez APC). Metodologicky orientovaný, široká DH čítanost. Recenzný proces 12–18 mesiacov.
- 2. Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) — sekundárny cieľ. Pre „data paper“ o samotnom hymno-pár datasete. Koordinované dvojité odoslanie s DHQ; obe štúdie sa navzájom citujú.
- 3. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (JRMDC) — záloha. Priesečník náboženstva a DH; menšia čitatelia, ale bližšie k predmetu.
- 4. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (IJHAC) — nižšia priorita. Hybridný OA, menej čitateľov v našom subodbore.
Plný prehľad CFP a alternatívnych konferenčných variantov je v repo:
MethodsPaper_Abstracts.md §venue strategy.
Pracovný príklad na webe
The worked example, live on this site
Trojosový rámec dôvery je viditeľný na celom webe; najpriamejšie sa prejavuje na týchto stránkach:
- /hymn-pairs/ — šesť dossierov s farebnými indikátormi všetkých troch osí, filter bar, sortovanie, JSON-LD. Centrálna stránka pre §4 metodologickej štúdie.
- /synoptikon/ — paralelné texty s rovnakými epistemickými indikátormi.
- /sources/ — register prameňov so Zenodo DOI a CC BY 4.0 licenciou.
Ako citovať
How to cite (pre-publication)
Pred odoslaním sa štúdia cituje ako pracovný metodologický dokument projektu APVV-24-0484:
APA (7th edition)
Valčo, M. (2026). Three trust axes for digital confessional hymnology: Decomposing epistemic status, evidentiary strength, and verification in lex orandi datasets [Methods paper outline, APVV-24-0484 TEPALIT]. https://michalvalco.github.io/apvv2026-hymnals/papers/methods/
Stav: osnova kompletná, plný text v príprave. Citácia sa nahradí oficiálnym vydaním DHQ / JOHD po prijatí. Dataset, na ktorom je štúdia založená, má samostatné DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20081435 .