“Okvir za pjesmarice” ujedno je “laboratorijski dnevnik” za humanističke eksperimente. Takav dnevnik za digitalnu humanistiku predlaže Willard McCarty (HUMANIST 22.098 falsification of process & its publication):
The computer, I realised, puts the researcher in something
like an experimental situation, and looking back on the history of
experimental science I could see that keeping a careful record of
what one thinks is happening often proves useful if not crucial. So I
looked around for descriptions of how to write a scientific
laboratory report, combined it with admonitions on how to write
papers in the humanities and produced a little document entitled,
“How to write an essay-report”, which then went through revisions
with the help of my colleagues here and is now distributed to our
students. It has also informed our own marking criteria. (See
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/ug/courses/ for the
document itself.)
Drugačija varijanta “humanističkog eksperimenta” predložena je na http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/NowAnalyzeThat (Geoffrey Rockwell i Stéfan Sinclair).
McCarty predlaže sljedeću strukturu “eseja-izvještaja”:
Probajmo slijediti ovu strukturu, da vidimo što će ispasti.