If methods are there to realise theoretical principles in the best possible way, at the same time they can in turn influence the principles themselves, opening up new perspectives uncovering, for instance, implicit biases and illogicalities. Indeed, the use of computation for the modelling and operationalisation of editorial knowledge can contribute to perfecting the editorial workflow in the way envisioned by McCarty (2005), who referred to the “meaningful surprise” often arising from the process of modelling and computing.<ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="3" target="ftn3" />