Category: Community

• Connecting with HC Users: A Reflection on our Spring Cleaning Campaign

  As those working in the digital humanities know, this field incorporates the use of digital tools and technologies with traditional humanities disciplines. These features center interdisciplinary work with a potentially global impact, which highlights the need for a form of effective communication between scholars, such as Humanities Commons. This past semester I worked on a […]

• Help Us Meet Our Match

  Friends, today we’re launching a very special fundraising campaign to support the Commons. Here’s the tl;dr: we need to complete the fundraising match for our NEH challenge grant by the end of June to unlock the last of the grant. Every dollar helps our open source, academy owned, community governed platform to operate sustainably for […]

• Introducing our revitalized user advisory group!

  At Humanities Commons, one of our core values is cultivating community. Bringing together people with multiple perspectives and backgrounds enables us to work toward deeper collective understanding, enriching our connections to one another and to the world. In this spirit, we’re excited to announce we’re revamping our user advisory group!  This group has existed in […]

• Exploring Accessibility and Extended Reality at CES2024

  This post does not represent the views or opinions of Humanities Commons or Michigan State University. Additionally, mention of products, services, individuals, or companies within this post do not indicate support or preference.  Written by Stephanie E. Vasko, User Experience Researcher for Humanities Commons As a Senior User Experience (UX) Researcher in Mesh Research and the […]

• Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 2

  In my last post, I unpacked some of the reasons why open infrastructures matter for the future of knowledge production, and I talked a bit about how Humanities Commons and hcommons.social strive to live out their principles of community governance that truly open infrastructure requires. But I ended on a less cheerleadery note: We aren’t […]

• Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 1

  I’ve been thinking a good bit lately about the ways that the future of knowledge production depends upon the openness of the infrastructures that support our work. For a lot of people, the word “infrastructure” triggers a yawn reflex, and not without reason. As Deb Chachra points out in her brilliant new book, How Infrastructure […]

• The Pets of the Commons

  This holiday season we thought we’d showcase some of our part-time team members. As a distributed team spread across two continents and three countries we generally meet online. One of the best part of virtual meetings is having our furry teammates show up and hang out. We’d like to introduce you to a few of […]

• The Web We Want

  As we seek new members to join our network, we want to share with you more of the inner workings of Humanities Commons and how we understand our work as part of a collective movement. Today, our community development manager, Zoe Wake Hyde, shares a vision of the future of the web that our team […]

• Purpose, Values, Process, Goals

  As we seek new members to join our network, we want to share with you more of the inner workings of Humanities Commons and how we understand our work as part of a collective movement. Today, our founder, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, tells of how we have come together as a team, united by a shared purpose […]

• Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day

  Improving accessibility in all areas of our work is fundamental to our ambition to create more just and equitable scholarly communications.  In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we here at Humanities Commons wanted to let you know about some of the work we’re doing behind the scenes to both improve accessibility for site users […]