Category: News
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KCWorks Named Designated Public-Access Repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Knowledge Commons (KC) is delighted to announce that our repository, KCWorks has been selected as the designated public-access repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The partnership between KC and the NEH will fulfill the agency’s commitment to making federally funded research freely available without delay as mandated by the White House Office […]
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A Spring Update from Knowledge Commons About Our Use of Generative AI
Last November, we presented you with our first update on Generative AI (GAI) use at Knowledge Commons (KC). As the Commons is sponsored, hosted, and developed at Michigan State University, we’ve taken our initial guidance from the MSU Interim Guidance on Data Uses and Risks of Generative AI. We wanted to update you on how […]
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A Commons By Any Other Name…
The team at Humanities Commons has some big news to share. Over the past year, we have been thinking hard about our purpose, values and strategic direction, and one recurring theme has been that our original name, while very close to our hearts, no longer fully encapsulates the work that we do, or that we […]
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James Madison University Libraries Joins Humanities Commons as a Sustaining Member
Our team is thrilled to share that James Madison University Libraries have signed on to Humanities Commons as a sustaining member. Their participation over the coming years will help us to continue supporting our community of researchers, educators, students and other creators to discover open works, connect with their peers, and share their valuable contributions […]
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Meeting Our Match: Update #1
Three weeks into our fundraising campaign to complete our NEH matching grant challenge, it’s time for an update! (Not sure what we’re talking about? Read our launch post.) We are hugely grateful to everyone who has contributed so far – we have received 10 new individual donations (here’s where to do donate), and a number […]
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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 […]
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Digital Scholar Donates $20,000 to Support Humanities Commons
The Humanities Commons team is pleased to share that Digital Scholar has generously donated $20,000 to our ongoing work. This gift allows us to continue offering our services to our community of users for free, enabling them to discover open works, connect with their peers, and share their valuable contributions to our collective knowledge. Digital […]
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Threads
Some months back, when Meta first launched Threads and announced its plans to federate with Mastodon (and, one supposes, other Fediverse properties), we polled the membership of hcommons.social to gauge their feelings about whether we should be prepared to block, allow connections to the Threads server, or take a wait-and-see position. Based on the results […]
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An Update from the Commons about our Generative AI Use
In September, Mesh Research, including the entire Humanities Commons team, met for a one-week, in-person retreat at Michigan State University (more on our retreat to come!). At the retreat, we spent some time thinking and discussing our use of Generative AI (GAI). GAI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Bard are increasingly part of a multitude […]