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• Why You Should Donate to Knowledge Commons: Insights from Our Team

  All last week as part of our Giving Tuesday campaign, we featured posts on our social media from our team members. We asked them to reflect on what is most impactful to them about working on Knowledge Commons, and why you should consider donating to support the Commons. Below you can read all of their…

• On the NEH and Our Path Forward

  

  Over the last several weeks, we’ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they’re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities, including sudden and extensive terminations of previously awarded grants. We hurt for everyone who’s trying to figure out how to carry on, not least…

• Join Knowledge Commons on Bluesky!

  Over the course of the last several months, we know many of our users have migrated over to Bluesky. In this spirit, we’ve decided to become more active on our page there. Follow us at @kcommons.bsky.social for all of our social media content, including platform updates, KCWorks spotlights, and so much more!    Along the same…

• Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder

  

  by Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Martin Paul Eve Institutions of higher education in the United States have long served as independent producers and disseminators of knowledge for the public good. This role has encouraged great trust in these institutions, but public trust in higher education dropped by 12% between 2015 and 2023. This trust is under…

• Game On: Meet Our Team Through Some of Our Favorite Games

  This February, we’re celebrating games on Knowledge Commons through KCWorks spotlight posts on social media! Many of our team members play different kinds of games and we wanted to help you get to know our team better through our love of gaming. Bonnie Russell, Product Manager  While I had been an active gamer in the…

• Getting external access to BuddyPress’s notifications (or: distributing Knowledge Commons)

  Crossposted from Martin Paul Eve, “Getting external access to BuddyPress’s notifications (for Knowledge Commons)”, https://eve.gd, February 18, 2025, https://doi.org/10.59348/gpbaz-kx09. As part of my work on Knowledge Commons, I want to make more of our development process open, welcoming, and transparent, by using blogging. So I will be writing some technical posts on what I’m doing…

• Digital Scholar Donates $20,000 to Support Knowledge Commons…and Helps Us Reach A Major Milestone!

  Today, the Knowledge Commons team is delighted to share that Digital Scholar has donated $20,000 to supporting KC. We are immensely grateful to the support Digital Scholar has shown us over the years, with the funds donated to our project since 2019 now totalling $172,500. And, this donation is particularly impactful for us this year,…

• Knowledge Commons Works has launched!

  The Knowledge Commons team is over the moon to share with you today that the beta version of our new repository is LIVE! Knowledge Commons Works (KCWorks for short) has been a massive, team-wide effort over the past year to create a repository platform suited for the needs of our users today, and well into…

• 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…

• 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…