For Open Access Week, Humanities Commons has unveiled remarkable plans for 2024 in "What Is A Repository For?" at https://building.hcommons.org/2023/09/26/what-is-a-repository-for
Like the migration from Twitter to Mastodon, I would like to find that Humanities Commons - in my case: https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan (with nearly 10,000 downloads) - does better than ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steve-Mccarty (31,600+ reads) - or AcademiaEdu - https://wilmina.academia.edu/SteveMcCarty (31,500+ views) in connecting repository content with researchers and other readers, interactively. Perhaps browsing is more convenient than downloading, and commercial outfits have a stronger imperative to connect people.
Humanities Commons has many genres to select from, and I have uploaded content in 24 academic and creative categories. Successful research grant proposals seem like another possibility, and a research diary format would suit our India-Japan project on humanizing online educational experiences.
@hello @academicchatter
#hcommons #HumanitiesCommons #Mastodon
Love this piece in which @ianscott talks about the tensions and challenges in building a modern repository system for Humanities Commons #hcommons
https://building.hcommons.org/2023/09/26/what-is-a-repository-for/
Mirrors a lot of our thinking about how to support a diversity of research outputs, particularly with their use of #invenioRDM from #Zenodo which is our goto recommendation as a generalist repository
@julia I think it’s quite natural for different instances to have different approaches here. Many instances exist as clubs, providing a space for people with more or less similar interests and identities.
I do think, however, that an instance devoted to the humanities and higher education needs to have a very high threshold for blocking entire instances. I would definitely hope #hcommons takes a fairly hands-off approach and lets users decide for themselves if we want to block Threads or not, as @scrivenersmith suggests.
I do not trust Meta (or any of the big tech companies, really) in the least, but nor do I think we should block them on principle as long as there are users on those platforms that some of us find worth connecting with.
Veröffentlichungen gemeinfrei zur Verfügung stellen: Levke Harders über HCommons als Alternative zu Academia.edu 👇
https://belonging.hypotheses.org/4407
#OpenAccess #DOI #Repositorium #HCommons #researchgate #academiaEdu
Hi, #hcommons folks. Today's a perfect day to say thank you to our hosts with a donation to support the hcommons Mastodon server.