[Anne Donlon]

If you’ve presented a workshop that involved Humanities Commons, please feel free to share materials or information here (either by depositing in CORE and sharing with the group, or uploading materials under “Files”).

Any exercises that work particularly well? Or explanations that really seem to resonate? Any challenges?

If you’re planning a workshop and have questions, feel free to ask them here.

• This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Anne Donlon. Reason: typo

[Mariana Strassacapa Ou]

Hello!

Thank you for inviting me to the group.

 

For context: I have just finished a MSc in Library and Information Science at City, University of London, and a few days ago I lead a session on Humanities Commons to current students of the course. Publishing, open access, scholarly communication etc are all very important to Lib&Info Science, and our course has started a group here on HC to create an open repository of the resulting dissertations, as well as build online presence. Lecturers welcomed my idea to organise a session on HC, to present new students to the platform, as well as discuss digital repositories, scholarly networks…

 

On the session then I focused on talking a little bit about the whole context of HC in a broader sense, to show that this kind of initiative is actually part of a long fight for open, university-backed, grant-funded scholarly communication. For that I used chiefly Fitzpatrick’s blog post/conference talk Giving it away and her book Planned Obsolescence; for HC in particular, I used the YouTube videos as informative resource.

 

One topic in specific that I believe is essential to be presented is Creative Commons: it’s quite fundamental to understand at least the basics of the licenses to be able to share/deposit materials in HC/CORE. Thing is, if you are not already familiar with Creative Commons, it takes a certain effort to first study a bit of that, to then manage to not only upload stuff to HC, but also to make appropriate use of what you find. In the case of my session, most students were already familiar with CC, for being Lib&Info students, but some were not; both groups found this introductory video very useful to begin understanding CC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkbeycRa2A&t=47s

 

Also, one of my lecturers coauthored this very easy-to-read guide to Creative Commons: ‘Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph’

http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/11863/#.We9JR-WgWfo.twitter

 

In the end of the session, I gave everyone 10 minutes to explore HC by themselves, create an account or whatever else they found interesting to do.

I’m uploading to Files the Power Point presentation I made for the session. It’s quite simple!

Do get in touch if any queries or comments!

 

[Anne Donlon]

Thanks, Mariana! This is fantastic. Thanks especially for the creative commons resources and sharing your slides! I love the idea of giving 10 minutes at the end for people to get started & explore.

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