In 2018, Humanities Commons honored one of the most time-honored traditions of the season: summer camp. We hosted a virtual summer camp for users old and new. It helped participants to update, build, and achieve an outstanding digital presence through HC. Please check out the discussions from Summer 2018 to see the fantastic work and thought-provoking conversations that our participants took part in last year.
In 2019, we hosted two Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshops. These events encouraged you to set aside time to update your digital presence on HC. The group is a space to ask questions, connect with other users, and see the various exciting ways that other scholars use HC to build their presence online.
You can use these materials as you update your presence on the Commons.
Please visit our site for more information and updates: https://hcsummercamp.hcommons-staging.org
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Sara Santos replied to the topic Challenge #5: Sites 2.0 (7/23-8/5) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello everyone!
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the website and trying out some of the plugins and widgets that HC Wordpress offers, and added some to my website. I found the Creative Commons configurator very helpful in figuring out the different levels of protection/sharing in OA works, and I might use it in the future.…[Read more] -
Nina Lager Vestberg replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@caitlinduffy49 Thanks! That was exactly it. Now I just need to find an image that works in the space, and how to get the headline to go across it 🙂
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHi, @ninalager.
To get a picture to go across your screen on the Radcliffe theme, you can choose to set a “featured image” for that post. The space to upload that image is on the bottom right of your post’s editing page. I think I’m thinking about the same image space as you are, but if I’m talking about something else, please let me know! Hope…[Read more]
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Nina Lager Vestberg replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoSo, I finally got round to completing this challenge, several weeks overdue… I’ve called it Materialist Media Ecology, and I’m thinking of it more or less as a place for me to assemble and share research, ideas, and projects (by others rather than myself, for the moment) that may be of use to my students and me, first and foremost, but also to…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #5: Widgets in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello, campers!
I’ve just posted about our fifth mini-challenge on our blog. You can find the post here.
For this mini-challenge, you will learn about the WordPress widgets that are available to use with HC sites. This challenge highlights just a few widgets that I thought might be helpful, but feel free to explore other options.
As always, le…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Challenge #5: Sites 2.0 (7/23-8/5) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWelcome to our fifth challenge!
Challenge #5 is shorter than previous challenges simply because I wanted to give you all the time and freedom to add content to your site. This challenge guides you through the process of adding content to your site as well as creating a plan to maintain your site into the future.
The full details and instructions…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI didn’t realize I could create a whole separate website using the Humanities Commons, so this Summer Camp has been very useful to me. I’ve been trying to figure out a space to host Virtual Hemingway, a digital project consisting of more than 250 links to (mostly reputable) Hemingway-related material online. While it’s taken me a bit of time,…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #4: Wordpress Plug-Ins for HC Sites in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello, campers!
I’ve just posted about our fourth mini-challenge on our blog. You can find the post here.
For this mini-challenge, you will learn about the Wordpress plug-ins that are available to use with HC sites. This challenge highlights four of my favorite plug-ins, but feel free to explore other options (there are 26 plug-ins to choose fr…[Read more]
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Mollie Freier replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI’ve created a bare-bones site, which is here. I plan to use it to maunder around ideas that keep coming up for my book. Even though I think that I know exactly what I want to do with it, more ideas keep cropping up. It’s good because the work stays interesting, but bad because I really want to finish it.
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@mollief Thanks for sharing! I appreciate Altmetric’s ability to alert you to locations where your work is cited that you otherwise might not have been aware of, like Wikipedia (so cool that you’re cited on Wikipedia!).
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Nina Lager Vestberg replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@caitlinduffy49: Excellent! That gives me yet another option to play with for this challenge.
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Peggy Wright-Cleveland replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoMy July project is to create a site for a project I plan to amplify in the fall. I want to crowd source this project and need a website to do so. I was very happy to find this group to help me do this. Stay tuned!
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Mollie Freier replied to the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI took a course last summer on Metrics, and was grateful that we humanists don’t have to rely on such things as Journal Impact Factor or H-index. I found Altmetric very interesting, and I’ve been following a publication of mine ever since. Here’s the link to my article “The Librarian in Rowling’s Harry Potter Series.” Without Altmetric, I don’t…[Read more]
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Mollie Freier replied to the topic Challenge #3: CORE (6/25-7/8) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoFinally got up the nerve to upload my book proposal for Book ‘Em: Libraries, Librarians, and Information in Mystery Fiction, 1970-2018. I hope to get this item (with a sample chapter) submitted by the end of the month.
I realized that we need to add more subject headings in detective fiction–there’s a subject heading for Golden Age, but not fo…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@ninalager Yes! Humanities Commons sites have a number of Wordpress plug-ins that you can activate for your site (our upcoming mini-challenge will focus on plug-ins you can use on HC sites, so we’ll cover this topic a bit more very soon). One of these plug-ins is the Wordpress Importer which lets you export a Wordpress site from elsewhere and…[Read more]
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Nina Lager Vestberg replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI am so looking forward to this challenge, but I still can’t decide what kind of site to create. Will wait a bit and see what other people come up with in the meantime.
@sarastarbucksantos : Yours is looking really good!
@caitlinduffy49 : Is there anyway one might revive an already  existing (and very old…) Wordpress site by incorporating or…[Read more]
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Nina Lager Vestberg replied to the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@caitlinduffy49 : Thanks for alerting us to SHERPA/RoMEO! I think this will help me resolve the concerns I had over depositing my own work in CORE.
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Sara Santos replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI just created a site! You can find it here. As you can tell, it’s still very much a bare-bones structure, and my only post is an introductory one (nothing much new besides a link to what I think is the funniest Zizek “lecture” to date). I found the examples linked in the challenge really helpful, as they gave me a sense of what scholars are using…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@SaraStarbuckSantos: Thanks for sharing how you’re using Altmetric to research the current work in your field! I think that’s a great idea (and one that I plan to use myself).
@mklopez : Altmetric is not a perfect tool, so it is bound to come up short in some areas. For example, the fact that articles need a DOI in order for Altmetric to track it…[Read more]
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Kate Koppy replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThanks for the example sites compiled in this challenge!
I’m going to sit this one out, thought, because I already have a professional portfolio and blog on Wordpress, and my course sites are hosted by my university.
My personal challenge in the next two weeks will be to link to my previous course sites from my portfolio site.
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