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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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWelcome to our fourth challenge!
Challenge #4 guides you through the process of creating your own site through Humanities Commons. Right now, we’re just focusing on building the site’s structure and look. We will add content in Challenge #5: Sites 2.0.
The full details and instructions for our fourth challenge can be f…[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@mklopez, I am really glad you share your doubts about the value of the Altmetric tools here. I did install the Altmetric It plug-in, and tried it out briefly, but was mainly disappointed by the limited places in which it seems to be looking for mentions. Also surprised to find, when I tried it on somebody else’s work (which I consider well-known…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López replied to the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWell … I tried it, but it was depressing. A lot of my articles are with journals that don’t assign DOIs, so nothing is generating buzz. And the one that I did check had 1 tweet, from MLA from when I deposited it in CORE a few years ago. I’m not sure I want to put a badge on my personal website advertising that.
On the positive side, I can see…[Read more]
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Nina Lager Vestberg 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 agoI have previously found CORE useful for syllabus inspiration, and I’ve also found a few research articles of interest. This challenge prompted me to have another root around, and I’ve just downloaded two new articles on issues of digitisation that look highly relevant to the book project I’m working on. As for uploading material of my own, I still…[Read more]
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Sara Santos replied to the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThese tools are extremely helpful! I experimented a little bit with the Altmetric bookmarklet on a few articles to see what scholars in my area of interest are saying about those articles/subjects. I found the demographic and geographical breakdown particularly interesting, because it made me much more aware of who might be reading my own work.…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler 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 agoI am still trying to get permission to share some of my published work in CORE, but meanwhile I found an excellent article in CORE that might be of interest to many current and aspiring academics: Devoney Looser’s essay “Me and My Shadow C.V.,” about the many failures and rejections we have to face in submitting conference proposals, publishing…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek 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 agoI appreciate this challenge largely because I’ve been remiss in mining the CORE for my research. Additionally, I’ve been thinking about using the CORE for teaching introductory lessons on bibliography and research, especially in pointing students towards the strengths and limitations of databases and archives. I’ve previously uploaded every pi…[Read more]
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Eliseo Jacob 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 agoI was interested to see how this challenge would go since I had never used the CORE repository before. While I was able to find several articles related to my theoretical interests in the public sphere, I noticed that there was not a lot of articles and other documents related to Latin America and Brazil. Hopefully, with time more scholars w…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello, campers!
I’ve just posted about our third mini-challenge on our blog. You can find the post here.
For this mini-challenge, you don’t need to create anything new. Instead, it asks you to explore two super helpful (free) tools created by Altmetric. One tool helps you to have greater awareness and control of the digital conversations…[Read more]
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Dana Gavin replied to the topic Challenge #3: CORE (6/25-7/8) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago@mollief I write about Sherlock Holmes whenever possible — but the paper I am preparing to upload is about a Holmesian video game. I haven’t delivered a paper on the Doyle stories yet, but as soon as I do, I hope to help populate the field.
@caitlinduffy49 I look forward to reading your Dracula article! Right up my alley.
I’ve uploaded my vis…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Challenge #3: CORE (6/25-7/8) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoLike the others who commented above me, I was really looking forward to this challenge. While I already have taken advantage of the ability to download content from the CORE Repository (@sarastarbucksantos Yes!- the syllabi available on CORE rock!), I never had the guts to actually upload something myself. I’m not quite sure why that is, but I’m…[Read more]
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Jeannette Vaught replied to the topic Challenge #2: Networking (6/11-24) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHello!
I came to this challenge a bit late, but it is a very good one! I joined a few groups with varying levels of activity, and created two new ones (Science and Technology Studies and Agricultural History).
It was great to have another summer camper to chat with over on the Animal Studies list 🙂
One question I have is an HC identity one:…[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, 7 months agoI was curious about what might have been uploaded that would interest me, and was pleasantly surprised that the list of suggestions based on my profile yielded two documents of interest, a syllabus on a text-mining course taught by a librarian, and an article from the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication on the challenges to…[Read more]
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Sara Santos replied to the topic Challenge #3: CORE (6/25-7/8) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI echo Dana’s comment! This challenge really helped me figure out what kinds of resources are available in the H Commons repository, as well as how to find resources best suited to my research. To complete the challenge, I decided to look up articles related to my dissertation topic. At first, I wasn’t finding much, but I think it’s because I…[Read more]
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Dana Gavin replied to the topic Challenge #3: CORE (6/25-7/8) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis is the challenge I have been waiting for, because I have felt utterly unsure what work I could/should share. This is fantastic.
I think today I am going to clean up and upload two papers I presented at two conferences. I have only presented them, not even tried to publish them, which made me leery for some reason about putting them on CORE.…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Challenge #3: CORE (6/25-7/8) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoWelcome to our third challenge!
Challenge #3 focuses on all things CORE. guiding you through the dual processes of finding relevant CORE deposits and uploading your own work to the CORE Repository.
The full details and instructions for our third challenge can be found on our blog.
Use this space to share your accomplishments, challenges, and di…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Challenge #2: Networking (6/11-24) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI’ve been having a really good time discussing maps and speculative fiction with @djgavin in the Science and Speculative Fictions group. This challenge has allowed me to network with people working on some similar but different tasks that I think will allow for fruitful discussion of maps and literature and the act of creating maps more g…[Read more]
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Scott Banville started the topic General Education Course Materials, CORE materials for generalists. in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI haven’t really found a good place in any of the groups I’m a member of to post this query so I’ll post it here.
I teach at a regional state university and while I get to teach in my “area” my area really is a generalist. General Education courses are a large part of my department’s course offerings and even our “English” major courses need to…[Read more]
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Joelle Mann replied to the topic Challenge #2: Networking (6/11-24) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHi everyone,
Happy Friday! I joined several new groups: Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies, Narrative theory and Narratology, Autofiction, and Neoliberal Fiction (thanks @sarastarbucksantos). I started threads in two of the groups based on what I’m currently working on (both having to do with voice and co-mix). I also tried to join groups that…[Read more]
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Eliseo Jacob replied to the topic Challenge #2: Networking (6/11-24) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI’ve actually enjoyed completing the second challenge. I did not realize how many scholars in my field already had profiles on H-Commons. Hopefully this will encourage me to reach out more to other academics and network over projects and research that we have in common.
I joined several groups related to my research. For the task to create a…[Read more]
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