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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoHi all, a blog post reflecting upon the outcomes of the Voices from the OA Books Community series is available to view here, and you can download the document that summarises the discussions here. This summary was shared with cOAlition S. We note that cOAlition S have recognised the OABN as a useful forum for community engagement in their statement…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic How to use the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoHi all,
Just a quick note to flag that we’ve switched off the Events calendar function on the site. People weren’t engaging with it, so instead of spending time updating it we’ll be focused on coordinating talks and workshops, fostering discussion, and making more people aware of this network. Anyone interested in a calendar of OA events might…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic OERs, Benefits and Perceptions in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDear All,
In her recent post, Mirela Roncevic discusses Open Educational Resources (OERs), the complexities these entail, the benefits of OERs for faculty and students, such as the removal of cost-barriers to course development and enrolment, and the roles that libraries can play with regard to OER publishing, discoverability and awareness:…[Read more]
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Christina Drummond replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoFYI: the OA eBook Usage Data Trust effort is moving towards establishing formal community governance next year to work alongside a Secretariat support staff. The project just released an RFP for an organization to host the Secretariat (and the project) in the next phase. You can learn more and access the RFP via Kevin Hawkin’s announcement . You…[Read more]
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D. De Rentiis deposited Lectura Dantis – Inferno: note preliminari di forma e organizzazione / erste Hinweise auf Unterrichtsform und Organisation (Italiano / Deutsch). in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoLectura Dantis – Inferno: note preliminari di forma e organizzazione / erste Hinweise auf Unterrichtsform und Organisation (Italiano / Deutsch). Folien der Videopräsentation.
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Digitally Documenting Urban Renewal in Lansing, 1930s-1960s in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoIn this article we trace the history of Urban Renewal in Lansing through a collaborative research project involving undergraduate students and the course instructor. Looking in fine-grain detail at the block and individual house level, the project reveals the patchwork of discrimination that African Americans faced in accessing housing in the…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited El otoño tibio in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoEnglish Abstract: A comment on the fraudulent ‘expert’ representation system articulated by the Spanish Council of Universities in 2005, in order to carry out the higher degree reform promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Education under Zapatero. And the response of the professional society in the field of English Studies.…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Filosofía pirata y trabajo editorial in the group
Digital Books on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis is an edited volume of essays on philosophy as university work and as a ‘pirate condition’. Taking inspiration from Gary Hall’s pirate philosophy, and from raúl rodríguez freire’s critique of the contemporary condition of the intellectual, three Mexican authors reflect on what it means to do philosophy today from the perspective of the m…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Creative Commons, copyright in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear All,
Creative Commons licensing, on which Open Access largely relies, can be complex to handle in the context of private-public partnerships or publisher-side commercial reuse alongside author-side copyright retention. Likewise, as intellectual property rights are governed by geography-bound copyright legislation, their harmonization is…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Pirate Care in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoOn the project pirate.care
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited I+D+I OT in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: Estableciendo una analogía irónica con el programa de televisión “Operación Triunfo”, el artículo examina y critica los criterios utilizados para distribuir los recursos destinados a la investigación en la academia hispana, y más en concreto la carencia de partidas presupuestarias específicas destinadas a la investi…[Read more]
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Thomas Dabbs started the topic A Talk with Janelle Jenstad, Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis is a talk with Janelle Jenstad of the Univ. of Victoria about how to maintain digital projects over time (and indeed keep them alive and well) and the benefits of linked data platforms: https://youtu.be/LED4gGHeb_I.
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Pablo Markin started the topic Reproducibility, Open Science in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear All,
In this podcast episode, Matthew Ismail talks to immunologist Ewoud Compeer of the University of Oxford about the reproducibility crisis and how Open Science and Open Access can help to enhance the reproducibility of scientific research:…[Read more]
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Michael Lyons deposited “Excavating AI” Re-excavated: Debunking a Fallacious Account of the JAFFE Dataset in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoTwenty-five years ago, my colleagues Miyuki Kamachi and Jiro Gyoba and I designed and photographed JAFFE, a set of facial expression images intended for use in a study of face perception. In 2019, without seeking permission or informing us, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen exhibited JAFFE in two widely publicized art shows. In addition, they…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic OA and translations in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi Philippa, I’d be happy to discuss this — at OBP we have been approached by people interested in translating our OA books and I could talk through how we deal with this. Essentially, if the book is licensed CC BY then anyone can produce a translation as long as appropriate attribution is given, although it would also be best practice to say…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi all: the summaries from our Voices from the OA Books Community series are now available (thanks to the support of SPARC Europe) and will remain open until 12 August: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons-staging.org/2021/07/22/voices-from-the-oa-books-community-summary-the-great-polyphony/
Many thanks to all who contributed to the sessions!
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Evina Steinova deposited Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[Read more]
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Carlotta Paltrinieri started the topic Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting – Dublin 2022 in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues, please consider sending an abstract for the panel:”What’s a Dilettante? Non-Professional Artists and Literati in Early Modernity (1500-1650)”.
Contributions to this panel will explore the phenomenon of dilettantismo between the 1500s and 1650s and consider some of the following key questions:
Who was the dilettante? How d…[Read more]
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Hélène Huet deposited Carrying on in a Pandemic: The Case of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoFor this poster, we propose to highlight how the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) used the virtual environment necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic to reinvent itself through the creation of new content and outreach opportunities.
FLDH is a collective of 16 institutions in the State of Florida that seeks to highlight the digital…[Read more]
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