You can also check out our feedback group for the wider HC network. Feel free to contribute ideas there as well or to read it to get a sense of other issues, requests, etc. that users have pointed out:

https://hcommons-staging.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/

Hi CAA staff members / testers,

Welcome to CAA Commons and our feedback group. Please feel free to use this space to share thoughts about the registration/log-in process – or anything else about the site!

Hey Nicky,

I was wondering if it was possible to invite a member to a group?

Thanks,

Émilie

Recently, JSTOR Labs released our Reimagining the Monograph project. This project (http://labs.jstor.org/monograph) includes a quick video overview, a prototype called Topicgraph (http://labs.jstor.org/topicgraph) that uses topic modeling and data visualization to help researchers better evaluate books before they download them, and a white paper…[Read more]

The maphackathon organising group have created a maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group. The group library is available for all to view, but to contribute and to edit you will need to be an invited member.

We would be delighted if members of the Humanities Commons Open-Source Historical Mapping group, the Digital Humanists group and the Linked…[Read more]

The test site we created can be found at https://workshop2016.ajs.hcommons-staging.org/. If you want admin access to the site in order to play around with it and experiment with WordPress, just let me know here or in a direct message! Remember, you can access the dashboard of the site (if you are an admin) by going…[Read more]

Thanks for attending the AJS Commons workshop today! As a reminder, you can look at our workshop google doc here:  http://bit.ly/ajsworkshop1. I’ve also attached it as a file to this group! Feel free to post questions or comments you might have to the group, or message me directly. 

The Agas map of London, published c. 1633, but showing London c. 1550-1560, shows a series of cranes at different places along the Thames north shore, both above and below London Bridge. These cranes appear to be treadmill cranes. An example of a large treadmill crane, powered by four men in a treadmill at one side of the crane, can be seen in…[Read more]

This is a list of high quality, freely downloadable, freely reuseable maps of seventeenth and eighteenth century London, suitable for georectification and for use in the map hackathon. I will be working on geo-rectifying these over Christmas, but doubt I will get all done.

An exact survey of … London after the Great Fire

From the New York…[Read more]

I kicked off a MarineLives experiment today by creating a #maphackathon pinterest board, and publicising it on Twitter. It will be interesting to see if it acquires any followers and develops a creative life or is just a “good idea” which goes nowhere. As of 12.21 Wedneday December 7th 2016 it had eleven pins (all seeded by me) and had acquired…[Read more]