The second event in the Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences series will take place online on May 12, 2022, from 10.45am-2.30pm PDT (Victoria). It is intended for researchers, librarians, academic administrators, information and technology professionals, students, and emerging scholars. Participants will discuss issues relevant to open digital commons such as the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons (hsscommons.ca)—an in-development, national-scale, bilingual (French and English) network. The Canadian HSS Commons fosters an open environment for Canadian researchers to share, access, re-purpose, and develop scholarly projects, publications, educational resources, data, and tools. It includes a subject repository for open access publications that assigns digital object identifiers upon upload and follows FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) guidelines for data management; a project development environment that can integrate with Google Drive, Dropbox, or GitHub; individual user profiles, with federated login/identity authorization, including with ORCID; blogging capabilities; subject interest groups; tools to facilitate member interactions (e.g., profile building, and messaging); and more.

(Note: Part 1 of the Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences Commons event series took place on Jan. 24, 2022. Part 3 will be held in connection with the next annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute, on June 9, 2022.)

Registration:

To attend Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences and other events held during this year’s Congress from May 12-20, please register for Congress 2022. (To receive the early-bird discount, register before March 31.)

Recorded content will be available through the Congress website until June 3, 2022. Please let us know if you have any questions!

We are grateful to the INKE Partnership, the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for their support of this event.

1. canadian HSS commons
2. digital humanities
3. ETCL