The pervasiveness of digital technologies and social networking has created unprecedented possibilities for engagement between academic and non-academic communities, including among academics, research partners and stakeholders, students, and interested members of the public. But how might digital research infrastructure—including digital research commons such as the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons (hsscommons.ca)—support community-building and engagement efforts in Canada, specifically? Join panelists Hannah Paveck (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Julia Bullard (University of British Columbia), Tanja Niemann (Érudit), and chair Jason Boyd (Toronto Metropolitan University) for a discussion of how questions of digital access, diversity and inclusion, design, governance, and open access publication might actively inform the development of not-for-profit, community-driven infrastructure at the national level (and beyond).

1. building community
2. digital communities
3. digital humanities
4. digital knowledge commons
5. digital research commons
6. digital research communities
7. digital research infrastructure
8. Humanities and Social Sciences

This panel of featured talks was part of the Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Congress event, which took place on May 28, 2023, at York University.

The Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences event series was supported by a Connection Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as well as the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Érudit, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Iter, and the Humanities Data Lab. The Canadian HSS Commons team is also very grateful to the scholarly societies that supported and participated in the Building Digital Communities event at the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.