DHCommons is happy to announce the incorporation of all the project data that was contributed to the now-defunct arts-humanities.net site. By adding this data to the DHCommons project registry, the collection of projects available on DHCommons has grown by over 700, providing many new opportunities to explore previous work within digital humanities.
The editorial team of centerNet’s new DHCommons journal is thrilled to request submissions for its inaugural issue. We seek mid-stage digital projects who wish peer review and feedback that will contribute to the project’s development.
Since DHCommons merged with arts-humanities.net to become centerNet's official ADHO-sponsored publication, we've quietly been working on developing the publication, working through the consequences of merging our project directory with the information gathered on arts-humanities.net, and thinking through ways of improving the effectiveness of our project and collaborator matching. Here's what's been going on behind the scenes at DHCommons in the last nine months.
We are delighted to announce the merger of DHCommons and arts-humanities.net under the DHCommons moniker, which will expand our directory of digital humanities projects, and lay the foundation for an overlay journal that will provide peer-review of mid-stage digital humanities projects. For more information, please see the blog post at centerNet.
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) has for many years offered the ACH Mentoring Program, which provides guidance and opportunities to new members of the digital humanities community by pairing them with a volunteer mentor.
Digital Thoreau, which is looking for collaborators for data entry, peer review, and general consulting for their effort to create a TEI-encoded text of Walden enriched by scholarly annotations, links, images, and social tools, is the first project to make use of our the new "video pitch" field on DHCommons project profiles.
The DHCommons board has recently been hard at work on new features that will make it easier to find and connect with collaborators:
DHCommons and centerNet are pleased to announce that, as of January 5, 2012, DHCommons will become a sponsored initiative of centerNet. The centerNet Executive Council formally approved this partnership at their meeting in Paris on December 7, 2011. DHCommons and centerNet reached this agreement after six months of discussions, led by Ryan Cordell and Quinn Dombrowski for DHCommons and Neil Fraistat representing centerNet.