Location
Thad Cochran Center 218
Presentation Type
Concurrent Session
Start Date
27-4-2018 3:00 PM
Description
Anne Donlon, project manager for Humanities Commons and other digital initiatives at the Modern Language Association, will discuss the society’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the Commons Open Repository Exchange, a Fedora plugin for WordPress/BuddyPress that enables an open-access repository to work in a socially-networked scholarly ecosystem.
Like other open-access repositories, CORE facilitates the distribution, discussion, and citation of the many products of research, including articles, monographs, conference presentations, data sets, and open educational resources. What makes CORE stand out, however, is its social facet, the fact that it is not an independent entity but an integral part of the WordPress/BuddyPress fueled Humanities Commons.
The presentation will propose the MLA/Columbia University Libraries collaboration as an experiment in integration and collaboration, both between WordPress, BuddyPress, and Fedora, and between an academic institution and a disciplinary-based society, suggesting that it gestures towards pathways for other nonprofit entities to leverage open source technologies and work together towards more useful (and more used) alternatives to commercial educational technology solutions.
A University and a Scholarly Society Walk Into a Bar... Leveraging Open-Source Technologies Together to Help Researchers Tell a More Textured Story About Their Work
Thad Cochran Center 218
Anne Donlon, project manager for Humanities Commons and other digital initiatives at the Modern Language Association, will discuss the society’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the Commons Open Repository Exchange, a Fedora plugin for WordPress/BuddyPress that enables an open-access repository to work in a socially-networked scholarly ecosystem.
Like other open-access repositories, CORE facilitates the distribution, discussion, and citation of the many products of research, including articles, monographs, conference presentations, data sets, and open educational resources. What makes CORE stand out, however, is its social facet, the fact that it is not an independent entity but an integral part of the WordPress/BuddyPress fueled Humanities Commons.
The presentation will propose the MLA/Columbia University Libraries collaboration as an experiment in integration and collaboration, both between WordPress, BuddyPress, and Fedora, and between an academic institution and a disciplinary-based society, suggesting that it gestures towards pathways for other nonprofit entities to leverage open source technologies and work together towards more useful (and more used) alternatives to commercial educational technology solutions.
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Anne Donlon is project manager for Humanities Commons and other digital initiatives at the Modern Language Association. Previously, she was a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University, a position that was shared between the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. She has a PhD in English, and is a member of the Journal for Interactive Technology & Pedagogy editorial collective.