From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:10:58 -0700 Humanities Commons (https://news.hcommons.org) is an almost-started-up start-up with Mellon funding that promises to be a strong digital platform for support of humanities research and scholarly communication. They are about to go live, but that URL works for now with some limited information. The founding partners include the MLA, College Art Association, Association for Jewish Studies, and the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. The core work seems to have come from the MLA with an earlier instantiation of MLA Commons. My sense is that we’ve all been looking for the right scale at which to act in these areas. Humanities Commons offers national scale linked to learned societies, which themselves have proven to be good at giving national scale to disciplinary activities. A high quality platform broadly accessible and committed to open access to the materials it gathers feels like something that could gain altitude fairly rapidly. There’s an interesting interplay to be worked out between what makes sense to do at this level and what remains or becomes the work of the local digital repository. Anyone know more about this start-up? Jim O’Donnell ASU