Ethical Metadata for Digital Projects Metadata is a foundational element of many digital projects, from tagging posts on a blog, to categorizing resources, to describing archival […]
Doing humanidades digitales at CUNY Humanidades Digitales is the Spanish name for Digital Humanities (DH). While this might be seen as a mere translation, for many of us it […]
Welcome to Spring 2025! The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows have been hard at work developing resources, events, workshops, and […]
Commons 2.5: Registration, Reimagined Happy holidays, Commons community! After we closed out our major redesign project with the overhaul of Groups last spring, we turned our […]
Hosting Migration Complete! “five-thirty pm” by Sophia Lucero on flickr (cc) We are very pleased to announce that the Commons has fully migrated to Reclaim […]
Hosting Migration Downtime “LED tunnel” by Yves Sorge on flickr (cc) The hosting migration that we announced last month will begin at 10:30am Eastern on Wednesday, […]
Scheduled Weekend Downtime Photo Credit: R.A. Killmer on flickr (cc) We wanted to let our users know that the Commons will be unavailable starting at 8am Eastern this […]
Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene The Anthropocene is the age marked by the substantial consequences that human activities have caused to the Earth system (the different natural […]
What is metadata, and why does it matter? Metadata is “data about data”. In other words, metadata is information that describes one or more aspects of data. It makes working with dat […]