#humanities-commons — Public Fediverse posts

New release – Compiled Norms: Towards a Formal Typology of Executable Legal Speech

🔍 Key contributions:
• Formal grammar criteria
• Validation schema with κ = 0.81 inter-rater agreement
• Parser hot-swap to Spanish civil-law tokens (95 % coverage)

📄 Full paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15881325

#LegalInformatics
#AIandLaw
#SyntacticAuthority
#eGovernance
#FormalGrammar
#LegalTech
#agustinvstartari
#ArtificialIntelligence
#HumanitiesCommons
#social
#Law

📘 New Article Published: Grammar Without Judgment
Author: Agustín V. Startari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365
Series: Grammars of Power
Published: July 3, 2025

🔗 Read on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365
🗂 Mirror on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5334549
🖥 Author site: https://www.agustinvstartari.com
#AIethics #FormalGrammar #ExecutablePower #HumanitiesCommons #AI #Judgment #LLM #Accountability #PostReferentialAuthority #Linguistics
#AI
#CriticalTheory #agustinvstartari #ArtificialIntelligence #DiscourseAnalysis

📘 New Article Published: Grammar Without Judgment
Author: Agustín V. Startari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365
Series: Grammars of Power
Published: July 3, 2025

🔗 Read on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365
🗂 Mirror on Figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29447060
🖥 Author site: https://www.agustinvstartari.com
#AIethics #FormalGrammar #ExecutablePower #HumanitiesCommons #AI #Judgment #LLM #Accountability #PostReferentialAuthority

📘 New Article Published: Grammar Without Judgment
Published: July 1, 2025

This article introduces a formal hypothesis: that ethical judgment, modeled as a syntactic node [E], can be erased entirely through a single rule—δ:[E] → ∅—without violating generative validity. The analysis reframes alignment, audit, and accountability as problems of grammar, not semantics.

🔗 Read on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365

#FormalGrammar #ExecutablePower #HumanitiesCommons #AI #Judgment #LLM #Accountability

@hello Happy rebirth day! Let me be perhaps the first to change my homepage over to Knowledge Commons :kc: atop https://japanned.hcommons.org

#HumanitiesCommons ⇒ #KnowledgeCommons

For Open Access Week, Humanities Commons has unveiled remarkable plans for 2024 in "What Is A Repository For?" at https://building.hcommons.org/2023/09/26/what-is-a-repository-for

Like the migration from Twitter to Mastodon, I would like to find that Humanities Commons - in my case: https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan (with nearly 10,000 downloads) - does better than ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steve-Mccarty (31,600+ reads) - or AcademiaEdu - https://wilmina.academia.edu/SteveMcCarty (31,500+ views) in connecting repository content with researchers and other readers, interactively. Perhaps browsing is more convenient than downloading, and commercial outfits have a stronger imperative to connect people.

Humanities Commons has many genres to select from, and I have uploaded content in 24 academic and creative categories. Successful research grant proposals seem like another possibility, and a research diary format would suit our India-Japan project on humanizing online educational experiences.

@hello @academicchatter
#hcommons #HumanitiesCommons #Mastodon

Why is #AcademiaEdu and why is anyone using it? 😫
It is not #OpenAccess ! Why not use @hello #HumanitiesCommons?
#OpenData #humanities

#HumanitiesCommons (@hello) already has an #OpenAccess #repository. But it's building a new one and has put a lot of thought into it. I recommend this excellent overview by Ian Scott.
https://building.hcommons.org/2023/09/26/what-is-a-repository-for/

Pleasantly surprised to see this:

"There are also unexpected synergies that emerge from this combination functions in a single repository. Members’ comments about various works will eventually (some time after launch) be publishable via #ActivityPub streams."

#GreenOA #OpenSource

@Loukas asked: "Is there some kind of open platform where teachers share lesson plans and resources?" Greetings from Japan, and hope this helps:

At Humanities Commons you can set up a free Profile and site that is principally a blog or a Website - like I have at https://japanned.hcommons.org - and they have a repository called CORE to upload all sorts of publications and deliverables, in categories including "Course material or learning objects" (each assigned a DOI and connected to Google Scholar), an example of which you can see under "Work Shared in CORE" at https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan

In their guide for educators to get started, the first categories they mention are Syllabus and Course Material collections: https://team.hcommons.org/2019/08/20/the-educators-guide-to-humanities-commons

Humanities Commons has a Mastodon instance as well, at https://hcommons.social/home

#education #school #teaching #OpenEducation #OpenAccess #OER #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #HumanitiesCommons #GoogleScholar @edutooter @academicchatter

Good move: #HumanitiesCommons is dropping #Twitter as a method of #authentication and adding #ORCID.
https://building.hcommons.org/2023/03/03/building-the-commons-update-march-2023/

I've uploaded six book chapters or articles to the #HumanitiesCommons #repository, #CORE. It takes time to upload each one, but I'm happier knowing that all my publications will be safely housed in a non-profit site. If you're planning to do the same, try to get basic information like the publisher of the journal (not just the title of), the ISSN, etc. And each essay you upload must have its own abstract. If you're on HC, let me know!

Is anyone on #HumanitiesCommons? I am getting things set up over there and getting ready to transfer my publications from Academia.edu to HC #CORE. I find it wicked hard. They seem to want a #DOI for everything, but some of my publications predate DOIs (at least I can't find one for a book published in the 1980s). Anyone have any thoughts about advantages / disadvantages to moving publications to a non-profit site like HC? Academia.edu is a site for which I have little respect left. Ideas?

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be the #project manager of a large, #grant-funded, boundary-pushing #academic platform? Well, you're in luck! Check out the first in a new series of blog posts on the project management of #HumanitiesCommons: https://building.hcommons.org/2023/01/18/trailer-from-pilot-to-platform/.

I'd love to hear about your experiences and your thoughts on project managing these types of projects. My hope is that together we can work toward a series of resources and a project management framework that fits the specific needs within the academic community.

Neat feature on hcommons.org: link to your Mastodon profile from your Humanities Commons profile.

Thanks to the brilliant folks at hcommons, who have made a nice little guide to achieve this 👇🏽

https://support.hcommons.org/add-a-link-to-my-mastodon-profile/

#openinfra #humanitiescommons

OMG! There is so much to love here about these processes and to see people in the wild experimenting with them and figuring them out.

Scott (@schopie1), you are not alone! There are lots of us out here doing these things, not only with WordPress but a huge variety of other platforms. There are many ways to syndicate your content depending on where it starts its life.

In addition to Jim Groom and a huge group of others’ work within A Domain of One’s Own, there’s also a broader coalition of designers, developers, professionals, hobbyists, and people of all stripes working on these problems under the name of IndieWeb.

For some of their specific work you might appreciate the following:

• https://indieweb.org/Indieweb_for_Education
• https://indieweb.org/A_Domain_of_One%27s_Own
• https://indieweb.org/academic_samizdat
• https://indieweb.org/WordPress
• https://indieweb.org/Category:syndication

Incidentally, I wrote this for our friend Kathleen Fitzpatrick last week and I can’t wait to see what she’s come up with over the weekend and in the coming weeks. Within the IndieWeb community you’ll find people like Ben Werdmuller who created large portions of both WithKnown (aka Known) and Elgg and Aram Zucker-Scharff who helped to create PressForward.

I’m thrilled to see the work and huge strides that Humanities Commons is making some of these practices come to fruition.

If you’re game, perhaps we ought to plan an upcoming education-related popup event as an IndieWebCamp event to invite more people into this broader conversation?

If you have questions or need any help in these areas, I’m around, but so are hundreds of friends in the IndieWeb chat: https://chat.indieweb.org.

I hope we can bring more of these technologies to the masses in better and easier-to-use manners to lower the technical hurdles.

#academic-samizdat #domainofonesown #humanities-commons #indieweb #indieweb-for-education #indieweb-welcome #posse #pressforward #rss #syndication #wordpress

https://boffosocko.com/2022/12/05/55812399/

Happy Friday @kfitz! You’re in luck—its not even horizon we’re watching for, but new lands we can walk. There are several options with varying levels of technicality and user interface affordances:

There are some well built and not overly complicated pathways that allow syndicating from your WordPress website to a Mastodon instance and getting responses back from them, just as I think you’ve done with Twitter in the past. Most of these can be done with plugins like Syndication Links or Mastodon Autopost or a handful of other similar plugins in conjunction with Brid.gy (which does the work for bringing back responses). Personally, I prefer Syndication Links for this and it particularly dovetails well with other IndieWeb infrastructure like Micropub clients.

There are a small handful of methods for “mirroring” your WordPress site so that it will look like its own (single or multi-user depending on your configuration) instance within the Fediverse running ActivityPub, meaning that those on Mastodon or other related platforms could follow your site directly. Most of them are configured as publishing only, so you won’t have a built in reader interface and would have to rely on other (available) infrastructure for those portions.

(More technical, and with a few less features) Brid.gyFed, which has options to do the syndication to a separate instance mentioned above, as well as making it look like your website appear to support ActivityPub. More details on this here: https://indieweb.org/Bridgy_Fed

Our friend Matthias Pfefferle, a genius engineer and longtime opensource advocate and WordPress developer who has also written significant pieces of other IndieWeb code you’re already using on WordPress, has written a handful of plugins which will make it appear as if your WordPress site supports ActivityPub out of the box. You’ll broadly want the following plugins: ActivityPub plugin, WebFinger plugin, NodeInfo(2) plugin.

They don’t have very many configurable options though some may be hiding a bit, so try:

• /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=activitypubwill give you options for how your posts appear;
• /wp-admin/users.php?page=activitypub-followers-list will show you who is following your site so you can more easily subscribe back via a reader if you like;
• /wp-admin/profile.php and look under “Fediverse” where your profile identifier will be found. It is based on your username within WordPress.

The documentation for these plugins are scant and I’ve got the intention to write up something explaining the subtleties and a few quirks, but it will have to wait until the holidays I’m afraid. In the interim, they’re not as complete as they could be, but the following two blogposts have some useful details and hints, though its obvious to me that they’re much newer in the space:

• https://odd.blog/2022/11/06/how-to-add-your-blog-to-mastodon/
• https://g13g.blog/2021/03/16/get-your-blog-posts-on-mastodon/

There are one or two quirks still pending for how things display if you’re using the IndieWeb-based Post Kinds Plugin, but the developers are generally aware of most of them and will hopefully get them ironed our shortly.

As a result, mostly of these plugins, WordPress is already the fifth largest number of instances in the Fediverse with an (under-)estimated 878 as of this morning.

I’m practicing both the POSSE option as well as Option 2 above on my own site, which can be followed at @[email protected], as an example. Matthias’s example can be found at @[email protected].

This is a lot to consume and potentially implement, so, as ever, I’m happy to help guide and lay out the sub-branching options or even hop on a call to walk through bits with folks who have questions. David Shanske and I have been thinking about doing some group sessions and some training videos to walk people through some of this within the next few weeks. There’s also the IndieWeb chat which welcomes questions and conversation which is sure to give you some additional perspective: https://chat.indieweb.org/wordpress/.

For the social reader portions I briefly mentioned, I outline some of those options last year at OERxDomains in A Twitter of Our Own.

Separately, congratulations to HCommons having stood up a Mastodon server so quickly!

It looks like it’s running Hometown, which has local only (unfederated) posting, though I’m not sure how many are aware of that useful feature (hiding on the link in the posting interface) which is sadly missing from most Mastodon instances, particularly for smaller communities. It might be something useful to add to the welcome email? I think this could be a great feature for Universities to allow more private class-based social networking while providing some safer spaces that don’t reach the broader internet and which might comply with FERPA. Obviously it would need some testing and some of the barriers for standing up and maintaining these servers to come down a bit.

There’s a lot of messaging and potential education to be had to roll it out well, but it could be interesting to see the WordPress offerings from hcommons.org include some of these IndieWeb and Fediverse tools as well.

#activitypub #activitypub-plugin #fediverse #humanities-commons #mastodon #posse #wordpress

https://boffosocko.com/2022/12/02/55812244/

I'm also a #Bilingual #Bilingualism researcher, but in #Japan, as well as an #EdTech pioneer, so I'm with you, bro! I noticed you changed from #HumanitiesCommons - where I'm set up and have my home Website https://japanned.hcommons.org - so I was wondering what good reason you must have had to change instances. As I understand it, Twitter allows 280 characters, Mastodon usually 500, but #HumanitiesCommons allows 1,000. I always take it to the limit :)
Now I see that your server also allows 1,000, so cheers!
@mguhlin @tomp @edutooters

Such a mass influx of amazing colleagues to the #HumanitiesCommons.
A little tempted but I really love our instance.
Our instance admin (I am not sure whether it is polite to @ them here) is awesome! Caught me whenever I forgot to add alt-text to images. Publishing a beautiful statement to warn people from scrapping without consent.
I guess I will just go to the Federated timeline a lot and follow a lot of people.

Hi everyone. After playing around a bit here, a short #introduction. My name's Victoria Szabo (she/her). I am a Research Professor in Art, Art History & Visual Studies at #Duke University (USA) where I work on #DigitalHumanities, #ComputationalMedia, #Information Science + Studies and related areas. I'm especially interested in spatial and interactive media archives, apps, and exhibitions, and in #digitalstorytelling around art, history, culture and work with various #interdisciplinary labs. I partner in the #collaborative international #VisualizingCities consortium and co-create artists' #games with Psychasthenia Studio. I am also Chair of the #Arts Advisory Group for #ACM_SIGGRAPH.

Looking forward to seeing how this community develops and appreciate #HumanitiesCommons for creating this space!

I just want to give a massive shoutout to #HumanitiesCommons project website manager. In an afternoon I was able to whip up a #WordPress site for my #Archaeology project to share with collaborators in #Japan, and they are blown away! It's under construction, but the tools make it so I can dip in and out with out any struggle.

Just gave to Humanities Commons to help support this wonderful resource, should have done so far earlier (I send people to Humanities Commons all the time!)

https://givingto.msu.edu/crowdpower/humanities-commons

#donate #HumanitiesCommons

I’ve tried #SelfVerifying by adding that line of html to my #HumanitiesCommons website but it doesn’t seem to be working. Is it because the website keeps “correcting” the html so the rel=“me” is at the end rather than the beginning?

Having moved over to #HumanitiesCommons yesterday, I believe it's time for a proper #introduction 👋🏽

Hi, I'm Toby, and am currently working as product manager of @Thoth_metadata - prior to that, I have been project manager on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project.

With a background in Cultural and Media Studies (MA in Television Studies), I am interested in exploring #OpenScholarship practices in their many facets - currently with a focus on scholar- and community-led #OAbooks #radicalOA #OpenInfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences 📚

For the last thirteen years, I've worked in projects that sought to foster uptake of #OER and #OpenEducation practices, #FLOSS tools for teaching and learning, & #OpenScience in more general terms and in a variety of configurations.

Btw. 2012-2018, I did a part-time PhD project on TV & Cultural Memory but eventually decided to step away bc. of personal/health reasons ... #mediastudies #commodon

🙌 Awesome! Thrilled to see Humanities Commons now have their own server, over at hcommons.social 🤩

Application to join has been sent, now moving my profile, please find me at @flavoursofopen

#OpenInfrastructure #humanities #HumanitiesCommons #commodon #MediaStudies

And next to taking care of the server, the amazing folks at hcommons also have prepared a comprehensive Quick Steps guide, at https://hcommons.org/docs/mastodon-quick-start-guide-for-humanities-scholars/

🙌 Awesome! Thrilled to see Humanities Commons now have their own server, over at hcommons.social 🤩

Application to join has been sent, now hoping for confirmation 🤞

#OpenInfrastructure #humanities #HumanitiesCommons #commodon #MediaStudies

And next to taking care of the server, the amazing folks at hcommons also have prepared a comprehensive Quick Steps guide, at https://hcommons.org/docs/mastodon-quick-start-guide-for-humanities-scholars/