Neocities & Zonelets blog
Building a handmade website by Arielle V & Jo.
Make your own academic profile website to showcase your work, interests, and projects. Here is a simple template.
Projects
A selection of current projects and toolkits spanning researcher identity, open scholarship infrastructure, and digital humanities making. Some are works in progress, and some began as teaching demos.
RIMS (Symplectic Elements)
Research Information Management support: profile workflows, publication claiming, identifier linking, and practical documentation for faculty and administrators.
CollectionBuilder
CollectionBuilder is a lightweight, static digital collections framework built with metadata-first thinking — ideal for small exhibits, course projects, and sustainable public-facing collections.
ORCID
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a free, unique 16-digit persistent digital identifier for researchers and scholars, structured as 0000-0000-0000-0000. It helps solve name ambiguity by ensuring your research outputs — publications, datasets, grants, and affiliations — are correctly attributed to you, even if you change names or institutions.
Why ORCID? by Jo Paterson
Open publishing & licensing
Practical guidance for creators: copyright basics, Creative Commons choices, and sharing work in ways that invite reuse while protecting attribution.
Open publishing workshop by Jo Paterson
Palladio
Network and spatial exploration for humanities datasets — great for experimenting with relationships between people, places, and events.
Palladio workshop slides by Jo Paterson
Knight Lab storytelling tools
Teaching-friendly tools for public scholarship: timelines, story maps, and multimedia narratives that help students communicate research clearly. Link to instructions here: Knight Lab timelines.
One of my genealogy timelines:
JavaScript mini-tools
Small web components to reduce busywork and improve reuse — data-driven lists, simple interactive elements, and “just enough code” for academic websites.
Omeka
Exhibit-building and digital collections workflows (items, metadata, themes, and narrative structure), with an emphasis on usability and long-term maintainability.
TEI & digital editions
Encoding and presenting historical texts with TEI and related tools to support search, structure, and scholarly reuse.
Researcher identity & PIDs
ORCID and persistent identifier workflows (including ROR and DOIs where applicable) to improve attribution, discoverability, and interoperability across systems.
Researcher identity presentation by Jo Paterson