What is the H-Net Commons?

The H-Net Commons is the new platform for H-Net Networks, built on the modular Drupal content management system. Think of the H-Net Commons as a public square or intellectual common market with free access to educational and scholarly information generated from local producers (our networks, also known as "lists").

Here is a quick summary of the features that will launch with the first public version:

Network-based blogging
Moderated discussion postings, with email notifications of new comments
H-Net Reviews fed to each network site, with discussion capability alongside each review.
Editor-customized pages with different “views” of content
Subscriber "home box" that can be customized to display specific types of content from various networks, including saved searches that dynamically update when new material is published.
Common web-based moderating of all content, with private editor-to-editor and editor-to-author comments on revised postings.
“Private,” member-only network sites for use by editors or affiliated organizations
User and editor individual profiles, with user-managed restrictions on what information is visible to the public
Customized menus pointing to the network’s featured content
Editor-vetted collections of links, essays, images, audio, and documents
Front-page feeds of featured, recent, and other content.
H-Net-wide and network-only searching, filtered by categories and tags attached to content by editors and users, that can be saved to any custom page or a subscriber's account.

Depending on the evolution of the software, the subsequent release will include: