About AutiHub

AutiHub brings together citizen-led, open projects focused on autistic participation and representation in autism knowledge production.

The site develops tools for scientific monitoring, structured bibliography work and corpus analysis, with particular attention to the contributions of autistic people in autism research and related public scientific discussions.

Origin

AutiHub began as an initiative by Cédric Detienne (Belgium).

AutiHub is an evolution of Autidacts.org. It keeps the same citizen-led and open spirit, while developing more structured tools for documentation, monitoring and research.

Purpose

AutiHub is a volunteer, collective and open initiative. The site currently hosts projects about the participation and representation of autistic people, especially in autism science.

AutiHub supports projects involving scientific monitoring, structured documentation, bibliographic data and other tools that help examine how autistic people are represented and involved in knowledge production.

New projects may progressively be integrated into AutiHub, depending on needs, requests, proposals and available collective energy.

Technical approach

AutiHub is built with the Python Django framework, which supports clear data modelling and makes it easier to design, maintain and evolve the site’s features over time.

The project is developed progressively, with attention to transparency, accessibility, careful management of sources, and the use of development tools such as Codex.