Marketing is important for an open science NLP project such as Harmony for several reasons:
In addition to these specific benefits, marketing can also help to:
Overall, marketing is an essential part of any research project on the scale of Harmony. We don’t have corporate sponsorship and we’re not funded by a university department. By effectively communicating the project’s value and potential, marketing can help to achieve the project’s goals and make a real impact on the world.
In order to raise awareness of the tool, we have taken the following marketing initiatives:
In future, we plan to:
We hope to attract contributors, build support, and enable Harmony to prosper and develop further in the long term.
We have prepared branding material for the Harmony project. In the modern online world, even academic projects can benefit from branding initiatives.
Our brand manual is available as a PDF and we have a Github repository with all branding resources: https://github.com/harmonydata/brand
We prepared a number of graphics using Figma (screenshot below):
These graphics feature throughout the site and on our social media accounts.
The fonts used for Harmony are Montserrat and Pragmatica.
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You can also have Gradient (Aquamarine + Platinate Blue)
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[Beta mode: we are currently testing this extension] We have developed a browser extension for Harmony called “Send to Harmony” which lets you send selected text to Harmony with a right-click. For PDFs, use the popup to paste your selected text. Send to Harmony enables users to send selected text to the Harmony Data Harmonization (https://harmonydata.ac.uk/) platform for analysis. This plugin provides a right-click or context menu item which allows users to easily bring text from into their harmonisations, making it easier to compare and analyze different measurement scales across research studies.
We have a number of exciting updates to Harmony including: some improvements to the R library which have been asked for by researchers around the world who have been using Harmony on studies in lots of different topics as well as making our own fine tuned large language model available in the web UI, which is José’s winning model from the DOXA challenge which ended on 10 January 2025. Harmony has its own Large Language Model!