[okfn-discuss] [Fwd: Participate in Project Bamboo]

Fri Aug 15 15:23:17 UTC 2008

I thought this could be of interest to those of you interest in digital 
resources for the humanities!

Jonathan

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"Help shape Project Bamboo"
Posted at http://projectbamboo.uchicago.edu/news/help-shape-project-bamboo

The Bamboo Planning Project (Project Bamboo for short) launched four
months ago to begin to tackle the question: "how can we enhance arts and
humanities research through shared technology services?" Five structured
workshops with community input between each workshop make up the program
for the project and by September 2009, our goal is to have a roadmap,
plan, and proposal to launch a community-based cyberinfrastructure
initiative for humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences. We
are happy to report that with the completion of Workshop One, over 350
people representing approximately 90 institutions and organizations
joined us to share their thoughts and reflect upon current and future
scholarly practices in the arts and humanities. As we are now moving
into the community input stage between Workshop One and Workshop Two,
we're extending another invitation to those interested in this topic to
help us analyze the data and shape Project Bamboo as it moves forward.

Scheduled for October, Workshop Two will focus on three topics that were
specifically identified and arose out of discussions in Workshop One.
First, we will select and refine common themes that emerged out of the
scholarly practices discussions. These themes will be used to identify
and specify technology services that should be included in the services
roadmap for Project Bamboo. The second topic, direction, will take the
recommendations from the community regarding what Bamboo should become
and refine them further. This will include adjusting the scope of
Bamboo, exploring what issues the effort should concern itself with, and
enumerating what relationships should be developed as the project moves
ahead. Finally, we will engage in preliminary discussions around
different organizational and consortial models as the capstone topic of
Workshop Two.

Because the participants in Workshop Two need to grapple with the
themes, directions and issues that emerge from the community, we are
looking to the community-at-large to help us identify the important
pieces Bamboo should tackle as a project. Therefore, we invite anyone
who may be interested in Bamboo to join us in analyzing the data and
sharing their thoughts on what we've collected to date.

If you are interested in assisting with this effort, please
visit http://projectbamboo.org/join-us to learn more about how to
contribute to the project. For more information on Project Bamboo,
visit http://projectbamboo.org/. If your institution, organization, or
company is interested in participating in Workshop Two, instructions for
how to apply can be found on the "Join Us" page as well. Questions
regarding Project Bamboo can be directed
to bamboo_feedback at lists.berkeley.edu
<mailto:bamboo_feedback at lists.berkeley.edu>.