Project Bamboo - News

CFP - Broadening the Digital Humanites: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute

mlaron — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:03:23 -0600

Bamboo participants may be interested in a call for proposals to this summer’s Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship Summer 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, taking place July 19-August 12, 2010. Titled “Broadening the Digital Humanities,” the Institute will offer scholars the opportunity to explore the benefits of interactive media for scholarly analysis and authorship, illustrating the possibilities of multimodal media for humanities investigation.

Co-PI Change at the University of Chicago

mlaron — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:35:55 -0600

The fall of 2009 saw a leadership change within the Bamboo Planning Project. The University of Chicago's co-principal investigator, Gregory A. Jackson, left the institution to become the Vice President for Policy and Analysis at EDUCAUSE, thus leaving a critical vacancy within Bamboo. Shortly before the end of year, Chad J. Kainz stepped into the co-PI role vacated by Jackson to continue the collaborative and joint leadership of the project with the Janet Broughton, Dean of Arts & Humanities, at the University of California, Berkeley. Kainz has been with the planning effort from the beginning and will continue as co-director of Project Bamboo. He is the Senior Director for both Academic Technologies and Client Relations within the campus information technology organization at the University of Chicago.

Bamboo Planning Project Extended

cjkainz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:20:43 -0600

The University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago are pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted an extension to the Bamboo Planning Project through 30 September 2010.

Bamboo and Changes at the Mellon Foundation

cjkainz — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:41:22 -0600

On January 5, 2010, the Chronicle of Higher Education published on its blog an article regarding recent changes at the Mellon Foundation and in particular, the closure of the Research in Information Technology (RIT) program. Although the planning project had been supported by RIT, the changes have had a minimal impact on Bamboo.

Announcing CHAIN, a new forum to further the transformation of research in the Humanities through digital technologies.

mlaron — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:40 -0600

A meeting was held at King's College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities:

• arts-humanities.net (http://www.arts-humanities.net/)
• ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/)
• CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/)
• centerNet (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/)
• DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/)

Update: Refining Technical Deliverables

mlaron — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:00:30 -0500

Project Bamboo has moved into its latest phase with the drafting of the year one Bamboo Technology Proposal to the Mellon RIT Program. We are now focusing in much more detail on Bamboo's technical deliverables. From now through November, we will be publishing iterative drafts of the Bamboo Technology Proposal, and contacting institutions and organizations who have communicated partnership or membership interest in Bamboo to clarify future contributions and roles.

Draft 0.6 of the Bamboo Implementation Proposal Now Available

cjkainz — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:41:08 -0500

Version 0.6 draft of the Bamboo Implementation Proposal has been released and will be available for community comment and feedback through 19 August 2009. This draft incorporates feedback from Workshop 5 as well as a number of post-workshop comments and contributions by members of the Bamboo Community.

Bamboo focuses effort and releases discussion draft

cjkainz — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:27:35 -0500

The hard work, discussion and debate carried out by those who attended the Bamboo Planning Workshop 4 on 16-18 April 2009 provided considerable material and guidance to advance the planning effort of Bamboo. Since the end of the workshop that was hosted by Brown University, the Bamboo program staff at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago have been hard at work consolidating ideas and recommendations from workshop participants into a scope of work for the first implementation phase of Bamboo.

Workshop Four Travel and Lodging

mlaron — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:47:52 -0600

The web page for Project Bamboo's Workshop Four has been updated with details about travel to and around Providence, Rhode Island, as well as information about the room block at our conference hotel, the Providence Biltmore: http://www.projectbamboo.org/workshop-four

Thanks to Elli Mylonas of Brown University for putting this together.

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Bamboo is community-driven cyberinfrastructure planning project for the arts and humanities led by the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley. Bamboo strives to create a consortium of universities, colleges, libraries, organizations, and industry partners committed to supporting research, teaching and learning in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences. The approach central to the planning project is one rooted in creating, reusing, remixing, and sharing technology services across project, institutional, organizational, regional, and national boundaries. The fundamental thought behind this approach is that if we can share technologies and content in common ways, we will be able to reduce the overall effort in the long term to create new digital projects, increase the potential for greater innovation as more effort can be placed on new ideas rather than recreating existing solutions, take best advantage of specialized skill sets across the various communities to solve problems, and leverage institutional and community-wide economies of scale to tackle problems and sustain critical projects.

For more information on Bamboo, send email to bamboo_feedback@lists.berkeley.edu.

Workshop Four: Registration Period Now Open

mlaron — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:39:16 -0600

Project Bamboo's Workshop Four will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 16-18, 2009. The three-day workshop will begin Thursday morning at 9AM and run through noon on Saturday. The preliminary agenda for this workshop will be posted to the Project Bamboo website by March 6.

Previous Participants
Registration is open for the workshop and will extend through March 6, 2009. Registration is available to all organizations and institutions whose application was accepted for either Workshop Two or Three. We are asking participants to register in advance so that we can plan for meeting space, food, and beverages.

Virtual Participation
If you cannot attend the physical workshop, but wish to participate remotely, please select the appropriate registration form above and click on the virtual participation link.

New Applicants
Institutions or organizations who have not previously applied to Project Bamboo but wish to participate in Workshop Four, please send an email as soon as possible to bamboo_event_coordination@lists.berkeley.edu.

As we process registrations and finalize workshop details, we will update the workshop page posted at http://projectbamboo.org/workshop-four. If you have any questions regarding registration, feel free to contact us at bamboo_event_coordination@lists.berkeley.edu.