Several Project Bamboo members are currently in Seattle, WA at the 2012 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Those attending include Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland), who is participating in a panel discussion on “#alt-ac: The Future of ‘Alternative Academic’ Careers”; Harriett Green (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), whose paper “Collaborative Economies: . . .
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Project Bamboo members present at Annual MLA Convention
Scholarly Services on the Bamboo Services Platform
Project Bamboo is working to model existing digital humanities tools as web services that can be accessed from a server that adds value to the tools by supporting basic functionality required across many tools, such as authentication, authorization, and the ability to store the results of long-running processes for later . . .
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The TCP texts and the query potential of the digital surrogate
“Query potential of the digital surrogate” is quite a mouthful, but the phrase usefully draws attention to two aspects of digital objects that scholars encounter in their work. A digital object will either be ‘born digital’, like this blog entry, or it will have originated in some other medium, in . . .
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How May Digital Collections Serve Scholarly Needs?
As part of the Collections Interoperability working group, we are investigating the question of scholars’ needs with digital collections: What kind of functionalities, features, and/or services do humanities scholars need in digital collections, in order for the collections to be useful in research? The reason we ask is twofold: First, . . .
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Bamboo Affiliates: Opening Up New Avenues for Collaboration
Project Bamboo has established an Affiliates program as a way to involve non-partner institutions who have similar interests and goals to Project Bamboo. We hope that these partnerships will mutually serve and benefit each party, creating long-term sustainability for the future. NINES (Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online) supported by the University of . . .
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Diggable Data, Scalable Reading, and New Humanities Scholarship
Later this week I will be attending the 2nd International Culture and Computing Conference at the University of Kyoto and presenting the paper “Diggable Data, Scalable Reading, and New Humanities Scholarship.” Digital Humanities is rapidly gaining a foothold in Japanese academic scholarship, and this conference features a strand devoted to new methodologies, ideas . . .
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Bamboo DiRT: Connecting Scholars with Tools and Collections
During the Bamboo Planning Project, workshop participants expressed interest in developing a directory of tools, services, and collections that provides relevant metadata (cost, platform, etc.) as well as information about how other scholars have combined these resources to achieve their project or pedagogical goals. However, participants also noted that an . . .
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Integrating Data Preservation & Citation Services
As part of Project Bamboo, a team from UC Berkeley Information Services and Technology is working with the University of California Curation Center (UC3) and Alfresco Professional Services to make available exciting new data management services for arts and humanities scholars. When fully realized, scholars will be able to easily . . .
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Describing Collections and Collection Services for the BTP
Digital information held by libraries, museums and archives is typically isolated in individual repositories making cross-repository searching difficult, if not impossible. Users of digital resources including humanities scholars, however, often search for information or resources pertinent to their field of endeavor irrespective of where the data is held. The establishment . . .
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Texts and the Citizen Scholar: Our Vision for the Next Phase
In mid-September, Project Bamboo partners gathered at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities for the next stage of planning for Phase Two of the project. In this workshop we took significant steps toward solidifying our Phase Two goals, mapping out a work plan, and preparing the proposal that . . .
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