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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Texts and the Citizen Scholar: Our Vision for the Next Phase
Collections Interoperability: Enabling Research Across Repositories
The Collections Interoperability (CI) group of Project Bamboo is working to define and build shared infrastructure that will support collections interoperability and enable scholars to locate and work with collections and content dispersed across multiple repositories. During this initial phase of Project Bamboo, the CI group is leveraging and extending . . .
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Partners Meet to Strategize Future Development
Project Bamboo partners gathered in late July in Evanston, Illinois to complete plans for the current work (Phase One) and begin planning for the next phase. Currently in the eleventh month of our eighteen-month initial phase, team members reviewed development progress, planned future pilot testing, and began to map out . . .
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Discover, Annotate, Curate: A Follow-Up on the Corpora Space ToolMixer
Corpora Space is designed to be the facet of Project Bamboo that directly engages the scholarly user. Currently in its design phase, Corpora Space will provide users with a rich research environment in which they will be able to use a range of tools to discover, annotate, collate, and curate . . .
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Addressing Isolation within the Digital Humanities
The recently published white paper “Divided and Conquered: How Multivarious Isolation is Suppressing Digital Humanities Research” (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, Spring 2011) by Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities at NITLE, and Quinn Dombrowski, formerly involved in the Bamboo Planning Project (2008-2010) and current Manager . . .
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Upcoming Corpora Space ToolMixer, June 6-7
Project Bamboo Corpora Space will allow scholars to work at the cutting edge of digital humanities and textual analysis research. It will be a space in which they can discover, analyze and curate digital texts across large-scale structured collections. On June 6 and 7 Corpora Space will hold a ToolMixer, . . .
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Places in Texts: Illustrating a Prospective Project Bamboo Service
Project Bamboo has launched Places-Text, a feature demonstrator to illustrate how the possible service in Bamboo’s infrastructure could give researchers analytic tools to identify places mentioned in texts, including books, journal articles, and Web pages. Because many scholars regard place as a key concept in historical and archaeological studies, services . . .
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CorporaCamp Outcomes
Recent projects such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters and the University of Richmond’s Mining the Dispatch have provided compelling examples of the use of visualization to enhance and enable humanities research across large collections of data. Scholars can use the tools developed by these projects to identify patterns . . .
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BTP Six-Month Update
Six months into our 18-month developmental phase, the ten-partner team of Bamboo Technology Project (BTP) has coalesced to achieve a focused vision of immediate functional and technical requirements, interoperable systems architecture, and large-scale deliverables. The project team is currently researching tools and services for Bamboo functionality, in order to work . . .
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Launch of New Project Bamboo Website
Welcome to the new Project Bamboo website. This website focuses on the Phase 1 Bamboo Technology Project (BTP) work. Please use this website to keep informed of current activities (see the tweets, wiki feeds and blog posts). You will also find comprehensive information about our current work and, as they . . .
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