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

01 March 2010

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. Fellows participating in the program will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects as well as through the production of their own draft projects in collaboration with the Vectors-IML/UC-HRI team. The projects that fellows create will at once enrich their understandings of the digital humanities and model the field for other scholars. Select projects will be published in Vectors, while the Vectors team will also assist some fellows with applications for further funding for the projects begun during the institute. Priority will be given to applications received by March 24, 2010. For more information, please see the full CFP document available at: http://vectorsjournal.org/journal/index.php?page=Submissions

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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 or if your institution or organization would like to become a Bamboo member or partner, send email to bamboo_feedback@lists.berkeley.edu

Co-PI Change at the University of Chicago

18 February 2010

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.
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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 or if your institution or organization would like to become a Bamboo member or partner, send email to bamboo_feedback@lists.berkeley.edu

Bamboo Planning Project Extended

02 February 2010

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.

The planning project was originally scheduled to finish at the end of 2009, but the overwhelming response to the initial call for participation prompted reworking of the project itself and a revision of the timeline. Nearly twice the number of institutions and organizations took part in the planning process as was originally anticipated and over three times as many faculty, researchers, IT leaders, librarians, and content specialists (exceeding 600 individuals) actively participated in the the workshop program. This necessitated major changes to the workshop structure, and one of many impacts was a shift in the workshop schedule. With the extension, the Bamboo Planning Project will be able to complete its planning process.

A characteristic of the planning project has been its series of face-to-face workshops, the last of which was held in Washington D.C. in June 2009. With the extension, Project Bamboo is planning a sixth workshop (Workshop 6) for sometime in late April/early May 2010. Details regarding Workshop 6 and invitations to participate will be announced and sent by the end of February.

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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 or if your institution or organization would like to become a Bamboo member or partner, send email to bamboo_feedback@lists.berkeley.edu