Working Groups (WS2 to WS3)
The overarching charge to all Bamboo working groups at this stage of the planning project is to identify areas and define approaches that should be considered for inclusion into Bamboo’s activities in the implementation phase. Because the current working group activity is part of the overall planning project, groups should not focus on seeking specific answers or conducting exhaustive research, but instead provide topic definition, chart courses, and develop action plans for Bamboo. This work should be supported by appropriate documentation, professional perspectives, and community contributions. Working groups should incorporate data gathered in previous workshops (as posted on the planning wiki), seek input from individual faculty and technical experts (including those outside of Bamboo), and engage professional and scholarly societies as need. Also, because time is limited between Workshops 2 and 3, we hope that working groups will focus on a small number of ideas and demonstrators rather than trying to tackle a broad array of topics.
Working group membership shall include representatives of institutions and organizations that participated in Workshop 2 as well as those who applied and were accepted into Workshops 2 and 3. Participation in a working group is not limited to only those individuals who attended Workshop 2; any member of a campus or organization’s extended Bamboo team can participate. In addition to a group’s membership, each working group shall be led by a team of facilitators who come from the Bamboo community and participated in Workshop 2, and include at least one Bamboo program staff liaison.
Because we are in the planning stage, working groups should seek to engage as many experts as possible, and share thoughts and ideas with other working groups. Most importantly, working groups should reach out to and seek input from faculty across the broad spectrum of disciplines in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences. The soul of this project is in the humanities and without input and guidance from faculty across a range of disciplines and institutions, we will run the risk of defining technologies and processes that lack a connection to teaching, learning, and research.
An added resource for working groups is the broader Bamboo community, and groups should feel free to pose questions or ask for input from all of those who have expressed interest in the project. The program staff can work with you to communicate with the community.
Finally, the demonstrators team is here to help and we encourage you to contact them with issues and ideas. Keep in mind that demonstrators don’t actually have to work – they can be concepts, mockups, diagrams, or illustrations that better reinforce or present ideas that emerge out of working group discussions. Demonstrators are a critical part of the planning project and we hope to see each working group take advantage of this opportunity to illustrate concepts that may difficult to explain or express otherwise.
Listed below are the working groups initially identified in Workshop 2 and further refined by the Bamboo Leadership Council and program staff. They differ some from the initial proposals, so please study them carefully.
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The Education working group should identify and define ways in which Bamboo can best support the professional development of faculty and staff about approaches and methods for the use of digital technologies in research and teaching in the arts and humanities. In particular, the group should consider the professional development challenges of a world in which individuals will create, repurpose and remix tools and content through the use of shared technology services. The group shall explore similar ideas for educating and developing undergraduate and graduate students. This can include a range of approaches from teaching individual skills to formulating curricula to mentoring. Finally, the group shall propose ways in which the different and diverse communities engaged in Bamboo can learn from each other and in doing so, develop an ongoing and shared understanding of the research and learning challenges and opportunities within the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences. To express interest in and volunteer for this working group, send an email to:
Include "Working Group Interest" in the subject line. The membership list and work of this working group will be posted on the Bamboo planning wiki.
2. Institutional Support Working Group
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The Institutional Support working group shall identify and define a range of support models for the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences that have the potential to contribute to the adoption of Bamboo services, methodologies, or practices by scholars and campuses. The working group shall take into account different types of institutions as well as the breadth of partners (faculty, research teams, humanities and digital humanities centers, libraries, IT organizations, etc.) that contribute to and support digital humanities. The working group shall develop ways to articulate both the scope and value proposition of Bamboo to a number of audiences including (but not limited to) faculty, librarians, technologists, Deans, Provosts, CIOs, administrators, donors, industry leaders, etc. To express interest in and volunteer for this working group, send an email to:
Include "Working Group Interest" in the subject line. The membership list and work of this working group will be posted on the Bamboo planning wiki.
3. Scholarly Networking Working Group
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The Scholarly Networking working group shall explore how faculty and scholars interact within a discipline, trans-discipline, as part of scholarly societies, and in mediated/in person settings, and collect and enumerate the challenges and strengths of each level of interaction. The working group shall define aspects and identify ways that existing models for social networking meet or don't meet these needs. Finally, the working group shall develop a hypothetical use case/environment for scholarly networking that could demonstrate value and potential to faculty. To express interest in and volunteer for this working group, send an email to:
Include "Working Group Interest" in the subject line. The membership list and work of this working group will be posted on the Bamboo planning wiki.
4. Tools & Content Partners Working Group
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The Tools & Content Partners working group shall identify and define models for tool and content source discovery that takes into account the range of institutions and organizations and breadth of partners across Bamboo. The working group shall consider centralized, federated, peer-to-peer, or other approaches as appropriate. The working group shall identify and enumerate models of integrating with existing tools and content resources with particular emphasis on those employing open interfaces and/or shared services. Finally in course of its work, the group shall gather references to specific standards and/or practices that would be of benefit to the Bamboo community to promote interoperability and reuse of content, tools, workflows, and/or services. We encourage this group to pursue a small number of demonstrator projects that explore the interoperability of representative tools and content sources in the digital humanities community. To express interest in and volunteer for this working group, send an email to:
Include "Working Group Interest" in the subject line. The membership list and work of this working group will be posted on the Bamboo planning wiki.
5. Shared Services Working Group
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The Shared Services working group shall define “scholarly activities” within the context of materials captured during Workshop 1 as well as narratives collected within the group and sought by the Stories working group (see below). The activities shall be analyzed by members of the group to identify a number of factors that will, in time, define and shape shared services in relationship to the services roadmap and framework. These factors may include (but not limited to) entities, service capabilities, and linkages. If specific standards, practices, or methodologies emerge, the working group shall gather references to these items for use later by other working groups. To express interest in and volunteer for this working group, send an email to:
Include "Working Group Interest" in the subject line. The membership list and work of this working group will be posted on the Bamboo planning wiki.
6. Stories Working Group
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The Stories working group shall collect narratives and/or illustrative examples on behalf of all Bamboo working groups that express particular aspects of scholarship, scholarly workflow, research, and/or teaching that are or could be facilitated by technology. The working group shall define a structured Bamboo-wide methodology for collecting stories so that materials gathered by one working group will be materially significant to another. In addition, the working group shall document its methodology so that it can be considered as a model for story gathering in the implementation project. The Stories working group shall suggest ways to enhance and/or reformulate Four/Six presentations to contribute to the story gathering process. To express interest in and volunteer for this working group, send an
email to:
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Include "Working Group Interest" in the subject line. The membership list and work of this working group will be posted on the Bamboo planning wiki.
7. Principles for Leadership
(on hold at this stage of the Bamboo Planning Process)
After reviewing the scope outlined by the Leadership & Principles group (who explored the Advocacy initial direction in Workshop 2), it seemed best to put this working group on hold until a later date where its material progress could be better integrated with the development of the consortial model for Bamboo and the Bamboo Implementation Proposal. We expect to return to the discussion of Principles after Workshop 3. To express interest in participating in this working group when it convenes at a later date, send an email to:
(on hold at this stage of the Bamboo Planning Process)
After reviewing the scope outlined by the Leadership & Principles group (who explored the Advocacy initial direction in Workshop 2), it seemed best to put this working group on hold until a later date where its material progress could be better integrated with the development of the consortial model for Bamboo and the Bamboo Implementation Proposal. We expect to return to the discussion of Principles after Workshop 3. To express interest in participating in this working group when it convenes at a later date, send an email to:
Include "Future Working Group Interest" in the subject line. The membership list and work of this working group, when active, will be posted on the Bamboo planning wiki.
8. Standards & Best Practices
(on hold at this stage of the Bamboo Planning Process)
Like Principles for Leadership, it seems too early to begin work on Standards & Best Practices. Progress is needed in the other working groups before moving forward with the work of this group. We shall return to defining a charter for this working group after Workshop 3. To express interest in participating in this working group when it convenes at a later date, send an email to:
(on hold at this stage of the Bamboo Planning Process)
Like Principles for Leadership, it seems too early to begin work on Standards & Best Practices. Progress is needed in the other working groups before moving forward with the work of this group. We shall return to defining a charter for this working group after Workshop 3. To express interest in participating in this working group when it convenes at a later date, send an email to:
Include "Future Working Group Interest" in the subject line. The membership list and work of this working group, when active, will be posted on the Bamboo planning wiki.
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