Workshop Two

SUMMARY
Workshop Two was a three-day workshop that built both off of Workshop One and the community contributions and analysis on the Planning Wiki.

After Workshop One, community members distilled the workshop notes posted on the wiki into themes of scholarly practice. These themes then became the basis of the future directions for Project Bamboo that were presented at Workshop Two:

  1. Advocacy (Leadership)
  2. Education and Training
  3. Institutional Partnerships and Support
  4. Social/Scholarly Networking
  5. Standards and Specifications
  6. Tools, Repositories and Content Partners
  7. Service Framework

After analyzing the list of directions as a whole, workshop participants met in small groups to discuss the potential risks and rewards of each direction, as well as develop a preliminary workplan for the upcoming Working Groups. Demonstrator projects, which will be built between Workshop Two and Workshop Three, factored into the discussion for many of these directions.

During the course of the workshop, an eighth direction, Stories, was proposed. Workshop participants met separately to discuss the role of this direction as Project Bamboo moves forward.

Finally, workshop participants engaged in preliminary discussions around different organizational and consortial models as the capstone topic of Workshop Two.

DATES
Workshop 2: October 15-18, 2008
San Francisco, CA
WORKSHOP COMPLETED

Goals

  • Update the Project Bamboo community about future plans
  • Lay out the framework for the future directions of Project Bamboo so
    that the community can help us to clarify and narrow the Project's focus
  • Define a set of working groups who will help to develop Project Bamboo between Workshops 2 and 3
  • Identify a set of institutions and organizations who will
    participate in Project Bamboo
  • Gather community input around consortial models that support
    the Project Bamboo implementation proposal

Institutions/Organizations Participating in the Workshop

  1. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  2. ARTstor
  3. Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
  4. Australian National University
  5. Blackboard
  6. Brown University
  7. Carleton College
  8. Cornell University
  9. Dartmouth College
  10. Digital Library Federation
  11. George Washington University
  12. Indiana University
  13. Intelligent Television
  14. JSTOR
  15. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  16. Microsoft Research
  17. Middlebury College
  18. New York University
  19. Northwestern University
  20. Open University
  21. Pennsylvania State University
  22. Purdue University
  23. San Jose State University
  24. Smith College
  25. Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR)
  26. Stanford University
  27. Tufts University
  28. UCOP, California Digital Library
  29. United Board
  30. University of Arizona
  31. University of California, Berkeley
  32. University of California, Los Angeles
  33. University of California Press
  34. University of Cambridge
  35. University of Chicago
  36. University of Colorado, Boulder
  37. University of Edinburgh
  38. University of Goettingen, Library, TextGrid Consortium
  39. University of Illinois
  40. University of Iowa
  41. University of Kansas
  42. University of Maryland
  43. University of Melbourne
  44. University of Minnesota
  45. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  46. University of Oxford
  47. University of Puget Sound
  48. University of Southern California
  49. University of Toronto
  50. University of Virginia
  51. University of Washington
  52. University of Wisconsin, Madison
  53. VoxPopulis PT
  54. Washington & Lee University
  55. Willamette University

Agenda: Pre-Workshop, Wednesday, 15 October
Location: Parc 55 Hotel, Barcelona I room, 3rd Floor

  • 4:00 State of the Project
  • 4:30 Exercise: Initial Impressions
    • Share your research interests or how your work interacts with humanities research
    • We are gathering together representatives from a range of backgrounds – scholars, libraries, IT staff, presses, funding agencies – around the topic of how technology can better serve A&H research. Based on what you have heard at the table and read from the proposal, what one or two questions, observations and/or hopes about Bamboo would your table like to share with the group?
  • 5:15 Large Group Sharing
  • 5:45 Q&A

Agenda: Workshop Day 1, Thursday, 16 October
Location: Parc 55 Hotel, Parc Ballroom, 4th Floor
Narrowing Bamboo's Scope

  • 8:00 Continental breakfast
  • 9:00 Welcome
  • 9:15 State of the Project
  • 9:30 Defining Bamboo
    • Themes of Scholarly Practice
    • Future Directions
    • Consortial Models
  • 10:15 BREAK
  • 10:30 Break-Out Group #1
    • Do you have any questions regarding how these directions interrelate?
    • Do these directions include your interests and concerns?
  • 11:15 Large Group Reporting
  • 11:45 Presentation
  • 12:00 LUNCH
  • 1:00 Turning Themes Into Shared Scholarly Services
  • 2:45 Break Out Group #2
    • List up to two questions per direction that need to be answered as we further shape them
  • 3:30 BREAK
  • 3:45 Large Group Reporting
  • 4:15 Recap the Day

Agenda: Workshop Day 2, Friday, 17 October
Location: Parc 55 Hotel, Parc Ballroom, 4th Floor
Identify Working Groups and Deliverables

  • 8:00 Continental breakfast
  • 9:00 Day 2 Agenda and Logistics
  • 9:15 Break Out Group #3
    • What are the rewards & risks of pursuing this direction?
    • How would you bound the scope of this direction?
    • What are the top three things a working group should address in the next three months?
  • 10:40 BREAK
  • 10:55 Large Group Sharing
  • 11:45 Four / Six
  • 12:00 LUNCH
  • 1:00 Demonstrators
  • 1:30 Break-Out Group #4
    • Given the scope, what is a rough outline of work through Workshop Three?
    • What milestones are critical?
    • What will it take to accomplish this?
    • Identify demonstrator projects if necessary
    • Are there any parties that should be involved in the discussion / consulted (toolmakers, industry)
  • 3:00 BREAK
  • 3:15 Four / Six Presentation
  • 3:45 Large Group Reporting
  • 4:30 Recap the Day

Agenda: Workshop Day 3, Saturday, 18 October
Location: Parc 55 Hotel, Parc Ballroom, 4th Floor
Guidelines and Culture

  • 8:00 Continental breakfast
  • 9:00 Day 3 Agenda and Logistics
  • 9:05 Recap working groups
  • 9:20 Consortial Model Primer
  • 9:40 Table Group
    • What kind of consortial model would work for Bamboo?
    • List up to two principles that Bamboo should adopt to shape its consortial model and /or other decisions
  • 10:15 Facilitated Discussion
  • 10:45 BREAK
  • 11:00 Recap Workshop
  • 11:30 Closing Perspectives

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