Upcoming Event: Bamboo Workshop
This Friday, Digital Humanists from all over the world will gather in San Francisco to participate in a workshop organized by Project Bamboo. Kurt and Pete will be attending, and we here at the Hyperstudio look forward to seeing what develops!
In their own words,
Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question:
How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?
One of the most exciting aspects of Project Bamboo is that it is deeply collaborative. Bamboo offers a site of synergy across disciplines and across institutions. It remains to be seen what will ultimately be produced by Project Bamboo. At the very least, they are offering a valuable contribution to the evolving cyberinfracture of scholarship.
The first series of workshops was held last spring in Berkeley, Chicago, and Paris. The outpouring of enthusiasm was so great – and so many people and institutions wanted to participate – that a fourth workshop was held in Princeton. Part of an initial planning phase, the goal of these workshops was to begin mapping the field and imagining possibilities. Notes from these sessions can be seen on Project Bamboo’s wiki. The next series of workshops are meant to build upon these previous conversations and identify next steps and organizational principles for future work.
Once Kurt and Pete return from the workshop, we’ll post more on their experiences at the conference.