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Workshop Six: Registration Period Now Open
12 May 2010

Project Bamboo's Workshop Six will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 17-18, 2010. The two-day workshop will begin Thursday morning at 9am and run through 3pm on Friday. The preliminary agenda is available on the Project Bamboo website: http://www.projectbamboo.org/workshop-six.

As we process registrations and finalize workshop details, we will update the workshop page posted at http://projectbamboo.org/workshop-six. If you have any questions regarding registration, feel free to contact us at bamboo_event_coordination@lists.berkeley.edu

Project Bamboo is community-driven cyberinfrastructure planning project for the arts and humanities led by the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley. Project 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.

For more information on Bamboo, send email to bamboo_feedback@lists.berkeley.edu.

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

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