As oenophiles everywhere already know, "terroir" is "the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate." Participants were reminded in each of our Workshop One instances that Project Bamboo is gestating in a well-worked landscape: there are tools, standards, societies, and conferences that have made and continue to make fundamental contributions to much of the scholarly space that Bamboo hopes to address ... a kind of "terroir" in which digital humanities is evolving.
As the community considers what Project Bamboo ought to set out to accomplish, it is crucial to grasp the scope and nature of work that precedes our efforts, and that which is ongoing. A new section of the Project Bamboo wiki was therefore published in late August to map thought, tools, standards, and frameworks/APIs relevant to cyberinfrastructure efforts in Arts and Humanities scholarship. This family of pages includes a bibliography-in-progress of articles and reports of interest to Project Bamboo, but the pages map out a broader landscape ... hence the name "Terroir" rather than a more narrowly defined term.
Community contribution to these pages is essential to both their completeness and utility!
Participants are encouraged to explore less familiar territory mapped out on these pages, and to contribute knowledge of the digital humanities landscape missing from this collection of resources. Wiki gardeners on the Project Bamboo program staff will enter and organize entries on the Terroir pages, but everyone is welcome to suggest links by commenting on the pages themselves (click the "Add Comment" link at the bottom of a page), or by recommending links via del.i.cious (using the tag for:projectbamboo) if that's easier or more natural.