The Planning Process & Understanding Arts and Humanities Scholarship

SUMMARY
We will conduct four identical workshops in Berkeley, Chicago, the Eastern US, and Paris, where arts and humanities scholars will enter into a facilitated dialogue with technologists to help each other understand current arts and humanities scholarship practices as well as the future directions and visions of various disciplines. We will use this new understanding to explore and identify commonalities across various disciplines.

DATES
Workshop 1a: April 28-30, 2008
WORKSHOP COMPLETE
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Workshop 1b: May 15-17, 2008
WORKSHOP COMPLETE
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Workshop 1c: June 9-11, 2008
WORKSHOP COMPLETE
University of Chicago Center in Paris
Paris, France

Workshop 1d: July 14-16, 2008
WORKSHOP FULL -- Registration Closed
Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Arts & Cultural Policy Studies
Princeton, New Jersey

REQUIREMENTS TO ATTEND
An open invitation has been extended to those who share a common interest in leading the evolution of arts and humanities scholarly technology projects from singular endeavors to efforts that leverage services across the community. As all of the workshops currently full, we are currently exploring ways for those who were unable to obtain a slot at one of the workshops to join in the conversation at a later date or in a different manner.

PREPARATION
Completion of Pre-Workshop Assignments.

AGENDA
All of Workshops One follow the same structure and the same group activities. Individual presentations and times will vary from workshop to workshop.

Workshop 1a: University of California, Berkeley
Workshop 1b: University of Chicago
Workshop 1c: University of Chicago Center in Paris
Workshop 1d: Princeton University

OUTCOMES
After the Workshop One series, we will aggregate the findings on general practices. We will draft a report tentatively entitled Scholarly Practice in the Arts and Humanities listing the general set of practices performed in the course of scholarly work. Given the granularity of this set, we hope this list will be as comprehensive as possible. This report will be written for arts and humanities scholars as well as technologists, and will be reviewed and modified at Workshop Two.

After the Workshop One series, a small set of pilot projects will be initiated by the program directors, services architects, and developers to demonstrate uses of technology in the humanities domain. These pilot projects will be presented at subsequent workshops. These pilot projects will be based on industry-accepted practice and open standards for a services-oriented architecture.

One of the projects will select one of the general practices and develop a service that addresses a component task. This pilot project will be demonstrated at Workshop Two. At this stage, the selected component tasks will not have been defined by the community and will be developed optimistically and tentatively as a candidate service. However, by presenting a tangible expression of how services can function, this pilot project should facilitate understanding and critique of our process, as well as clarify our semantics and goals.

REQUIREMENTS TO ADVANCE TO WORKSHOP TWO
At the end of Workshop One, participants will be given criteria in order to move forward to the next workshop. Participants choosing to continue will be asked to gather institutional support as well as complete post-workshop assignments before the next workshop.

POST-WORKSHOP ASSIGNMENTS
Multi-institutional teams will be formed to validate and/or modify the set of scholarly practices. They will assess these practices with fellow scholars across scholarly disciplines and campuses to ensure that we have been as comprehensive as possible.