"How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?"
Project Bamboo attempts to answer that question.
A broad-based initiative, targeted at the needs of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, Project Bamboo is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and led by U Chicago and UC Berkeley.
Individuals and institutions which commit to the initiative will participate in an 18-month process of discovery and synthesis, culminating in a blueprint of proposals for "coordinated, cross-disciplinary" efforts supporting academic innovation through the use of "shared digital technologies".
MIT faculty Peter Donaldson & Kurt Fendt (literature), and staff members William Reilly (libraries), Janet Bowker (IS&T), and Peter Wilkins (OEIT) attended the recent kick-off workshop held in Princeton, NJ. Concurrent sessions took place in Berkeley, Chicago and Paris, with expressed interest from over 100 institutions aggregated worldwide.
For more information about Project Bamboo (and how it got its name) visit http://www.projectbamboo.org. For updates and breaking news, join the PB wiki.
-Peter Wilkins, Molly Ruggles
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