Liberal Education Today

The Princeton workshop for the Bamboo Project began today.

This phase saw the workshop participants working on desiderata. Groups generated lists of what Bamboo could do, or become. Examples include: a professional association (annual meeting, offering guidelines) or “trading zones”; a clearinghouse for digital humanities projects; a think tank to track digital humanities; an aggregator for projects, tools, and information. Participants also thought Bamboo could: develop and sustain technical standards, develop sustainability models ; create online curriculum for the digital humanities; develop digital tools for research processes, or convert existing tools, resources into modularity; help set some standards, practices for doing and supporting digital humanities practice; advocate for interoperability.

Bamboo's project leaders then presented on the transition from the first phase of workshops, now concluded, and towards the second phase. The latter involves exploring scholarly practices, meaning a distillation of workshops' outputs into themes, partially done on-line. An exploration of current digital scholarship standards effort is involved, along with scope definition. Participants will be able to name and define proposed Future Directions on the project's wiki.

(from Project Bamboo's Flickr stream)

The next phase of Bamboo will also consider consortial models, soliciting aspects of what a consortium could look like (rather than full-fledged proposals).

Questions and answers followed.

• Q: where will workshop results appear? A: on the wiki.
• Q: differences between this workshop and previous ones? A: yes, but many commonalities.

Project Bamboo