Project Bamboo Workshop: Day 2
Project Bamboo Workshop: Day 2 Notes
Fredric Gey, PI, Contexts and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies project
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
Digital Humanities Projects:
James Chandler, Debjani Ganguly, Anthony Cascardi, Neil Fraistat
J. Chandler: humanities center. CHCI. institute of advanced studies model.
Neil Fraistat: Director of MITH, Univ. of Maryland.
CenterNet
Debjani Ganguly: Humanities Research Center. Consortium for Research and Information Outreach (CRIO). Digital humanities hub, with research projects, support, collaboration
Interdisciplinary rubrics: visual culture, museums and collections, and cultural and linguistic mapping. Ethnographic film making.
Digital Humanities 2009 conference in June 2009 at UMD.
"Survey of digital humanities centers in the U.S." Diane Zorich. May 19, 2008
ISSUES:
- tension between scholars and builders
- labs virtual or physical (or both)
- need to articulate constraints of project bamboo
- how to pull existing laboratories from many institutions together
Tim Babbitt, Claire Stewart, John Unsworth
T. Babbitt: JSTOR's role in Bamboo Consortium.
Level the playing field -- expand to secondary schools; work with Irish Collection, Aluka; and broaden access to community colleges, etc.
Support web 2.0 features -- save and share user annotations, contributed content through library special collections
Stacy Kowalszyk (Indiana University Libraries): use share authentication services for automatic access, incl'ing highest quality objects.
Bamboo can help libraries -- enhance our collections, such as automatically get links for articles, images, digital editions to bib records, etc.; notification services, such as being notified when new material has been added
Negotiate with content owners for research rights, develop new language for license agreements. Bamboo can create discssion forums, best practices, community ties
J. Unsworth (Univ. of Illinois School of Library Science): TEI used widely but inconsistently. Why do mark-up? To get subset of books, go beyond keyword searching. Structural mark-up is also needed; they are meaningful units of analysis. It can be important ot know diference between the main text of a work and the paratext (table of contents, preface, running headers, etc). At a word level, tagging of proper names, etc., is necessary. In MONK community, debate about interoperability. Programmers debate usefulness of mark-up. [see Julia Flanders's response].
Bamboo can reduce the accidental via standards. Reduce needless divergence.
Rick Peterson, Alex Wade, Greg Jackson
contributions bamboo could make. limited, reasonable, not overly restrictive.
Important:
Project Bamboo could be central locale for housing tools necessary for digital humanities projects, along with links to and descriptions of projects with which they are associated. See: Bamboo Activity Demonstrations
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