The Bamboo Planning Project: Developing "Cyberinfrastructure" for the Arts, Humanities, and Interpretive Social Sciences

We will give an overview and update on the Bamboo Planning Project, http://projectbamboo.org. Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in the arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: "How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?" The Bamboo Planning project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago, is half way through its 18-month planning and community design process. Over 100 universities, colleges, and organizations concerned with digital humanities have participated in the planning process to date. In this presentation we will discuss some of the cultural, organizational, and technical opportunities and challenges in attempting to develop cyberinfrastructure across a highly diverse set of scholarly practices and institutions.