Project Bamboo

Oxford e-Research Centre, John Coleman, Martin Wynne - Andrew W Mellon Foundation

Principal Investigator / Director: John Coleman, Martin Wynne

Oxford participants: John Coleman; Andrew Fairweather-Tall; Ruth Kirkham; John Pybus; Martin Wynne

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: http://projectbamboo.org/

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 2012

Funder:Andrew W Mellon Foundation

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): Input into the Bamboo process was sought from individuals who come from a diverse range of institutions (small liberal arts colleges to research universities), organizations (consortia to content providers), professional backgrounds (faculty, librarians,

 

 

Project Description:

Bamboo was a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort to bring together researchers in 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?" Project Bamboo was an 18-month planning and community design program where through a series of conversations and workshops, the project attempted to map out the scholarly practices and common technology challenges across and among disciplines to discover where a coordinated, cross-disciplinary development effort could best foster academic innovation. Input into the Bamboo process was sought from individuals who come from a diverse range of institutions (small liberal arts colleges to research universities), organizations (consortia to content providers), professional backgrounds (faculty, librarians, researchers, IT leaders, and technical specialists), and regions. Project Bamboo failed to move to the implementation phase.