Project Bamboo published a proposed scope of work for its initial year of implementation work, begining in 2010. This work will support the broader Bamboo Program, for which a Planning Phase has been running since April 2008 (cf. http://projectbamboo.org).
The document describing this proposed scope of work is published on the Project Bamboo wiki at this URL:
https://wiki.projectbamboo.org/x/SYUHAQ
The document describes two fully functional “Product Deliverables”:
1. Enabling Technologies to Support Communities of Practice will allow scholars in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences to describe their work, and to collaborate with technologists in generalizing workflows applicable across individual, disciplinary, and institutional practice; and then to collaborate in discussing, specifying, rating, and reviewing technology designed to support that practice.
2. Humanities Corpora and Curation Workspace, expected to be built on Collection Space services, is intended to support management, consideration, and dissemination of small collections, with particular emphasis on collections owned or held by individual scholars in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences.
In addition, the proposal describes sets of services that will support and enhance these “products” and — beyond Project Bamboo’s first build iteration — will support additional tools, application packages, and service compositions that support humanist inquiry. Last, the proposal begins to describe a service delivery platform (the infrastructural software technology on which services will run) for all the above, and the principles and processes that will guide its development and evolution.
The proposed scope has been released to the Project Bamboo community for review and feedback, and will serve as the basis of a funding proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to be submitted in January 2010.
