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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.

Project Bamboo has moved into its latest phase with the drafting of the year one Bamboo Technology Proposal to the Mellon RIT Program. We are now focusing in much more detail on Bamboo's technical deliverables. From now through November, we will be publishing iterative drafts of the Bamboo Technology Proposal, and contacting institutions and organizations who have communicated partnership or membership interest in Bamboo to clarify future contributions and roles.

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CollectionSpace, a open-source application to support Museums and collections management, will hosting se series of webinars in the next couple of weeks. The first webinar will be this Thursday, October 22 at 10 am PST. For more information, please go here. Current Schedule: CollectionSpace for Technology Service Providers and Developers, Thursday, October 22, at 10am PST. CollectionSpace for [...]

October 19-23 is Open Access Week. In honor of this week, there will be on-campus events celebrating this growing movement! Below is a list of activities happening on campus this week. Please go here, to see the original announcement. E-Scholarship (CDL) for UCB Anthropology/Archaeology: Take Control of Your Publications with eScholarship (4:30pm Monday) The Future of Open [...]

An Open Access Week presentation open to all Anthropology faculty and graduate students, ARF affiliates, and other interested students and faculty Catherine Mitchell Director, CDL Publishing Group University of California Monday, October 19, 2009 4:30 – 6.00 p.m. Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Building, Room 101 • Keep your copyright • Reach more readers • Publish when you want to • Protect your work’s future …all [...]

On October 6, the CollectionSpace project team announced the 0.2 release of the community source collection management system.  As the news item states, this release:

allows users to login to the system, create a new intake record, and auto-fill intake and object identification numbers. Information groups within data entry screens can be collapsed and expanded to maximize screen efficiency (use the plus/minus signs to the left of the information group name; e.g. object identification information). Updates to the object, create new main page, and find/edit main page are also incorporated into this release.

Equally important, this release demonstrates that the project team is gaining momentum towards the version 1 release in June 2010.  The next release is intended to continue accelerating the pace of development and will include:

an expansion of the ID service to include a choice of sequential identification numbers; the first version of the vocabulary service, which will provide access to controlled lists; and support for acquisition.

Also tantalizing, the UCB services team is working on some of the important schema customization and multi-tenancy capabilities for the system.

UC Berkeley, along with Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed a five-member pact, in order to “provid[e] ‘barrier-free access to information’ — from DNA-sequencing data to medical research to sociological studies — to academics and the general public alike.” In order to fulfill its promise in the pact, the Berkeley [...]

Join project Principal Investigator Carl Goodman and Project Manager Megan Forbes at the MCN 2009 Conference in Portland, OR from November 11-14. On Thursday, November 12th, Carl will take part in the session "Doing More with Less: A Community-Software-Based Technology Strategy Roundtable," along with Christopher Mackie, Associate Program Officer, Research in Information Technology, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Alison Gilchrest, Program Associate, Museums and Art Conservation, The Andrew W.

The CollectionSpace project team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace 0.2, which allows users to login to the system, create a new intake record, and auto-fill intake and object identification numbers. Information groups within data entry screens can be collapsed and expanded to maximize screen efficiency (use the plus/minus signs to the left of the information group name; e.g. object identification information). Updates to the object, create new main page, and find/edit main page are also incorporated into this release.

The CollectionSpace October 2009 status report has been posted on the project wiki.