{"id":2833,"date":"2011-07-01T10:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:03:23","slug":"project-bamboo-building-shared-infrastructure-for-humanities-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/project-bamboo-building-shared-infrastructure-for-humanities-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Bamboo: Building Shared Infrastructure for Humanities Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"wp-image-12706 size-full alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/PBamboo_Logo_sm.png\" alt=\"Project Bamboo\" width=\"280\" height=\"47\" \/>Several MITH staff members are currently working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectbamboo.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Bamboo<\/a>, a partnership of ten research universities, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of California, Berkeley<\/a>, and including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australian National University<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indiana University<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestern.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northwestern University<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tufts.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tufts University<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchicago.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Chicago<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/illinois.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Maryland<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Oxford<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/a>. Within Bamboo, MITH is leading Corpora Space. We are designing research environments where scholars may discover, analyze and curate digital texts across the 450 years of print culture in English from 1473 until 1923, along with the texts from the Classical world upon which that print culture is based. We are initially focusing on the following collections: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austlit.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AUSTLit<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nines.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online<\/a> (NINES); <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Books<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HathiTrust<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/ota.ahds.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford Text Archive<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Perseus Digital Library<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/tcp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Text Creation Partnership<\/a> of Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).<\/p>\n<p>As part of the design phase, Corpora Space held a series of workshops over the past eight months. The first meeting between Bamboo and Google gave Corpora Space partners insight into Google\u2019s design principles and process. The second workshop brought together software developers and scholars for a three-day <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.projectbamboo.org\/corporacamp-outcomes\/\">CorporaCamp<\/span> at MITH.<a href=\"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/woodchipper_lg.png\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Woodchipper_CorporaCamp\" src=\"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/woodchipper_sm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> Over the course of the three days, participants successfully built the Woodchipper, a prototype application for exploring distributed, large-scale collections through visualizations supported by techniques from data mining and natural language processing. The Woodchipper has been tested across large subsets\u2014up to several hundred million words \u2014 of the HathiTrust Digital Library, EEBO-TCP and ECCO-TCP, and the Perseus Digital Library. It allows users to build collections of texts from across these sources and to explore these collections by mapping them in a two-dimensional thematic space. (We are currently inviting users to <a href=\"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/corporacamp\/signup.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alpha test<\/a> the Woodchipper).<\/p>\n<p>MITH held ToolMixer, the third workshop in the Corpora Space Design process, on June 6-7. Tool builders, scholars, and members of Project Bamboo met to work on key issues related to connecting tools and architecture to digital collections. Project Bamboo partners were joined by representatives of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lib.virginia.edu\/scholarslab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars\u2019 Lab<\/a> at the University of Virginia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nines.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NINES<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.18thconnect.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">18thConnect<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HathiTrust Research Center<\/a>, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/seasr.org\/\">SEASR<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Nebraska-Lincoln<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucr.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of California Riverside<\/a> to hear presentations from tool builders and plan how tools would connect to the Corpora Space infrastructure. Additionally, we conducted break-out sessions to discuss how the various tools would link together in a scholarly workflow. This workshop brought us significantly closer to finalizing decisions about the core set of tools to be included in the initial implementation phase of Corpora Space, slated for Spring 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Our live tweets from the two-day event are archived under <a href=\"http:\/\/twapperkeeper.com\/hashtag\/toolmix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#toolmix<\/a>. Additionally, please return to the blog to read more on the latest developments of MITH\u2019s role in Project Bamboo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several MITH staff members are currently working on Project Bamboo, a partnership of ten research universities, led by University of California, Berkeley, and including Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77],"tags":[164],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Project Bamboo: Building Shared Infrastructure for Humanities Research &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/project-bamboo-building-shared-infrastructure-for-humanities-research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Project Bamboo: Building Shared Infrastructure for Humanities Research &ndash; 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