Adapting HUBzero for the Arts and Humanities
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Author: Bruce Barton
Project Bamboo is a multi-institutional effort to develop and deploy rich computing platforms and services for conducting collaborative research in the arts and humanities.
Two HUBzero Consortium members, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Indiana University, are extending HUBzero functionality for humanities research. We are integrating a CMIS client for use in browsing and retrieving materials housed in remote digital repositories such a HathiTrust and the Perseus Project. We are incorporating the open source Fedora repository to provide humanists with a rich infrastructure for storing local copies of digital objects, such as texts and images, and related metadata, and for representing the relationships between objects. We are building RESTful web services clients for HUBzero that will enable scholars to apply sophisticated textual analysis tools such as those delivered by the University of Chicago's ARTFL project to the objects they have curated. We are building techniques that will enable scholars to use the HUBzero workspace environment to apply locally hosted analytical tools to digital objects and to develop visualizations of their experimental results. We plan to incorporate an OpenSocial container into HUBzero so that tools implemented as OpenSocial gadgets such as Oxford University's Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts can be integrated into the user's experience of the HUBzero research platform.
In this talk I will describe our plans, what we have achieved to date, and the kinds of research HUBzero, adapted for the humanities, will be able to support.
Project Bamboo is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the contributions of ten partner institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Indiana University.
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