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NoC-Network of Expert Centres<br />

The Network of Expert Centres 761 is a collaborati<strong>on</strong> of “centres with expertise <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> digital arts <strong>and</strong><br />

humanities research <strong>and</strong> scholarship, <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>clud<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g practice-led research.” The areas of research expertise<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>clude “data creati<strong>on</strong>, curati<strong>on</strong>, preservati<strong>on</strong>, management (<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>clud<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g rights <strong>and</strong> legal issues), access<br />

<strong>and</strong> dissem<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ati<strong>on</strong>, <strong>and</strong> methodologies of data use <strong>and</strong> re-use.” Membership <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> NoC is open to centers<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> Great Brita<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>and</strong> Irel<strong>and</strong> that have a formal <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>stituti<strong>on</strong>al status, recognized expertise <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> digital arts<br />

<strong>and</strong> humanities, a history of persistence, <strong>and</strong> an <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>stituti<strong>on</strong>al or <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ter<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>stituti<strong>on</strong>al focus of activity.<br />

Currently participat<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g organizati<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>clude the Archaeology Data Service (ADS), the Centre for<br />

Comput<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> the Humanities (CCH), the Centre for Data Digitizati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Analysis (CDDA), the<br />

Digital Design Studio (DDS), the History Data Service (HDS), the Humanities Advanced Technology<br />

& Informati<strong>on</strong> Institute (HATII), the Humanities Research Institute (HRI), the Oxford Text Archive<br />

(OTA), the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, <strong>and</strong> the VADS (Visual Arts Data Service).<br />

The purpose of this network is to enable all the members to pursue a series of collective aims <strong>and</strong><br />

objectives <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> the support of arts <strong>and</strong> humanities research <strong>and</strong> scholarship, for much of which artshumanities.net<br />

will provide a central hub. These objectives <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>clude (1) promot<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g the broad use of<br />

ICT; (2) provid<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g leadership <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> the use of digital methods <strong>and</strong> resources; (3) develop<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g <strong>and</strong><br />

exchang<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g expertise, st<strong>and</strong>ards, <strong>and</strong> best practices; (4) identify<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g <strong>and</strong> serv<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g the needs of the<br />

research community; <strong>and</strong> (5) c<strong>on</strong>duct<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g dialogue with stakeholders. NoC has a steer<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g committee of<br />

six vot<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g members drawn from the different centers; the committee’s role is to propose <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>itiatives <strong>and</strong><br />

activities, to provide reports to the membership, to c<strong>on</strong>vene regular meet<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>gs of the full network, <strong>and</strong><br />

to c<strong>on</strong>vene workgroups.<br />

Project Bamboo<br />

Accord<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g to its website, Project Bamboo 762 “is a multi-<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>stituti<strong>on</strong>al, <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>terdiscipl<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ary, <strong>and</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>terorganizati<strong>on</strong>al<br />

effort that br<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>gs together researchers <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> arts <strong>and</strong> humanities, computer scientists,<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>formati<strong>on</strong> scientists, librarians, <strong>and</strong> campus <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>formati<strong>on</strong> technologists” to answer <strong>on</strong>e major<br />

questi<strong>on</strong>: “How can we advance arts <strong>and</strong> humanities research through the development of shared<br />

technology services” Designed as a “community driven cyber<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>itiative” (Ka<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>z 2009),<br />

Project Bamboo <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>itially received fund<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g from the Mell<strong>on</strong> Foundati<strong>on</strong> as a plann<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g project <strong>and</strong> this<br />

phase c<strong>on</strong>cluded <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> September 2010.<br />

Project Bamboo is currently <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> its first 18-m<strong>on</strong>th phase of technology development that will c<strong>on</strong>clude<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> spr<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g 2012. The “Bamboo Technology Project” (BTP) has ten partner <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>stituti<strong>on</strong>s that have<br />

collectively committed $1.7 milli<strong>on</strong> dollars to this project al<strong>on</strong>g with $1.3 milli<strong>on</strong> provided by the<br />

Mell<strong>on</strong> Foundati<strong>on</strong>. This first phase will <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>volve the development of three deliverables: a research<br />

envir<strong>on</strong>ment for scholars <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> the humanities, a shared <strong>and</strong> foundati<strong>on</strong>al <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure that will allow<br />

both librarians <strong>and</strong> technologists to support humanities scholarship across <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>stituti<strong>on</strong>al boundaries, <strong>and</strong><br />

a technology bluepr<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>t for the next phase of the BTP that will focus <strong>on</strong> the “evoluti<strong>on</strong> of shared<br />

applicati<strong>on</strong>s for the curati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> explorati<strong>on</strong> of widely distributed c<strong>on</strong>tent collecti<strong>on</strong>s.” BTP’s<br />

technology development is formally organized around four major areas of work, Research<br />

Applicati<strong>on</strong>s (divided <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>to “Research Envir<strong>on</strong>ments” <strong>and</strong> “Corpora Space Redesign Process”) <strong>and</strong><br />

Shared Infrastructure (divided <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>to “Scholarly Web Services <strong>on</strong> Services Platform” <strong>and</strong> “Collecti<strong>on</strong>s<br />

761 http://www.arts-humanities.net/noc<br />

762 http://www.projectbamboo.org/about/. The Bamboo Project also ma<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ta<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>s a blog (http://www.projectbamboo.org/blog/) <strong>and</strong> an active Technology<br />

Wiki (https://wiki.projectbamboo.org/display/BTECH/Technology+Wiki+-+Home) to track progress <strong>on</strong> various areas of work.

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