Places in Text and the Bamboo Ecosystem

Eric Kansa of UC Berkeley created a video describing function and design of a scholarly service that is on the BTP Scholarly Services roadmap. The service is informally called "Places in Texts."

The video also gives an overview – from a researcher's perspective – of how the Bamboo Ecosystem is expected to support scholarship as its functionality comes on-line. The research workflow described in the video involves a client (e.g., Work Spaces); remotely-hosted content repositories and services; and a Bamboo Services Platform on which Collections Interoperability adapters, identity services, and proxy services to remotely-operating services are deployed.

The video is available on YouTube:

In addition to the video, Eric has prepared and published a number of pages and files that mock up a simple user interface for the prospective Places in Texts service, and allows visitors to examine sample input to and output from the service. These materials, comprising a feature demonstration of Places in Texts, are published on the newly-minted Project Bamboo Demos site.

Earlier today, Eric posted a blog on the Project Bamboo web site. Eric has already had enthusiastic feedback from humanists and technologists who are not directly involved in the Bamboo Technology Project.

Steve Masover contributed to creation of the video and feature demonstration materials; and the discussion of Places-Text services is, in large part, based on the work of the Google Ancient Places project (GAP), led by Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen, Eric Kansa, and Kate Byrne.