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We are having an event to mark the launch of the new UC Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) program, on Thursday, May 22, 3pm in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall. Many of you contributed last year to the requirements that defined BRC. Thank you for your time and energy...Read more about BRC Launch Event May 22nd

On March 19, 2014, staff in the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive began using an instance of CollectionSpace to manage their CineFiles collection. CineFiles is a collection of scanned images and curated metadata from press reviews...Read more about CollectionSpace launched for BAM/PFA CineFiles collection

On CalDay, in the oldest building on campus, undergraduate Cassie Xiong stepped to the microphone and introduced a new tool for understanding what many consider the defining event in UC Berkeley history. Xiong, an Interdisciplinary Studies Major and OCIO Communications intern, described her...Read more about Undergraduate team wins #HackFSM hackathon

BRC and LBL HPC consultant Krishna Muriki and HPCS systems engineer Karen Fernsler will be presenting at GlobusWorld 2014 on April 15-17, 2014 at Argonne National Laboratory. The...Read more about BRC and LBL presenting at GlobusWorld 2014

The Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley began its fight for free and open discourse in 1964. As the fiftieth anniversary of this movement draws near, its legacy of openness and the right to seek, receive, and impart information endures. As we consider the importance of open discourse and...Read more about A Hackathon for the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

After a year of development and two public comment periods, version 0.5 of the Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities (TaDiRAH) has been released and will be implemented on DiRT in the coming...Read more about A new taxonomy for Digital Research Activities in the Humanities

BRC and LBL HPC senior engineer Michael Jennings will be giving a talk on the "Node Health Check (NHC)" on Feb 4, 2014 at the...Read more about BRC/LBL NHC Talk at Stanford Exascale Workshop 2014

LYRASIS to Establish an Organizational Home for CollectionSpace Museum Collections Management Software

by Megan Forbes

Atlanta, GA - January 24, 2014 - LYRASIS is pleased to announce that it has received funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bring CollectionSpace, an...Read more about LYRASIS to Establish CollectionSpace Organizational Home

Research IT is pleased to announce the launch of Digital Humanities @ Berkeley, made possible through a partnership with the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities. This site pulls together...Read more about Digital Humanities @ Berkeley site launched

CollectionSpace 4.0 was released this month, rolling simplified configuration for implementing museums, and addition of a Work authority for citing cultural works. Documentation for the new...Read more about CollectionSpace 4.0 released