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The bDrive repository offers everyone at UC Berkeley unlimited storage, strong search capabilities, and mobile access. This storage is an important data management resource for research teams. The ...Read more about Using rclone to transfer data to bDrive

As a Digital Humanities Project Archivist, Julie van den Hout has made good use of the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Program’s free, virtualized instance of...Read more about Digitizing 17th century Dutch documents

Graduating from UC Berkeley as a cognitive science major in 2006, conservation biologist Paul Elsen would have never guessed that he would return to Berkeley a decade later to become a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Following completion...Read more about ESPM postdoc crosses 150 years of observational biology with satellite data to mitigate biodiversity loss

We are glad and grateful to announce that Patrick Schmitz, Associate Director of Research IT, has received an Excellence in Management Award from the...Read more about Patrick Schmitz receives 2017 Excellence in Management Award

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is pleased to announce the addition of PhD student Oliver Muellerklein to the...Read more about Oliver Muellerklein joins BRC as a domain consultant

Since his college days at Brigham Young University (BYU), Adam Anderson has been measuring evenings and weekends in pages, rather than hours. “You can scan about 400 pages an hour, once you get in the groove,” he explains. Anderson, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at UC...Read more about Digital Humanist aims to run OCR over a terabyte of rare book scans

Ray Lee of UC Berkeley’s Research IT department is the lead for the CollectionSpace UI rewrite project, code-named “Drydock.” The following piece describes progress in improving advanced search and record-relating functionality in CollectionSpace. This work is funded by a recent grant from...Read more about CollectionSpace User Interface Rewrite: Advanced Search and Relating Records

The Biomedical Big Data Training Program (NIH T32) is pleased to announce the call for nominations for to enroll 6 current PhD students (preferably 2nd or 3rd year) for the second year of the program. The nomination deadline is Friday April 21, 2017.

From...Read more about Biomedical Big Data Training: Call for Nominations Open

On April 6th at 2:30 PM, Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) reached a new milestone: the 1000th user account created in the high performance computing (HPC) environment. The...Read more about Berkeley Research Computing celebrates 1,000 HPC users

The next Consulting Summit -- a partnership between the D-Lab, Educational Technology Services (ETS), the Library, and Research IT -- will be held on April 20th from 10 - 2:15 at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), in 190 Doe Library.

Consulting Summit meetings to date have...Read more about Spring 2017 Consulting Summit: April 20th