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August 17, 2015

Visitors to UC Berkeley's website will find a new portal to museums and collections under the Research section (click the "Museums & collections" link).

This visually engaging page attests to the importance of UC Berkeley's museums and collections as a vital gateway to the university.  The museums and collections portal also includes a link to a more comprehensive list maintained by Research IT.

July 30, 2015

Research IT has migrated CollectionSpace systems that manage five UC Berkeley museum collections to a consolidated set of centrally-managed hosts and servers. The successful migration was a six-month effort, completed in June 2015.

July 29, 2015

Researchers who purchase machinery and equipment for use in their research can save considerable sums of money by taking advantage of the California Partial Sales Tax Rate Exemption, in place through June 30, 2022.

July 28, 2015

Digital Humanities at Berkeley, a partnership between he Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT, will be hosting its first Summer Institute on August 17 - 21.

In February 2015, a post to Micronet, a UC Berkeley mailing list for campus IT professionals, led to a BRC Consulting engagement with The Institute of Transportation Studies’ Connected Corridors program.

July 27, 2015

Though Research IT is heavily focused on the design and delivery of new services to support current research on the Berkeley campus, Research IT team members worked hard in 2014-15 to retire a number of systems and projects that once defined the cutting edge of information technology in scholarship. While the retirement of the Research Hub is perhaps the most well known effort, here we describe the effort required to retire two major projects other than Research Hub, and reflect on the lessons learned from them.

The Museum Informatics Project

July 22, 2015

Digital Humanities at Berkeley, a partnership between the Division of Arts & Humanities and Research IT, is pleased to announce grant awards for collaborative research projects and new courses.  Projects range from d3 visualizations of archaeological diagrams to gesture-based music improvisation tools.

July 21, 2015

The D-Lab has announced the formation of a new Cloud Computing Working Group starting in Fall 2015, in collaboration with the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) program, to bring researchers and staff together to tackle the challenges of comput

July 17, 2015

Research IT and the Library welcome Jamie Wittenberg to UC Berkeley and to their joint Research Data Management program team. Jamie recently completed her Master of Science in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

July 15, 2015

At the end of June, Research IT said farewell and best of luck to Glen Jackson, our colleague who retired after more than 20 years of service to UC Berkeley.

July 10, 2015

The campus’ Savio computing cluster received a major storage upgrade on June 12, 2015, when its Global Scratch file system was quadrupled in size, to a massive 885 terabytes (TB) of storage. The upgraded storage is also 250% faster, providing a peak bandwidth of over 20 GB per second, to better meet the demands of data intensive computations.

June 26, 2015

LYRASIS announced the release of Version 4.2 of CollectionSpace, its open source, web-based museums collections management and information system, on June 24, 2015. This version of CollectionSpace:

June 25, 2015

In Spring 2015 Biostatistics Professor Lexin Li decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform to teach Big Data concepts and practices to graduate students in the School of Public Health. Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Consultant 

June 24, 2015

Please welcome RJ (Ruijing) Li and Regina Xu, UC Berkeley students who have joined the UCB CollectionSpace team for the summer. Regina and RJ are undergraduates majoring in Computer Science.

June 17, 2015

Research IT welcomes IT Architect Jason Christopher to our team. Jason will be working on both the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) and the Research Data Management (RDM) programs, to which he brings his campus experience and analytic acumen.

June 12, 2015

On June 9th, Research IT leadership presented on the group’s new and ongoing initiatives at a well-attended session of the One IT Summit.

June 8, 2015

inspired by the May 11 Research Data Management Workshop, Rosalie Lack of the California Digital Library reflects on the changing role of the library in her article, “Does Your L

June 3, 2015

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria constitutes the largest annual gathering of North American digital humanists.  21 members of the UC Berkeley community, including students, faculty, and staff, will be attending DHSI this year.

May 26, 2015

On May 15th, Camille Villa of Research IT met with the Force11 Catalog Working Group on behalf of the DiRT Directory.  Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders united by an interest scholarly communications and digital tools.