The Library and Research IT are currently recruiting for a Research Data Management Service Design Analyst to help define and develop a UC Berkeley Research Data Management service.
Once hired, the new analyst will work with a team of data management and library professionals in the following activities and goals:
In November, Camille Villa, Research IT's Digital Humanities Assistant, represented the DiRT Directory at a workshop on User Interface and Software Sustainability in the humanities and social sciences, hosted by the Center for e-Research (CeRch) at the Depart
Research IT has recently joined the new UC Libraries' Digital Humanities Common Knowledge Group (CKG), hosted by the California Digital Library.
Research IT is happy to announce that in November 2014, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive began using CollectionSpace as the collection management system for their art collection.
Quinn Dombrowski, the Digital Humanities Coordinator in Research IT, has been elected to the Executive Council of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH), the US-based professional organization for digital humanities.
Micronet, a UC Berkeley group for campus IT professionals, celebrated its 25th birthday on October 31, 2014. Founded in 1989, Micronet has become one of the oldest IT-related communities on campus; and also one of the largest, with nearly 800 members.
The “Digital Humanities at Berkeley” initiative, which has been supported by the work of Research IT staff since its inception, has been bolstered by a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, as reported by the UC Berkeley News Center piece “Mellon grant advances Berkeley’s Dig
Research IT Associate Director Patrick Schmitz and Near Eastern Studies lecturer Laurie Pearce have been co-leading a Fall 2014 seminar on prosopography, sponsored by the Social Science Matrix.
Data centers consume approximately 2 percent of the nation’s electrical energy, and roughly half of that is consumed by the IT equipment. Berkeley Lab researcher Henry Coles and Berkeley Research Computing HPC consultant Yong Qin recently published a paper with implications for improving the efficiency of energy usage in data centers.
On Sunday, September 21, 2014, teams of computer hackers, user interface designers and domain experts and enthusiasts convened at UC Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA), to present their entries to judges and spectators in the first-ever HackTheHearst hackathon competition.
The CollectionSpace technical team has gained two new members who will support and extend the museum collections management software through LYRASIS, the project’s new organizational home. Richard Millet, formerly of UC Berkeley’s Research IT, has joined LYRASIS as the CollectionSpace Technical Lead.
"#HackFSM: Bootstrapping a Library Hackathon in Eight Short Weeks" is a white paper published on 3 October, describing how this spring’s #HackFSM was organized and executed. The paper was developed by Research IT and The Bancroft Library staff.
On September 18th, Digital Humanities @ Berkeley hosted the Bay Area Digital Humanities Meetup at the Magnes Collection for Jewish Art and Life.
A funders’ view of data management, NSF’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure program, and bringing Box.com into alignment with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s privacy rule were highlights of the 2014 Fall Meeting of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) for Research IT’s David Greenbaum and Chris Hoffman, who attended from
Research IT is happy to announce that Camille Villa has recently joined the group as a Digital Humanities Assistant!
As a student employee in Research IT, Camille played a major role in organizing the #HackFSM hackathon during spring 2014, including suggesting the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive as the area of focus for the hackathon.
Research IT's new BRC HPC Condo Cluster service offering has gotten off to a roaring start.
Staff who create, manage, and provide access to digital resources at the University of California Libraries can now store these resources, together with their descriptive metadata, in a new UC-wide digital asset management system (DAMS).
At the June 2014 IT Summit, Research IT shared a set of posters describing the group's activities. The Research Data Management poster is posted on the One IT site along with other summit presentation materials.
On November 13, 2014, version 4.1 of