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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.

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 months. This taxonomy is designed to replace DiRT's current ad-hoc list of categories.

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 Stanford Conference and Exascale Workshop 2014 sponsored by the HPC Advisory Council.

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 open source, web-based collections management system (CMS), to museums and other collecting organizations.

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 digital humanities projects, events, and initiatives from around campus.

CollectionSpace 4.0 was released this month, rolling simplified configuration for implementing museums, and addition of a Work authority for citing cultural works.

Matt Massie of UC Berkeley's AMPLab and LBNL HPC Services engineer Bernard Li's new book "Monitoring with Ganglia - Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale" has been recently published by O'Reilly media. Ganglia, originally developed by Massie, is one of the most widely used tools for monitoring HPC clusters.

CollectionSpace is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 3.2. This release has undergone complete regression testing, and includes work focused on performance, usability, and aesthetics. Please visit the release page for details on what's new and what's fixed in v3.2.

The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 2.5. This release is the culmination of the first six-months of 2012 and represents improved functionality for search, locations and movements, date handling, controlled vocabularies, and hierarchical authorities. In addition, refactoring work was completed in the user interface layer.

In the 2.5 release:

Email sent to IST staff by Michael Mundrane, DCIO, on March 3, 2011

Colleagues,

UC Berkeley iNews, January 27, 2011

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation approved funding of $1.293M for the Bamboo Technology Project, following on an Planning Project funded by the Foundation that commenced in April 2008. The funded project grew out of planning contributions from scholars, librarians, and technologists at hundreds of institutions.

UC Berkeley iNews, October 20, 2009 Chris Hoffman The CollectionSpace project is hosting three webinars to introduce people to CollectionSpace, the open-source, web-based software application for the description, management, and dissemination of museum collections information. Webinar participants will get an advanced look at CollectionSpace; meet the design and development teams; learn about the software's advanced architecture, functionality, and user experience; hear about the production schedule and deployment plans; and learn how to get involved with the project.

UC Berkeley iNews, August 4, 2009

UC Berkeley iNews, September 2, 2008

Patrick Schmitz

The University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago were jointly awarded a $1.4M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to a carry out an 18-month planning project to develop a cyberinfrastructure for the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences.