Twelve faculty members, graduate students, and staff from UC Berkeley joined 600 colleagues from around the world for the 2014 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. While individual faculty members and students have attended DHSI in the past, this was the first year that Digital Humanities @ Berkeley, an initiative coordinated by Research IT, acted as a co-sponsor of the event (through the generosity of the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, and the D-Lab). This sponsorship allowed affiliated individuals to attend for free, or with reduced tuition costs.
Quinn Dombrowski (Digital Humanities Coordinator, Research IT) taught "Drupal for Digital Humanities Projects", one of the 28 intensive, week-long courses at DHSI. This course provided attendees with a thorough introduction to building complex project websites and highly customized research environments using the Drupal content management system, without writing any custom code. The course built on a number of presentations she has given at the Berkeley Drupal Users' Group (BDUG), and at the D-Lab.
For more about Berkeley's engagement with DHSI, please see the Digital Humanities @ Berkeley blog.