Join our team - Research Data Management service design analyst

Submitted by Christopher R. HOFFMAN on January 20, 2015

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:

DiRT Directory presented at workshop on software sustainability at King's College London

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on January 15, 2015

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 Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.

Research IT participates in UC Libraries' Digital Humanities Common Knowledge Group

Submitted by Steve Masover on January 13, 2015

Research IT has recently joined the new UC Libraries' Digital Humanities Common Knowledge Group (CKG), hosted by the California Digital Library.

CollectionSpace 4.1 released

Submitted by Aron D. Roberts on January 9, 2015

On November 13, 2014, version 4.1 of CollectionSpace was released. CollectionSpace is an open source, web-based museums collections management and information system, now a part of LYRASIS (for background, see CollectionSpace Tech Team Formed at LYRASIS).

Research IT Digital Humanities Coordinator elected to executive council of national organization

Submitted by Steve Masover on January 8, 2015

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.

CollectionSpace launched for the BAM/PFA Art Collection

Submitted by Christopher R. HOFFMAN on January 8, 2015

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.

Micronet user group for campus IT professionals celebrates 25th anniversary

Submitted by Steve Masover on January 7, 2015

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.

Digital Humanities program receives $2 million grant

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on December 4, 2014

Participants in the digital humanities #HackFSM hackathon in April 2014

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 Digital Humanities”. Arts and Humanities Dean Anthony Cascardi is the project’s Principal Investigator. Excerpting from the News Center:

Social Science Matrix seminar sparks conversation on scholarly tools

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on December 2, 2014

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. Prosopography is a research technique applied to persons or characters whose individual biographies are not known; the technique investigates characteristics of a group of persons or characters within a particular historical or literary context, and relates them to one another.

New paper evaluates server energy use

Submitted by Gary M Jung on November 5, 2014

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.

Search form

Pages