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Digital Humanities community gathers for 3rd Berkeley Digital Humanities Faire

Submitted by Camille Villa on April 29, 2015

On April 7th and 8th, Berkeley’s digital humanities community gathered to share research and celebrate an exciting year of forging new collaborations. On April 7th, the Library hosted a panel, “Digitally Supported Research and Pedagogy.” The Social Science Matrix hosted the second day of the event, which featured a keynote address by Zephyr Frank, professor of Brazilian History and Director of the Spatial History Project at Stanford University.

UC Berkeley helps LYRASIS sustain and expand CollectionSpace

Submitted by Rick Jaffe on April 27, 2015

Members of the CollectionSpace community at UC Berkeley are actively participating in working groups recently formed by Atlanta-based non-profit LYRASIS, the software’s organizational home. Berkeley, with five major campus collections cataloged and managed using this system, plays a significant role in the ongoing effort to sustain and expand CollectionSpace in the museum community.

The LYRASIS groups focus on the following areas:

HPC cluster utilities presented at DellXL conference

Submitted by Gary M Jung on April 24, 2015

Berkeley Research Computing staff members Yong Qin and Michael Jennings gave talks highlighting their respective software tools, wwibcheck and NHC, at the DellXL High Performance Computing (HPC) conference this week, April 21-23, 2015, in Boulder, Colorado (agenda).

UCB Research IT participates in NSF-sponsored ACI-REF workshop

Submitted by Steve Masover on April 14, 2015

UC Berkeley’s Research IT group was invited to participate in the ARCC Workshop hosted by Clemson University in March of this year. The workshop was presented in partnership with the NSF-sponsored program for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators (ACI-REF) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Upgrades, New Home for Mellon-funded Digital Humanities Tool Site

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on April 2, 2015

Research IT staff have completed work on a $150,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a variety of new features and integrations for the DiRT (Digital Research Tools) directory, and transition the project to a new organizational home.

BPS receives funding for Tebtunis Papyri integration

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on March 26, 2015

The Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS) project has received funding from the Digital Humanities at Berkeley program to support integration with data encoded using Epidoc, a standard used by the Center for Tebtunis Papyri and numerous other classical projects.

Launch of Digital Humanities at Berkeley initiative

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on March 24, 2015

Dean Tony Cascardi at launch of DH at Berkeley

Members of the UC Berkeley digital humanities community gathered together with patrons of the Magnes Collection to celebrate the opening of a new exhibit, "The Future of Memory: Jewish Culture in the Digital Age”, as well as the kick-off of the Digital Humanities at Berkeley program on February 18th, 2015.

Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor developer training for Savio users

Submitted by Gary M Jung on March 3, 2015

Intel is sponsoring a free one-day in-depth training on the Xeon Phi Coprocessor to be held at Perseverance Hall (LBNL, Building 54) on March 27th, 2015 from 9:00am to 4:00pm.

CollectionSpace service gains manager and technical lead

Submitted by Rick Jaffe on February 27, 2015

John Lowe has accepted the role of technical lead and manager for the CollectionSpace service at UC Berkeley. CollectionSpace is an open-source collections information management system used by five UC Berkeley museums, and other museums around the world.

In his new role, John oversees systems operations and maintenance, collaborates with museum staff to address their collections management needs, and designs and develops web applications, reports, and other software related to CollectionSpace.

Communication and Collaboration Summit: March 12, 2015

Submitted by Christopher R. HOFFMAN on February 25, 2015

OneIT teams from Educational Technology Services (ETS) and Information Technology Services (IST) invite the campus to a Town Hall on March 12th to discuss content collaboration tools on the UC Berkeley campus.

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