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A collection of digitized texts marks the start of a research project — or does it?

For many social sciences and humanities researchers, creating searchable, editable, and machine-readable digital texts out of heaps of paper in archival boxes or from books painstakingly sourced from...Read more about Go from Analog to Digital Texts with OCR

Construction has begun on a visualization wall at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Kroeber Hall that will immerse viewers in guided tours of archeology sites and other displays in 3D.

UC Berkeley’s Research IT has been working with Hearst Museum Director Ben Porter and the...Read more about Visualization wall under construction at Hearst Museum of Anthropology

A workshop will be offered Tuesday, March 7, 2017 on the use of Juypter notebooks on Savio, the UC Berkeley campus’s high-performance computing (HPC) cluster and on the other Berkeley Research Computing HPC clusters, Cortex and Vector.

The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that...Read more about Jupyter Notebooks on HPC: workshop on March 7, 2017

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is conducting a series of pilots to provide Instructional Computing Allowances to instructors who need significant computational resources for their classes. The first of these is beginning this semester (Spring 2017).

Classes across many departments are...Read more about BRC pilots Instructional Computing Allowances

Love Your Data Week campaign comes to campus February 13th-17th to encourage and teach researchers how to manage, secure, publish, and license their data. The University Library and the Research Data Management Program will host a set of LYD Week events. Graduate students, researchers,...Read more about Love Your Data Week 2017

Research IT welcomes two UX/Visualization Interns, a Container Research and Development Intern, and a User-Centered Design Research Intern to our team for the Spring 2017 semester! Samba Njie Jr., one of our UX/Visualization Interns, will be generating visualizations and reports for Berkeley...Read more about Welcome to Research IT's Spring 2017 Interns

Data scientists at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and the University of Washington’s eScience Institute teamed up with UCSF researchers to deliver a workshop on data-driven analysis and machine learning for neuroscience imaging data. The workshop was held in January 2017, and...Read more about Jetstream cloud support for multi-institutional data science workshops and research

Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Deb McCaffrey is now available to assist campus researchers, as BRCs latest domain consultant.

Domain consultants work primarily in their respective departments, while a part of their time is spent helping their peer...Read more about Deb McCaffrey joins BRC as a domain consultant

Reporting on collection data managed with CollectionSpace is complicated by the variation of data models and collection types used by diverse museums and collections that employ the software. Flexible modes of generating reports -- from use of the built-in JasperReports reporting tool or...Read more about CollectionSpace Reporting

This spring, a cross-departmental project team is forming to provide guidance and recommendations to the campus about existing and much-needed services for securing research data.

Researchers in a wide range of campus disciplines face an increasingly complex set of requirements to...Read more about Securing Research Data: Storage, compute environments, and beyond