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The Digital Humanities at Berkeley program, a partnership between the Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT, has recently launched three websites that disseminate the research and/or pedagogy of faculty members engaged in digital humanities.

Research IT will be participating in the Spring 2016 Instructor Support Open House, organized by our colleagues in Educational Technology Services (ETS).

On December 18, 2015, the Research Data Management program held a workshop that was attended by thirty staff from the Library, Campus Shared Services-IT, and Research IT.  The workshop’s purpose was to discuss the research data management challenges these consultants are addressing, and to provide training on tools that can be used throughout the research data lifecycle.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) has released the NMC Horizon Report 2015 Museum Edition, identifying key trends and challenges impacting museums.

OpenHPC 1.0, a new open source initiative to advance high performance computing, has selected Warewulf as its provisioning component. Warewulf is a configuration and management toolkit created by Research IT’s partners at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

Thinking of adopting a collections management system for your museum or heritage institution, but the up-front cost is a barrier? One option might be a CollectionSpace mini-grant.

On November 19th, bConnected, Educational Technology Services, and Research IT co-sponsored a Town Hall, Powering Communication Across Campus. The two-hour One IT event gave Berkeley staff, faculty, and researchers the chance to learn about how various departments are working together to support collaboration across campus.

On November 12, 2015, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  (Berkeley Lab) opened a new center for advancing computational science and networking. Shyh Wang Hall is named in honor of the UCB professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who passed away in 1992.

On November 19 from 1:00-4:00, the Center for Open Science (COS) and the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will host a workshop on Openness and Reproducibility in Quantitative Research.  

Research Hub, the collaboration and file-sharing platform run for four years by Information Services & Technology (IST), has been retired. The closure, spurred by budgetary constraints, came as an unwelcome surprise to Research Hub users across campus.

The Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Program is significantly expanding the capacity of the Savio supercomputing cluster, and is adding new computing models to support additional types of workflows across a broad range of research domains.

On October 22nd, individuals from ten different campus organizations and UC partners convened at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science for a planning meeting that laid the groundwork for a second Consulting Summit, currently scheduled for April 2016.

Two new services -- in cloud computing and research data management, each offering free consulting help for campus researchers -- were spotlighted in a Town Hall on September 24, 2015, hosted by Research IT.

The UC Berkeley Research Data Management program, a campus-wide initiative led jointly by the Library and Research IT, is pleased to announce the launch of the RDM Consulting Service and RDM Guide!

UPDATE: The article published following this event includes slide decks and links to videorecordings of the 9/24 Research IT Town Hall.

Campus faculty and researchers are invited to a Research IT Town Hall on Thursday, September 24th to find out more about several campus services available to the UC Berkeley research community: