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A conference paper describing Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS) has been accepted for presentation at this year's ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2014).

“What Ever Happened to Project Bamboo?”, a retrospective on a Mellon-funded cyberinfrastructure project led by Research IT from 2008-2012, has been published in LLC, the Journal of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.

The One IT Summit is a forum for UC Berkeley IT staff and teams to network, share their work, highlight new technology and provide status on key initiatives. Please join us on Wednesday, June 25th, 8:30 AM - 2 PM AT Memorial Stadium Field, Club Level.

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).

We are having an event to mark the launch of the new UC Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) program, on Thursday, May 22, 3pm in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall.  Many of you contributed last year to the requirements that defined BRC.  Thank you for your time and energy to make this happen.  With your enthusiasm and support, we’ve been able to establish a partnership between the Chancellor’s, VC Research’s, and CIO’s Offices to sustainably fund the program. 

On March 19, 2014, staff in the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive began using an instance of CollectionSpace to manage their CineFiles collection.  CineFiles is a collection of scanned images and curated metadata from press reviews, newspaper articles, press kits and other documents describing films and cinema more broadly.  According to the primary managers of this collection, the move to CollectionSpace has been very successful and has allowed them to streamline their operations considerably.

On CalDay, in the oldest building on campus, undergraduate Cassie Xiong stepped to the microphone and introduced a new tool for understanding what many consider the defining event in UC Berkeley history. Xiong, an Interdisciplinary Studies Major and OCIO Communications intern, described her team’s design for a modern entryway to the Bancroft Library’s Free Speech Movement Digital Archive.

BRC and LBL HPC consultant Krishna Muriki and HPCS systems engineer Karen Fernsler will be presenting at GlobusWorld 2014 on April 15-17, 2014 at Argonne National Laboratory. The main theme of this year's conference is Setting Up a Campus Data Service since many campus IT professionals are charged with creating a flexible, highly-available service for moving data to, from, and within their campus.

The Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley began its fight for free and open discourse in 1964. As the fiftieth anniversary of this movement draws near, its legacy of openness and the right to seek, receive, and impart information endures.

After a year of development and two public comment periods, version 0.5 of the Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities (TaDiRAH) has been released and will be implemented on DiRT in the coming months. This taxonomy is designed to replace DiRT's current ad-hoc list of categories.

BRC and LBL HPC senior engineer Michael Jennings will be giving a talk on the "Node Health Check (NHC)" on Feb 4, 2014 at the Stanford Conference and Exascale Workshop 2014 sponsored by the HPC Advisory Council.

LYRASIS to Establish an Organizational Home for CollectionSpace Museum Collections Management Software

by Megan Forbes

Atlanta, GA - January 24, 2014 - LYRASIS is pleased to announce that it has received funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bring CollectionSpace, an open source, web-based collections management system (CMS), to museums and other collecting organizations.

Research IT is pleased to announce the launch of Digital Humanities @ Berkeley, made possible through a partnership with the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities. This site pulls together digital humanities projects, events, and initiatives from around campus.

CollectionSpace 4.0 was released this month, rolling simplified configuration for implementing museums, and addition of a Work authority for citing cultural works.

Matt Massie of UC Berkeley's AMPLab and LBNL HPC Services engineer Bernard Li's new book "Monitoring with Ganglia - Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale" has been recently published by O'Reilly media. Ganglia, originally developed by Massie, is one of the most widely used tools for monitoring HPC clusters.

CollectionSpace is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 3.2. This release has undergone complete regression testing, and includes work focused on performance, usability, and aesthetics. Please visit the release page for details on what's new and what's fixed in v3.2.

The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 2.5. This release is the culmination of the first six-months of 2012 and represents improved functionality for search, locations and movements, date handling, controlled vocabularies, and hierarchical authorities. In addition, refactoring work was completed in the user interface layer.

In the 2.5 release:

Email sent to IST staff by Michael Mundrane, DCIO, on March 3, 2011

Colleagues,

UC Berkeley iNews, January 27, 2011