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 overlooked corners of the library can be a tedious, time-consuming process.
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.
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.
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).
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, librarians, and data specialists are invited to attend, and learn about data services offered by the Berkeley campus.
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 Research Computing metrics. Cassie Zhang, our other UX/Visualization Intern, will be prototyping a “dashboard” for the Savio High Performance Compute cluster, to show researchers how they are using their Faculty Compute Allowance.
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.
Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Deb McCaffrey is now available to assist campus researchers, as BRCs latest 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.
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.
Software is as important as data when it comes to building upon existing scholarship. However, while there has been a small amount of research into how researchers find, adopt, and credit software, there is currently a lack of empirical data on how researchers use, share, and value software and computer code.
An initial cohort of Berkeley researchers has already made productive use of an experimental, powerfully-provisioned server loaned to UC Berkeley by the Pacific Research Platform (PRP) project and configured with JupyterHub.
Ray Lee of UC Berkeley’s Research IT department is the lead for the CollectionSpace UI rewrite project, code-named “Drydock.” The following piece describes progress in improving search functionality in CollectionSpace. This work is funded by a recent grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to LYRASIS, CollectionSpace’s institutional home.
If you’re a Berkeley researcher in need of significant computing power, the HPC@UC program can provide rapid access to high performance computing (HPC) resources at the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC).
Research IT is seeking a talented current UC Berkeley undergraduate or graduate student student to join our team as a Writing/Storytelling Intern, to help us develop news stories / case studies about how researchers use computing, to be published on the Research IT website and other campus news outlets.
What do the Phanerozoic eon and Precision Medicine have in common? For one thing: the statistical analyses of Alan Hubbard, UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Biostatistics, and head of the Division of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health.
Effective today, UC Berkeley campus faculty and their research teams will be receiving 50% more free compute time on the campus’s high-performance computing cluster, Savio.
Research IT Director David Greenbaum and Digital Humanities Coordinator Quinn Dombrowski represented UC Berkeley among the presentations at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) winter meeting in Washington, D.C. on December 12-13.
UC Berkeley’s Research IT group participated in the 2016 Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (MSDSE) Summit, held in New York from October 23-26.
Much of the UC Berkeley campus will be closed, or operating on modified schedules, during the Holiday Energy Curtailment period from December 26, 2016 to January 2, 2017.
Research IT services and support will be operating during this period as follows: