Research IT
provides research data and computing technologies, consulting, and community for the UC Berkeley campus. Our goal is to advance research through IT innovation.
Status and Service Updates
12/22 - 1/9: No office hours during Winter Break
Research IT office hours will be closed between 12/22 - 1/9 and resume the week of 1/12/2026. Please reach out to us via e-mail for assistance in the meantime at research-it-consulting@lists.berkeley.edu
Wed, 11/26 - Thurs, 11/27: No office hours during Thanksgiving Break
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be holding office hours on Wed, 11/26 or Thurs, 11/27. Thursday and Friday are university holidays so we will be limited in our responses until we resume service on Monday, 12/1. Please contact us by e-mail in the meantime.
Mon, 10/27: Scratch File System Back Online
We have restored the scratch file system, and it is online now. However, this issue might occur again, so we will continue to work with our vendor, DDN, and the datacenter team to find a permanent solution. We appreciate your patience.
News Articles
Collection management systems for campus museums: CollectionSpace 0.1 released
UC Berkeley iNews, August 4, 2009
Chris Hoffman Whether they collect art or insects, museums across campus rely on collection management systems to provide the mission-critical platform for managing their collected objects and facilitating collections-based research. An earlier iNews...Read more about Collection management systems for campus museums: CollectionSpace 0.1 released
Delphi project exposes PAHMA's collections to the world
UC Berkeley iNews, September 2, 2008
Patrick Schmitz
The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA) is the oldest and largest anthropological collection in the western U.S., with some 3.8 million objects spanning nearly...Read more about Delphi project exposes PAHMA's collections to the world
Bamboo Project awarded planning grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago were jointly awarded a $1.4M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to a carry out an 18-month planning project to develop a cyberinfrastructure for the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences.
Bamboo is...Read more about Bamboo Project awarded planning grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation