Complete Operational Highlights January-July 2006
September 25th, 2006 by Ian CrewMuseum Informatics Project (MIP) Receives Computerworld Award for Business Intelligence:
MIP received a medal from the Computerworld Honors Program for its Business Intelligence for Scholarly Collections project. The awards were established in 1988 in order to recognize unique uses of information technology for the benefit of society. Debra Kelly, the project technical lead, accepted the Laureate Gold Medal at the awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on June 5, 2006.
More Information: http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2006/925.html
Project Lead: Debra Kelly, dkelly@berkeley.edu
Manager: Patrick McGrath, patrickm@berkeley.edu
Director: David Greenbaum, dag@berkeley.edu
Social Science Survey Data Gathering Software:
Completion of test version for a new web-based option within CASES; completion of test release for a substantially revised version of CASES (Version 6), which relies on a relational database to store and retrieve all case-specific data instead of the traditional proprietary structure; completion of test release for an entirely new Case Management System (as a part of CASES 6) to be used by both interviewers and managers in survey applications that require distributed (laptop-based) interviews in respondents’ homes.
More Information: http://cases.berkeley.edu
Project Lead: Tom Schnetlage, csm@csm.berkeley.edu
Director: Merrill Shanks, merrill@berkeley.edu
Social Science Survey Documentation Software:
Completion of new version of Social Sciences Computing Lab Web-based software for Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA), based on a substantially revised user interface, and installation of that version on the public-access SDA Data Archive for frequently used surveys
More Information: http://sda.berkeley.edu
Project Lead: Tom Piazza, piazza@csm.berkeley.edu
Director: Merrill Shanks, merrill@berkeley.edu
Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Architectural Analysis:
Completion of EDW roadmap phase I report, which explored the institutional need for an EDW through interviews with over 55 campus leaders in all facets of campus operations. This report synthesizes the opportunities they have identified and the criteria by which they will measure the success of an EDW.
More Information:
http://datasteward.berkeley.edu/documents/EDWPhaseIFinal051216.pdf
Project Lead: Thom King, thomasking@berkeley.edu
Director: David Greenbaum, dag@berkeley.edu
University Relations Donor Reports:
UC Berkeley Foundation data added to the campus data warehouse and BAIRS. Fund reports provide both Foundation and UC campus customers easy access to integrated gift fund data on deposits, acceptance, recording and transfers.
Project Lead: Peter Cava, pcava@berkeley.edu
Manager: Patrick McGrath, patrickm@berkeley.edu
Director: David Greenbaum, dag@berkeley.edu
Paper and Presentation on “Usability, User-centered Design and IT Services”:
IST and CIO staff Ian Crew and Allison Bloodworth gave a well received presentation at UCCSC in San Diego, encouraging UC systemwide technical leaders to incorporate user-centered design approaches in all facets of IT applications and services.
More Information: https://webfiles.berkeley.edu/icrew/public_html/User-centered.ppt.zip
Project Leads: Ian Crew, icrew@berkeley.edu, and Allison Bloodworth,
abloodworth@berkeley.edu
Director: David Greenbaum, dag@berkeley.edu
Interactive University Scholar’s Box Tool Open Sourcing:
IST/CIO now has official permission from the Office of Technology Licensing at UC Berkeley to release the Scholar’s Box under an open source license. This fall, we will do so, along with the appropriate documentation to provide tools and software components for community members and software developers concerned with sharing and remix of digital content.
More Information: http://interactiveu.berkeley.edu:8000/IU/SB
Project Lead and Manager: Raymond Yee, yee@berkeley.edu
Director: David Greenbaum, dag@berkeley.edu
Interactive University City Watershed Project:
City Watershed spent the final summer of its grant period working closely with environmental science teachers in San Francisco and Oakland to implement web-based tools in their curriculum. This new school year, these technologies will enable students to:
- Organize field notes and other research materials, and access them from the classroom, the field, the library, and home;
- Steward the water quality, weather, and biological data that they collect weekly at Lake Merritt, and map their measurements using Google Maps;
- View and create podcasts related to their coursework, and use iPods as portable reference tools;
- Exhibit tagged images from a Flickr photo collection to create a “Species of the Week” display.
More Information: http://citywatershed.migcom.com
Project Lead: Rick Jaffe, rjaffe@berkeley.edu
Director: David Greenbaum, dag@berkeley.edu
Interactive University FIPSE Project:
New project staff Noah Wittman, Liz Lee, and Michael Ashley work to develop ’scaffolding’ program for 6 courses in Anthropology. Through December 2006, the program will impact over 6 courses, 20 faculty, 41 graduates, 2 post-docs, 3 educational evaluators, 2 graduate student researchers, 4 interns, 3 industrial partners, 350 undergraduates, 6 staff, 3 departments. Over 16,000 media objects will be managed in the model.
More Information: http://iu.berkeley.edu/IU/October2004News
Project Lead and Manager: Michael Ashley, mashley@berkeley.edu
Director: David Greenbaum, dag@berkeley.edu