IST-Data Services Blog

Each month, we highlight news relating to digital scholarship, access and preservation at Berkeley and around the world. To contribute, email Lizzy Ha. On Campus 20,000 New Images from the College of Environmental Design http://havrc.blogspot.com/2009/09/20000-new-images-from-college-of.html The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley recently contributed 20,000 images to ArtStor. Images are available to the all the UC campuses via “the [...]

CollectionSpace, a open-source application to support Museums and collections management, will hosting se series of webinars in the next couple of weeks. The first webinar will be this Thursday, October 22 at 10 am PST. For more information, please go here. Current Schedule: CollectionSpace for Technology Service Providers and Developers, Thursday, October 22, at 10am PST. CollectionSpace for [...]

Each month, we highlight news relating to digital scholarship, access and preservation at Berkeley and around the world. To contribute, email Lizzy Ha. On Campus “Take Control of Your Publications with eScholarship” Catherine Mitchell- Director, CDL Publishing Group Monday, October 19, 2009: 4:30 – 6.00 p.m at Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Building, Room 101 In honor of Open Access Week, [...]

The Media Vault Program brought together users of its first generation services Friday afternoon, September 11, to share updates, gather feedback on functional requirements for a “generation 2” service and plan for a larger community workshop.  Following closely on the heels of last week’s workshop of access, preservation and digital [...]

Media Vault Program gathers providers of access, preservation, and digital curation services Who’s protecting our data? Can institutions such as UC Berkeley ensure “the cumulative record of the past and the well-tended, authentic, and readily accessible data of the present” on which scholarship is built?1 What is at risk if [...]

We are pleased to share our latest findings from our Interim Report.  Below is the Executive Summary. To read the report in its entirety, please visit the wiki or download the pdf here. Executive Summary of Findings “Scholarship is built on the cumulative record of the past and the well-tended, authentic, and readily accessible data [...]

Each month, we highlight news relating to digital scholarship, access and preservation at Berkeley and around the world. To contribute, email Lizzy Ha. On Campus 5 Major Research Universities Endorse Open-Access Journals By Ben Terris http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Five-Major-Research/8042/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en UC Berkeley, along with Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and MIT, ’signed a compact agreeing to the “timely establishment” of mechanisms for providing [...]

Each month, we highlight news relating to digital scholarship, access and preservation at Berkeley and around the world. To contribute, email Lizzy Ha. On Campus Opencast Matterhorn Project Awarded Funding from Mellon and Hewlett Foundations http://www.opencastproject.org/content/opencast_matterhorn_project_awarded_funding_mellon_and_hewlett_foundations http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/28_matterhorn.shtml The Opencast Matterhorn project recently received 1.3 million dollars from the Andrew W. Mellon and William and Flora Hewlett foundations. Scheduled to be launched [...]

Engagement with Partners •      We are in the middle of a process to re-engage with current partners in order to ensure that our current services were meeting their needs.  Made a few small changes to the services to enhance the utility for current partners. •     Engaged new partners including the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive [...]

Each month, we highlight news relating to digital scholarship, access and preservation at Berkeley and around the world. To contribute, email Lizzy Ha. On Campus Visual Resources Collection History of Art, UC Berkeley Image news and tech tips from the Visual Resources Collection http://havrc.blogspot.com/ The History of Art Visual Resource Center (HAVRC), a partner of the MVP, recently launched a blog [...]