IST-Data Services Blog

The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes

lizzyha — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:58:17 +0000

The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/the-argument-for-free-classes-via-itunes/ The New York Times Business Innovation Technology Society (Bits) Blog recently featured a piece by Brad Stone about the increasingly popular iTunes U, Apple’s catalog of lectures from colleges and universities around the world. Launched two years ago, there are now 600 schools participating. iTunes U makes more [...]

CineFiles Redesign and Botanical Garden Plant Propagation Information sites launched

Chris Hoffman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:51:38 +0000

The Informatics Services team recently released the results of two major projects: a major redesign and refactoring of CineFiles and the new Botanical Garden Plant Propagation Information web site. Hot off the presses, iNews has published an article (Campus collections: New systems for education and outreach) describing the systems and the importance of collaborative teams to their success.

UC Berkeley is home to numerous world-class museums, visual resource collections, archives, and other collecting institutions. While campus museums have always placed a strong emphasis on the stewarding and safekeeping of these collections and on fostering collections-based research, increasingly their role in education and public service has grown. Recently, IST released two systems that highlight this trend: CineFiles (for the PFA Library and Film Study Center within the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive) and the Botanical Garden Plant Propagation Information web system (for the UC Botanical Garden).

Spotlight- November 2009

lizzyha — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:10:16 +0000

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 [...]

Announcing CHAIN, a new forum to further the transformation of research in the Humanities through digital technologies.

Bamboo Project Team — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:51:40 +0000

A meeting was held at King's College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities:

• arts-humanities.net (http://www.arts-humanities.net/)
• ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/)
• CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/)
• centerNet (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/)
• DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/)

OKAPI Spotlight- November 2009

lizzyha — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:51:32 +0000

Every month, OKAPI Spotlight features Open Knowledge news at UC Berkeley and around the world. To contribute, email Lizzy Ha. To receive more frequent updates, join our email listserv . On Campus The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest Saturday, December 5, 2009, 9am-6 pm at Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/ The UC Berkeley Center for New [...]

NMC and UOC Release Call to Action for Open Education

lizzyha — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:31:13 +0000

Mara Hancock, the Director of Educational Technologies at UC Berkeley, was one of 40 international participants at the Open EdTech Summit. The Open EdTech Summit was held in Barcelona, from October 19-20, 2009 and was sponsored by the Open University of Catalunya and the New Media Consortium (NMC). “During the small group breakouts, summit attendees generated [...]

Project Bamboo Scope of Work for initial Implementation Phase

masover — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:08:31 +0000

Project Bamboo published a proposed scope of work for its initial year of implementation work, begining in 2010. This work will support the broader Bamboo Program, for which a Planning Phase has been running since April 2008 (cf. http://projectbamboo.org).

The document describing this proposed scope of work is published on the Project Bamboo wiki at this URL:

https://wiki.projectbamboo.org/x/SYUHAQ

The document describes two fully functional “Product Deliverables”:

1. Enabling Technologies to Support Communities of Practice will allow scholars in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences to describe their work, and to collaborate with technologists in generalizing workflows applicable across individual, disciplinary, and institutional practice; and then to collaborate in discussing, specifying, rating, and reviewing technology designed to support that practice.

2. Humanities Corpora and Curation Workspace, expected to be built on Collection Space services, is intended to support management, consideration, and dissemination of small collections, with particular emphasis on collections owned or held by individual scholars in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences.

In addition, the proposal describes sets of services that will support and enhance these “products” and — beyond Project Bamboo’s first build iteration — will support additional tools, application packages, and service compositions that support humanist inquiry. Last, the proposal begins to describe a service delivery platform (the infrastructural software technology on which services will run) for all the above, and the principles and processes that will guide its development and evolution.

The proposed scope has been released to the Project Bamboo community for review and feedback, and will serve as the basis of a funding proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to be submitted in January 2010.

Update: Refining Technical Deliverables

Bamboo Project Team — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:00:30 +0000

Project Bamboo has moved into its latest phase with the drafting of the year one Bamboo Technology Proposal to the Mellon RIT Program. We are now focusing in much more detail on Bamboo's technical deliverables. From now through November, we will be publishing iterative drafts of the Bamboo Technology Proposal, and contacting institutions and organizations who have communicated partnership or membership interest in Bamboo to clarify future contributions and roles.

CollectionSpace Project Webinars

lizzyha — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:15:30 +0000

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 [...]

Open Access Week Activities at UC Berkeley

lizzyha — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:38:29 +0000

October 19-23 is Open Access Week. In honor of this week, there will be on-campus events celebrating this growing movement! Below is a list of activities happening on campus this week. Please go here, to see the original announcement. E-Scholarship (CDL) for UCB Anthropology/Archaeology: Take Control of Your Publications with eScholarship (4:30pm Monday) The Future of Open [...]