Academic, Educational, Research Services
Covers educational technology; student services and systems..
Campus Collaborative Tools Strategy feedback request
The Office of the CIO and IST are working with the UC Berkeley community to develop a campus strategy on how to use technology to best support collaborative work on campus. Now posted for campus review is a draft of three sections of the upcoming Campus Collaborative Tools Strategy document. Deadline for comments is April 11, 2008. March 31, 2008.
Humanities and Arts Research Technologies (HART)
In fall 2007, campus leaders in the arts and humanities, computer science, the Library, and IST joined together to form a new initiative, Humanities Arts Research Technologies (HART). HART is meant to galvanize UC Berkeley's efforts to bring shared technology services to humanities scholars to help them advance their research and teaching. March 4, 2008.
Shared technology services to advance scholarship (cyberinfrastructure): A perspective from Information Services and Technology
This article briefly sketches a perspective on the question of how we can advance scholarship through the development of shared technology services, then highlights a number of specific initiatives IST is working on to help answer this question. March 4, 2008.
The Fluid project
Fluid is a worldwide collaborative project to help improve the usability and accessibility of community open-source projects with a focus on academic software for universities. To achieve these goals, Fluid is creating a collection of sharable user-interface components to be presented with a collection of design patterns that will help designers and developers determine how best to use these components February 28, 2008.
Collaborative Tools Strategy Development project
CIO Shel Waggener has asked IST's Data Services-Collaboration Services group to build an overview of the current state of collaborative tools on campus and the planned future directions of these tools, and to assess those directions in the context of the national discussion. This work ultimately will guide decisions about the implementation of new, and evolution of existing, collaborative tools, on campuswide and departmental levels. February 25, 2008.
Student Systems 2012 project update #4
This is the fourth installment of an ongoing series of updates about the 2012 project, a project which calls for new governance structures, systematic planning of the next generation of student systems, and immediate steps to consolidate and safeguard student data. February 25, 2008.
Digital preservation for all: A report from the Media Vault Program
As students and faculty increasingly expect to connect to vast banks of the University's valuable digital resources, the Media Vault Program is working to both safeguard these resources and make them more accessible to our community of scholars. February 21, 2008.
Open Knowledge and the Public Interest (OKAPI)
OKAPI is a newly formed group of faculty, students, and staff who share a common interest in public scholarship and are dedicated to promoting open access to knowledge at UC Berkeley and around the world. This article gives a summary of their current activities and future plans. February 21, 2008.
Collection management systems for campus museums
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a major grant to UC Berkeley and its consortium partners to create a scalable, flexible, internationalized, and full-featured web-based collections management solution for higher education and the broad museum community. February 19, 2008.
New semantic services activity in IST—Data Services
The Data Services group within IST is beginning a new activity around semantic services that will provide reusable, generalized tools to support research and teaching at UC Berkeley. These services leverage technologies for statistical natural language processing, as well as infrastructure to support social media and community annotation activities. February 19, 2008.
