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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.
Campus offers new cluster computing service
The Vice Chancellor for Research, in partnership with IST and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), is pleased to announce the Campus Cluster Computing Service. This fee-for-service, formerly available only to LBNL-administered research, is now being made available to campus researchers to meet the rapidly growing need for Linux cluster computing systems. September 27, 2007.
Retirement for Socrates and Arachne servers in June 2008
The services on Socrates and Arachne will be replaced with modern services such as CalGrid, CalWeb, CalWeb Pro, and the Unix and Windows Web Farms. The IST CalWeb team is reviewing customer usage of Socrates and Arachne and will be contacting customers during fall 2007 to assist with planning of migrations to one of the new services. September 27, 2007.
Webcast.Berkeley is growing!
Webcast.Berkeley is developing a next-generation webcast/podcast system for a fall 2008 deployment, with the primary goal of creating a more scaleable, low-cost enterprise system. In addition, this fall, Webcast.Berkeley will adopt the Creative Commons "Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives" license which allows participants to retain copyright of webcast materials, while allowing audiences to copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of the webcasts for noncommerical use. September 14, 2007.
Check out the Top 10 bSpace improvements
Improvements to bSpace, UC Berkeley's implementation of the Sakai collaboration and learning environment, for fall 2007. September 10, 2007.
Community source — You are the community!
About UC Berkeley participation in community source projects such as Fluid and Sakai. September 10, 2007.
New bSpace release and Blackboard retirement
UC Berkeley has officially launched its new release of bSpace, the Sakai collaboration and learning environment, for fall 2007. This release has improvements that impacts all users. As of July 31, 2007, bSpace is the single enterprise Learning Management System on the Berkeley campus. September 10, 2007.
UC Berkeley ETS receives Mellon Grant for the Fluid Project, a community source UI project
In April 2007, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced an award for $2.5 million in support of a two-year collaborative user interface (UI) project called Fluid. Fluid will help universities provide more usable, consistent, and accessible web applications to all users, including those with special needs. UC Berkeley is one of the project's core partners. Fluid will work closely with three community source projects, Sakai, uPortal, and Kuali Student, to create a living library of modular and reuseable rich UI components and design patterns for web applications, and build the software architecture to support their implementation. September 10, 2007.
