Teaching, Learning, and Research

We propose a workshop to bring together the community drivers and participants in the Carpentries activities (https://carpentries.org/). This workshop will foster the development of a Carpentries community across the UC system; we will identify and enable the sharing of resources, materials, and good practices, and will brainstorm future activities to advance Carpentries work at our respective institutions.

The Research Data Management program at UC Berkeley has, for the past three years, provided on-the-ground consulting to researchers from disciplines spanning the campus. Much of the program's effort goes towards what we call “active data” – the files created, collected, processed and analyzed while a study is in progress. Frequently, this equates to terabytes and terabytes of material; or millions of files; or personally identifiable information from surveys, interviews, observations and experiments.

While Git is primarily used for version control for code and software development, it is also increasingly used for working with non-code data and files. Libraries in particular are increasingly using Git and GitHub in the context of metadata workflows.  Three current use cases from UC Libraries will be described, highlighting the variety of possible benefits and barriers to using Git for metadata version control, collaborative work and integration into software tools and workflows.

Hooray! There’s a new rollout on the horizon and everyone’s gonna...love it? Well at the very least, you can apply these seven tips during your software rollouts to minimize confusion during times of change. 

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Berkeley Research Computing and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business have partnered to provide new computing options to researchers at Haas. This session explores the partnership and service model that makes this new research computing possible, and how it's success has been extended to other departments and organizations across campus.

At UCSF we are and have remained one of the highest ranked clinical training programs in diagnostic radiology for the past four years. The secret to our success is in our educational innovation and our video conferencing on our large spread-out urban campus. As a university, we deliver educational content through Zoom, a simple, all-in-one solution that allows residents to meet across laptops, mobile devices, and in Cisco enabled conference rooms.

Is your campus using Digital Signage to the best of its ability? In this session we’ll discuss some of the Digital Signage technologies used at the UC San Diego campus. The focus will be broad and touch upon everything from simple setups to interactive wayfinding kiosks. We’ll also talk about using iPads for room scheduling displays… something that is quickly gaining traction at UC San Diego.

At UCSF,  IT has partnered with the Clinical & Translational Science Institue (CTSI) and the Institute for Computational Health Sciences (ICHS) to build a de-identified version of its Caboodle - Clinical Data Warehouse (CDW)  to support UCSF research investigators to have greater self-service access to EHR data. 

UCSF Schools of Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Nursing collaboratively developed and implemented a Shared Education Data Solution (SEDS)--a system to supplement our campus Student Information System with program-specific tracking capabilities to support the needs of teaching and learning. SEDS built upon a web application that was developed by UCSF School of Medicine in 2006. The key principles maintained through development were to leave the majority of functionality intact and to arrive at a shared set of requirements for any enhancements to the system.
 

The UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES) has been providing cutting-edge technology for interactive visual analysis of scientific data using immersive "virtual reality" (VR) environments to researchers in the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, across UC Davis, and elsewhere, since 2005.