Educational Technology Services (ETS) supports teaching and learning on campus with a variety of services, tools, and spaces for both instructors and students. DH at Berkeley partners with ETS and the Center for Teaching and Learning to support instructors in the digital humanities.
The Bay Area Digital Humanities Meetup brings together people from the academy and industry to explore topics such as network analysis, data visualization, text mining, and digital collections. Meetup members include researchers, students, data scientists, engineers, designers, librarians, and archivists. Co-organized by staff at Stanford and UC Berkeley, the Bay Area DH Meetup gathers quarterly and rotates around the region.
While the social sciences have long drawn a distinction between “quantitative” and “qualitative” research, digital humanists oscillate between methods of ‘distant reading’ and ‘close reading’.
The School of Information (also known as the I School) houses scholars in a variety of disciplines, such as information and computer science, design, social sciences, management, law, and policy. Currently, the I School hosts three degree programs:
DiRT Directory is a registry of digital humanities tools maintained by an international volunteer community of professors, students, and librarians. Use it for discovering and comparing tools for your DH project or scholarly workflow.
Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and hosted at the D-Lab, the Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a “low-stakes, no-prep” place for the DH community to gather on a regular basis to explore a variety of tools and topics. Members include a diverse range of students, staff, and faculty. Events have included:
The GIF, based in the College of Natural Resources, serves a wide variety of needs for geospatial analysis on campus.
D-Lab is a collaborative space for researchers to learn new data intensive analysis methods, utilize research workspace and tools, and receive consulting advice and training from seasoned analysts. The lab welcomes student as well as professional researchers and is staffed by graduate consultants. D-Lab is open to researchers from all disciplines and levels of experience.
The GIS & Map Librarian, based out of the Earth Sciences & Map Library, curates a variety of geospatial data and offers reference services to students, faculty and staff.
The GIS & Map Librarian offers services by appointment, including:
The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is an excellent resource for those interested in interdisciplinary research and collaboration. BCNM brings together students, researchers, industry figures, and the broader public to stimulate new perspectives on contemporary new media.