The inaugural 2018 University of California Digital Library Forum (UC DLFx), "Building the UC Digital Library: Theory and Practice," took place February 27th to March 1st at UC Riverside. The conference brought together librarians, digital technology experts, educators, policy-makers, and research support staff from the UC campuses and the California Digital Library. Participants discussed and explored how libraries and research support departments are engaging with the constantly changing and challenging world of data and digital scholarship.

UC Berkeley has recently embraced immersive visualization in the classroom, in research, and for public engagement.  While this extends across all campus disciplines and a number of technologies, a growing community is using photogrammetry to develop 3D visualizations of objects and places, both as digital documentation to answer new questions inextricably linked to materiality.  Dr.

UC Berkeley’s HearstCAVE project has leveraged teams of undergraduate students to develop new 3D content for the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Research IT’s Quinn Dombrowski presented on this work at the Academic Technology Expo (ATXpo), held at Stanford University on October 2, 2017.

A recent post on the UC IT Blog makes clear the security threat to University researchers: “Cyber attacks don’t just hit big corporations or governments or hospitals. Anything connected to networks is vulnerable, and that includes research and open science.”