Partners & Contributors
Museum of the Moving Image

Opened in 1988 on the site of the Astoria Studio, one of the largest motion picture and television production facilities in the United States, the Museum of the Moving Image is at its core an institution for education. The mission of the Museum is to advance the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. Moving Image acquires, preserves, and provides access to a vast assemblage of more than 130,000 moving image-related artifacts. In the collection is everything from licensed merchandise to costumes and set materials. Its core exhibition, Behind the Screen, has been praised by The New York Times as “a show for the mind as much as the eye and ear.” The Museum also holds screenings of significant films and other moving-image works, including restored prints, silent films with live accompaniment, and contemporary film-festival picks from around the world.


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Peter Aaron/Esto
Information Services and Technology (IST) – University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley is home to major research and teaching museums in the arts and sciences. The Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the Bancroft Library, and the university’s five natural history museums include millions of artifacts and specimens, representing some of the most important collections of California history, culture, and biodiversity to be found anywhere. UC Berkeley’s Information Services and Technology’s Data Services Department (IST-DS) is one of four major departments in the campus’s central IT organization, charged with providing campus-wide data, content, and collaborative technologies. These services include museum informatics, enterprise data warehouse, enterprise content management, semantic technologies, and other data-driven tools for scholarship. IST-Data Services is the lead campus partner in CollectionSpace as well as the campus’s programmatic and technical lead on the Bamboo Project. As such, IST-DS has been working to integrate the collections focus of CollectionSpace with the arts and humanities-shared services strategies of Bamboo. IST-DS has also acted as the bridge between CollectionSpace and other Mellon-supported technology projects on campus such as Sakai, Kuali, and OpenCast.


Image courtesy University of California, Berkeley,
Steve McConnell/UC Berkeley
Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) – University of Cambridge

CARET is an “innovation unit” that creates Web tools to help researchers bring their discoveries to light. CARET also has a growing group of researchers involved in a wide variety of activities related to new technologies in higher education, ranging from needs analysis and evaluation to broader, externally funded research projects. The group is also committed to collaboration and open-source development, participating in projects such as Sakai, Fluid, DSpace, Opencast, and, of course, CollectionSpace. We also publish our work in accessible forms, research briefings, books and peer-reviewed research journals.


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The Fluid Project – OCAD University

Fluid works to improve usability, accessibility, internationalization, quality assurance, and security within cultural and academic software projects. The project combines both design and technology to create a living library of shareable user interface components that can be reused across software projects (open source and commercial). These components are built to be flexible and customizable while maintaining a high standard of design quality. Members of the Fluid team provide support to CollectionSpace as well as many other software projects, including Opencast, Decapod, OLE, Sakai, uPortal, Kuali Student, and Moodle.


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Richard Johnson/interiorimages.ca
Nuxeo

Nuxeo provides an extensible and modular Open Source Content Management Platform enabling architects and developers to easily build and run business applications. Designed by developers for developers, the Nuxeo Platform offers modern technologies, a powerful plug-in model and extensive packaging capabilities. It comes with ready-to-use Document Management, Digital Asset Management and Case Management packages. Using a fully open source development model, Nuxeo provides a subscription program with software maintenance, technical support and customization tools. 1000+ organizations rely on Nuxeo to run business critical applications, including Electronic Arts, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Orange, Pearson Education, and Jeppesen, a Boeing Company. Nuxeo is dual-headquartered in North America (Boston) and Western Europe (Paris). More information is available at www.nuxeo.com.