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![]() The Interactive University Project (IU) opened UC Berkeley's unique resources and people to California’s K-12 schools and citizens, beginning in 1996. Research IT archived and shut down the last of the MIP systems and web sites at the end of June 2015. ![]() By 2005 the xdb platform was showing its age, and the needs of campus research collections had evolved beyond its functionality. A major software platform - xdb - was developed to manage collections metadata, and web sites were built to share collections information with researchers and the public. Terabytes of images were digitized and stored. ![]() Over its twenty-year history, MIP helped a diverse range of campus museums, visual resource collections, and individual researchers initiate major digitization and web site projects. The Museum Informatics Project (MIP) set out in the early 1990s to build a world-class team and facility to digitize, manage, and share information about campus museum collections. ![]() While the retirement of the Research Hub is perhaps the most well known effort, here we describe the effort required to retire two major projects other than Research Hub, and reflect on the lessons learned from them. Though Research IT is heavily focused on the design and delivery of new services to support current research on the Berkeley campus, Research IT team members worked hard in 2014-15 to retire a number of systems and projects that once defined the cutting edge of information technology in scholarship.
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