MISSION STATEMENT
PRIMARY CONTINUING GOALS
- Operate instructional facilities and
consultative services for both classroom and drop-in use that
support the major campus desktop environments in
academic computing--i.e., Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.
- Based on (funded) requests from a variety of
University departments, provide specialized research services for
data collection and data management, based on CSM software for
questionnaire-related applications and the Sybase system for data
base management.
- Based on continuing funding from an
international consortium of research organizations within the
public and private sectors, continue to enhance and extend the CSM
Program's software for the collection and processing of
survey-type data.
- At the request of the
Survey
Research Center and the
Museum
Informatics Project (and on behalf of
their respective user communities), operate multiuser UNIX-based
servers and associated software to provide on-line access to
large-scale collections of quantitative, structured, or image-type
data.
SECONDARY OR SUPPORTING OBJECTIVES
- Maintain programming expertise in the
development of applications software (written in C, C++, and Java)
for academic computing environments on the Berkeley campus. Place
continued emphasis on the user interface to such
applications.
- Maintain access to Sybase data
management and analysis as well as document preparation.
APPROACH
In general, the Laboratory defines its
long-term goals in terms of detailed agreements with departments
having social scientists who need access to computer-based data or
to instructional facilities. Such agreements define the division of
labor and resources that are required to provide the
computer-related facilities departments need.
Included in agreements are computing activities
that are administered within the department (if any), as well as
services it receives from SSCL and other IST
departments.