The Open Education Resources (OER) Working Group of the River Campus Libraries (RCL) is working toward its third year of an Open Education grant program and has identified more low-cost/increased-access champions across campus. This year, we close out Open Education Week/Month 2023 by proudly announcing 7 new Zero-Cost Heroes.
In August of last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a memo on “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.” The crux of the message was that openly sharing research data is the best way to maximize the potential of new knowledge and benefit the most people possible. And as the memo points out, COVID-19 offers a convincing case study on this being a practice that should be embraced with open arms.
Originally from Southeast Michigan, Daniel moved to Rochester from Long Island in the fall of 2016 to join the University’s MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, an unparalleled program affiliated with the George Eastman Museum. Daniel specializes in photography’s diverse histories, as well as in handling and organizing a wide range of photographic objects. As a graduate student employee, he assisted with the lab’s diverse digitization projects.
Iskandar (Izul) Zulkarnain was a Mellon/CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Visual Studies at the University of Rochester. He completed his dissertation on Indonesian digital nationalism in 2015, with the support of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies also at the University of Rochester. His interests cover critical digital humanities, global/postcolonial digital media studies, and transnational video game and animation studies.
Josh is currently the programmer for the Digital Scholarship Lab. Originally from London, Ontario, he holds an MA in Film and Media Preservation from George Eastman Museum and The University of Rochester. His interests include fabrication, computer vision, video encoding, and electronics.
Think about one of your favorite movies or even one of the last movies you saw. Do you have a sense of how often a close-up occurred or what characters or objects received them?
Just to make sure there’s no confusion about the terminology, a “close-up” is any camera shot in which a character’s face, an object, or a detail in a scene take up most or all of the frame. So, could you offer a rough estimate of the close-ups in any movie at all?
It’s OK if you have no idea.
Meliora is more than a motto, set of values, or work ethic at the University of Rochester. It’s also the people who live, apply, and realize it. Students are an excellent example.
It’s a Saturday, a couple of weeks after a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered George Floyd. Rochester-area residents are gathered at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park for a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest.
Emotions run the gamut.
Words like “find” and “discover” make research sound like exploring a lightless cavern or some other vast unknown space. But in reality, it’s an investigation of what is known in order to increase understanding and reach new conclusions, thereby creating new knowledge. The problem is “the known” isn’t always accessible.
In June, 2020, Digital Scholarship, Learning Initiatives, RBSCP, and Metadata Services worked together to develop and lead a workshop series aimed at helping faculty imagine how to increase student engagement through the use of digital tools and assignments.
