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Dataset readme template
No full textThis is a text file of a dataset readme template researchers can use to create descriptive readme files for datasets. Using the examples in the template as a guide, researchers can use as much, or as little as they need to make their datasets accessible and reproducible when submitting to URRR or other data repositories.This readme template is available as a plain text (.txt) file with markdown formatting; a markdown file (.txt.md) which can be viewed with formatting in text editors like Visual Studio; and in a styled HTML (.txt.html) file.This readme template was adapted in part from suggestions created by Cornell University (https://data.research.cornell.edu/data-management/sharing/readme/) and Mozilla Science Lab (https://mozillascience.github.io/open-data-primers/2.3-data-readme.html) by University of Rochester Data Services.For more information on organizing data or how to best utilize a readme, please visit the UR Data Management and Share Research Guide.</p
Love Data Month: a Journey of Continuous Enhancement
No full textThis presentation material supports a workshop presented at the 2024 RIT & UR Staff Conference.Since 2022, the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries have been engaging in Love Data Month, extending Love Data Week as an opportunity for the Data Team to collaborate with other departments to provide rich data programming. Under the theme “My Kind of Data”, Love Data 2024 continued this tradition, focusing on social events and skills workshops, which have been popular in the past.Specifically, we hosted workshops on Metadata and Documentation, AI Ethics, ArcGIS, OpenRefine, and Excel, showed a documentary, orchestrated a faculty panel on DEIA research, held a data party, curated a book display on data and DEIA, and displayed data boards across numerous UR libraries. Despite the challenges, the month saw remarkable success with 320 registrations, 227 live attendees, and a 9.5/10 satisfaction score.In this lighting talk, we discussed our programming efforts, reflect on the challenges and successes, share ideas to make the program more sustainable in the future, and examine the impact of our events on participants and the broader community.</p
Tip of the Iceberg: Pythonic Insights from a Large XML Bibliometric Collection
No full textPoster presented at the 2024 Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community conference. Details about the conference available at https://www.bric-conference.ca/bric-2024-program.</p
Accessibility in Academic Libraries
No full textThis poster was presented at the RIT and UR Library Staff Conference on July 17, 2024. Let's talk about how we can make our libraries more accessible for everyone regardless of ability or disability. In this poster session we'll take a look at some of the most common accessibility problems within academic libraries and how we can use concepts like Universal Design to come up with creative and effective solutions.</p
Sex, Society and Medieval Women
No full textIn the Middle Ages sex was considered, as it is now, to be a normal and natural part of life. Most authorities agreed that it was not inherently sinful because God would not have made such a necessary activity taboo (without sex one cannot have children and fulfill the command to "increase and multiply, and fill the earth" given in Genesis 9:1). Natural though it was, however, sex was also morally fraught because of the pleasure associated with sexual activity. When engaged in for strictly defined right reasons, sex was sinless. However, humanity being fallen as it was, human intent was scarcely ever free of the lust that could taint sex, rendering a natural activity unnatural. Therefore, writers who discussed sex had to walk a very fine line between portraying human nature and human sin. That line was, of course, itself debated, as many writers disagreed on the point at which nature ended and sin began. To further confuse the issue, the Middle Ages had writers who used allegorical and satirical styles of writing (much like some writers and publications in our own time) that could be easily misread, as well as "shock jocks" who thoroughly disagreed with commonly held notions of moral behavior and who did their best to cause controversy with their behavior and writings. The following pages detail some of the more commonly used modes of discussing and depicting sex and sexual behavior from medical to moral to literary.This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Robbins Library website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-01-26.</p
The Crusades and Western Cultural Imagination
No full textThe intent of this project, is to illustrate the medieval origins and cultural implications of the crusades, and the continued references to these religious wars in western imagination.This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Robbins Library website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-01-26.</p
Pre-College Program at Studio X, 2024
No full textEach summer, high school students from across the country come together at the University of Rochester’s Mary Ann Mavrinac Studio X to explore and experiment with XR technologies. This two-week program welcomes participants of all experience levels, guiding them in creating their own VR experiences. Students begin by learning XR fundamentals and brainstorming project ideas, then progress to hands-on practice with tools like Blender and Unity. To support continued learning, we’ve included free, linked resources designed to empower students to build their skills independently.This record includes the following program slide decks:Intro To XR: learn about XR key terms, the history behind the technology, Studio X, and what this project will focus on.Design Thinking: practice the design thinking process to build your experience.Intro to Blender: practice the basics of blender with a challenge and non-player character creation.Intro to Meshes and Materials: make your non-player character models come to life with this step-by-step instruction on materials.Intro to Unity: learn about and how to use Unity and build your environment.Intro to Unity and VR: bring Unity and VR hardware together and add interactions to your experience.Critical Discussion of XR and Digital Literacy: learn about how users interact with XR vis-a-vis empathy and embodiment.Also included are handouts for the workshop's Design Thinking section and all required Unity assets. Please refer to the included readme PDF for instructions on installing the required software.Visit our website for more information.</p
University of Rochester room impulse response dataset
No full textThe dataset includes impulse responses recorded from 14 different rooms. Each room has unique acoustic properties, providing a wide range of RT60, clarity, and EDT values. The recordings are in 48kHz, 32bit, mono WAV files. The dataset is organized by room, with each subfolder containing the impulse responses specific to that room, as well as a general layout of each room and plots of acoustic data.This dataset supports Estimating direction of arrival in reverberant environments for wake-word detection using a single structural vibration sensor, published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 156, Iss. 4, October, 2024.If you plan to download this dataset, we would appreciate it very much if you could fill out the Google form at https://forms.gle/jnuP2dYRK3CPmXQG6. This will help us understand the usage and impacts of this dataset. Your feedback will also help us improve any future extensions of this work.</p
Reading Other People's Mail Essay, John Gardner Essay
No full textStudents in two of Professor Robert Westbrook's courses in American intellectual history, "The American Mind, 1600-1865" (History 267) and "The American Mind, 1865-1990" (History 268), use manuscript materials as part of a research assignment. This assignment, called "Other People's Mail," requires that students transcribe a document and write an introduction to it, placing the document in its context and suggesting the ways in which it bears on significant themes in the course.Please Note: All rights regarding the papers rest with the authors. The images of the manuscripts may not be reproduced without obtaining prior written permission from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-08.</p
COVID-19 Behaviors
No full textCOVID-19 Behaviors DatasetBehavioral analysis of how populations in different countries responded to the pandemic. The data is based on a monthly survey where respondents note counts of various activities along with a 0-100 score related to how much they agree with a given statement. The data was collected by the Imperial College London YouGov Covid 19 Behaviour Tracker Data Hub. Additional information can be found: https://github.com/YouGov-Data/covid-19-tracker.</p