Directory
Richard Marciano
Professor; Faculty Director, Digital Curation for Information Professionals (DCIP) Certificate; Director, Advanced Information Collaboratorymarciano@umd.edu
301-314-0281
4111F Hornbake Bldg, South Wing
https://ai-collaboratory.net/
Dr. Richard Marciano is the recipient of the 2017 Emmett Leahy Award for “outstanding accomplishments that have had a major impact on the records and information management profession.” Throughout his career, Richard has worked in highly interdisciplinary and collaborative environments at the intersection of technology, information, and records management. He has focused on blending disciplines (computer science, archives, and information management) to produce new ways of understanding the past. He was the founder and director of the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) from 2015 to 2020.
In February 2020, Dr. Marciano founded and launched the Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC). The AIC is an international research network (with partners from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia) which explores the opportunities and challenges of disruptive technologies for archives and records management (including CAS – Computational Archival Science, AI, ML, Digital Curation, etc.), while promoting ethical information access and use.
Associated Research Centers
Research & Focus Areas
- Archival Science
- Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization
- Digital Humanities
- Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics
- Library and Information Science
- Machine Learning, AI, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval
Research Projects
- Additive Manufacturing Digital Curation and Data Management
- Computational Thinking to Unlock the Japanese American WWII Camp Experience
- Computational Treatments to re-member the Legacy of Slavery (CT-LoS)
- DAM-Developing a Digital Asset Management System for the Archival Holdings of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
- Developing a Computational Framework for Library and Archival Education
- Developing a Digital Asset Management System for the Archival Holdings of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
- Improving Fedora 4 to Work with Web-Scale Storage and Services
- IRCN-CAS: International Research Collaboration in Computational Archival Science
- Launching the TALENT Network to Promote the Training of Archival & Library Educators w. iNnovative Technologies