Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC)

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The Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC), founded in Feb. 2020 by UMD Professor Dr. Richard Marciano with 9 other collaborators, is an international research network that brings together over 70 students, researchers, and partners from around the globe to:

• EXPLORE the opportunities and challenges of “disruptive technologies” for archives and records management (digital curation, machine learning, AI, etc.).
• LEVERAGE the latest technologies to unlock the hidden information in massive stores of records.
• PURSUE multidisciplinary collaborations to share relevant knowledge across domains.
• TRAIN current and future generations of information professionals to think computationally and rapidly adapt new technologies to meet their increasingly large and complex workloads.
• PROMOTE ethical information access and use.

The AIC’s projects at UMD as of 2025 fall into three broad categories::

1. Computational Archival Science training ($2M from IMLS)
2. Digital Asset Management development ($14M from NSF, ARL, NPS)
3. Social Justice & Community Engagement partnerships ($3M from IMLS, Kurtz Foundation)

Projects in the 3rd category relate to Long-Term Archival Research (LTAR) and support student participation and hands-on learning. They include:

AIC Founders

Dr. Richard Marciano, Mark Conrad, Dr. Eirini Goudarouli, Dr. Jane Greenberg, Dr. Mark Hedges, Greg Jansen, Dr. Michael Kurtz, Dr. Victoria Lemieux, Dr. William Underwood, Dr. Lyneise Williams

AIC Network Members

Visit the AIC website to learn more about the students, alumni, and partners from around the globe that make up the groundbreaking AIC research network. Below are featured faculty and PhD students from the University of Maryland College of Information (INFO).

In Memory Of

In memory of Michael J. Kurtz (1949 – 2022), who was grounded in the core principles of archives and their social value, as well as a visionary who saw the potential of computational technologies in the future of archival work.