A. Project Goals
Richard Marciano
Richard Marciano
Professor
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4113F Hornbake Bldg, South Wing
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(301) 314-0281
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(301) 314-9145
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 interdisciplinary and highly 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 UMD iSchool Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) from 2015 to 2020.
On Feb. 28, 2020, Dr. Marciano founded and launched the Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC). The AIC is an international community network of partners interested in fostering Computational Archival Science (CAS) research and exploring the opportunities and challenges of disruptive technologies for archives and records management, while promoting ethical information access and use.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Digital curation
- Data Management
- Archives and records management
- Spatial informatics
- Big data
- Cyberinfrastructure
EDUCATION
- Postdoc in Computational Geography, University of Iowa
- PhD & Master's in Computer Science, University of Iowa
- BS in Avionics and Electrical Engineering, National School of Civil Aviation
Developing a Digital Asset Management System for the Archival Holdings of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Principal Investigator: Richard Marciano
Investigator: Greg Jansen
CHS: Large: Collaborative Research: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
Principal Investigator: Katie Shilton, Jessica Vitak, Richard Marciano, Greg Jansen
Investigator:
The increasing scope and scale of pervasive data about people has enabled fundamentally new computational research. Simultaneously, changes in scale, scope, speed, and depth of data availability require reconsideration of the ethical calculus for computational research.
Developing a Digital Asset Management System for the Archival Holdings of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Principal Investigator: Richard Marciano
Investigator:
A $364K partnership with the National Park Service (NPS) to create a cutting-edge Digital Asset Management System to preserve and manage the digital assets of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site.
WIN: a Window Into Neuroregulation
Principal Investigator: Richard Marciano, Greg Jansen Andrea Chiba (Principal Investigator)
Investigator:
Joanna Christodoulou, Jay Giedd, & Todd Coleman
The pace of our digital-era society and the circumstances in which people live are diverse and can produce expectations and situations requiring children to be extremely flexible and resilient.
IRCN-CAS: International Research Collaboration in Computational Archival Science
Principal Investigator: Richard Marciano
Investigator:
King's College London
The National Archives (UK)
Maryland State Archives
King’s College London’s Department of Digital Humanities, together with the University of Maryland iSchool Digital Curation Innovation Center (US), the Maryland State Archives (US), and The National Archives (UK), were awarded a 1-year International Research Networking grant for UK-US Collaborati
Developing a Computational Framework for Library and Archival Education
Principal Investigator: Richard Marciano
Investigator: Adam Kriesberg, David Weintrop, Greg Jansen, Katrina Fenlon, Philip Piety, Will Thomas, William Underwood
Michael Kurtz
UMD held a workshop to create the building blocks of a Master's level educational curriculum to educate the next generation of librarians and archivists in the computational treatments of collections.
Improving Fedora 4 to Work with Web-Scale Storage and Services
Principal Investigator: Richard Marciano
Investigator: Greg Jansen
The Digital Curation Innovation Center plans to improve the performance and scalability of the Fedora Repository for the Fedora community by researching, developing, and testing software architectures.