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.
Richard Marciano
Richard Marciano
Professor and Director, Digital Curation Innovation Center
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4110C 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 distinguished Emmett Leahy Award for pioneering work in the field of records and information management. Dr. Marciano leads the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the UMD iSchool and is Director of the Digital Curation for Information Professionals (DCIP) certificate program. His work focuses on the development of innovative methodologies, experimental systems, and analytics, to produce new knowledge and new ways to understand the past.
Current Research Interests:
- Digital preservation
- Archives and records management
- Digital curation
- Electronic records
- Digital humanities
- Spatial informatics
- Big data
- Cyberinfrastructure
Education:
- PhD, University of Iowa
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:
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, Mary Anne Kendig, 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.
Brown Dog
Principal Investigator: Richard Marciano Kenton McHenry (Principal Investigator)
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The information age has made it trivial for anyone to create and then share vast amounts of digital data. This includes unstructured collections made of data such as images, video, and audio to collections of born digital content made up of data such as documents and spreadsheets.
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.