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(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “The Future of Memory: Navigating Standards in Audiovisual Preservation”
March 25, 2025 | INFO StaffFeaturing Jimi Jones, Ph.D., scholar and researcher specializing in audiovisual preservation, digital archiving, and media technologies
This 1900 image of the Carlisle Indian School football team includes one of Assistant Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner's ancestors. She said this and the photo of her great-great-great grandmother Joaquina Nahwilet (image at bottom) is a rare example of good photo metadata; improving the tools in archival research is a primary goal of the new Indigenous archives project she's co-leading. Photo by John N. Choate/Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Maryland Today: UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
February 4, 2025 | Laurie Robinson & Jessica WeissProject co-led by INFO and ARHU will develop tools, standards, and reparative practices to restore indigenous histories
(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Centering Community and Care in Rapid Response Research”
December 18, 2024 | INFO StaffFeaturing Anna Kijas, Assistant Director of Digital Scholarship, Head of the Lilly Music Library, Tufts University
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AICollaboratory Launches HERITAGE–AI Initiative with Major Grant
December 11, 2024 | Laurie RobinsonThis IMLS-funded project aims to revolutionize how users engage with library and archival collections
American Libraries Magazine: Serving New Neighbors (by Ana Ndumu)
November 25, 2024 | Ana NdumuResources for embracing immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers
(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Community Archives: Empowering Voices and Preserving Heritage”
November 21, 2024 | INFO StaffCorey Lewis discusses the impact of community archives in preserving cultural heritage and empowering underrepresented voices
Casilda Luna, second from right, in conversation with a group in Washington, DC's Columbia Heights neighborhood, ca. 1970s. (Photo from Black Mosaic Exhibition Records, Anacostia Community Museum)
Our Black Mosaic Podcast: A Love Letter to Afro-Latine Youth
November 7, 2024 | Manuel Duran MendezUMD INFO PhD student Manuel Mendez chronicles Black Latine lived experience in the DC area
Boxes of documents fill a room of the National Archives in College Park. A UMD researcher and colleagues plan to use AI to begin getting a handle on billions of undigitized documents so retrieval is easier. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Maryland Today: The National Archives Has Over 10B Undigitized Pages (ft. Doug Oard, Diana Marsh, and Katrina Fenlon)
October 22, 2024 | Maryland Today Staff | UMDThese UMD experts are working to make finding records easier