Dr. Richard Marciano Receives the Emmett Leahy Award
Maryland iSchool — September 12, 2017
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Jason Baron is the Chair of the Leahy Award Committee, former recipient himself in 2011, former Director of Litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, D.C., former Faculty member at the Maryland iSchool, and currently Of Counsel at Drinker Biddle.
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Jason’s remarks at: https://www.emmettleahyaward.org/2017-richard-marciano.html.
The Emmett Leahy Award annually honors a pioneer in the field of records and information management. The 2017 award recognizes Dr. Richard Marciano’s outstanding and sustained work in digital records and information management. His insightful development of cyberinfrastructure to support records management has resulted in new methodologies, experimental systems, and analytics – producing new knowledge and new ways to understand the past. Dr. Marciano’s work has led to innovative advancements in record keeping for the humanities, sciences, and archives.
Dr. Marciano is a professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, Director of the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC), and Director of the Sustainable Archives and Leveraging Technologies (SALT) lab. Prior to that, he conducted research at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego for over a decade with an affiliation in the Division of Social Sciences in the Urban Studies and Planning program. His research interests center on digital preservation, sustainable archives, cyberinfrastructure, and big data.
Dr. Marciano’s work has led to innovative advancements in record keeping for the humanities, sciences, and archives. We congratulate him in receiving this prestigious and well deserved award.
The award ceremony included the following speakers:
| Welcome | Opening Remarks |
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COMMENTARY
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| Award Presentation | Honoree’s Remarks |
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