Jan. 12-16, 2018: Symposium on CAS at Kyushu U. Japan

Symposium on Computational Archival Science at Kyushu University, Japan (Jan. 12-16, 2018)

Computational Archival                     [Records Management]                          Science

Richard Marciano (UMD iSchool) and Maria Esteva (UMD iSchool Affiliate Professor and Data Archivist at the Texas Advanced Computing Center), were invited to visit Kyushu University (January 12-16, 2018) and conducted several seminars with faculty of the Department of Library Science.

Special thanks to our amazing hosts at Kyushu University: Yoichi Tomiura (Deputy Director General of University Libraries and Professor in Department of Library Science, Department of Informatics, and Research and Education Center of Mathematics and Data Science), and Emi Ishita (Associate Professor Dept. of Library Science)

Talks included:

1. “Articulating Computational Archival Science (CAS): Background, Current State, and Professional and Educational Implications” (Marciano, Esteva)
2. “The Scope of Computational Archival Science (CAS): Methods, Resources and Interdisciplinary Approaches” (Marciano, Esteva)
3. ”World War II Japanese-American Internment Camp Project” (Marciano)
4. “Anatomy of Big Archives Visualization” (Esteva).