2023 DCIP Cohort Presents Their Capstone Projects

On Thursday, August 10, members of the 2023 Cohort of the Digital Curation for Information Professionals (DCIP) Certificate Program gave presentations about their capstone projects. The DCIP Certificate Program consists of three classes – Introduction to Digital Curation (6 weeks – Instructor: Mark Conrad), Tools and Software for Digital Curation (12 weeks – Instructor: Mark Conrad)… Read More

May 11, 2023 Computational Storytelling Datathon

May 11, 2023: Datathon Showcase – Computational Archival Storytelling with Jupyter Notebooks On May 11, 2023, a public event showcased original and innovative work conducted by MLIS graduate students in the INST742 class (“Implementation of Digital Curation”) at the University of Maryland iSchool. The class (designed to provide hands-on learning experiences to students, with real-world… Read More

Jul. 28, 2022: Launch of the IMLS-funded TALENT Network

TALENT Network Training of Archival & Library Educators with iNnovative Technologies —– Funded by IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Implementation Grant Professors Richard Marciano, Principal Investigator, (University of Maryland Advanced Information Collaboratory – AIC in the College of Information Studies) and Anne Gilliland, Co-PI (University of California, Los Angeles Center for Information as Evidence… Read More

May 5, 2022: Digital Curation Project Showcase

May 5, 2022: Digital Curation Project Showcase Event On May 5, 2022, a public event showcased original and innovative work conducted by MLIS graduate students in the INST742 class (“Implementation of Digital Curation”) at the University of Maryland iSchool. The class (designed to provide hands-on learning experiences to students, with real-world environments and examples that… Read More

Call for Papers for the 7th Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop

7th COMPUTATIONAL ARCHIVAL SCIENCE (CAS) WORKSHOP PART OF: IEEE Big Data 2022 — http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2022/index.html IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Friday Oct 28, 2022 (final): Due date for full workshop papers submission Friday Nov 4, 2022: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Tuesday Nov 15, 2022 (hard deadline): Camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 17-20, 2022: CAS#7 Workshop (exact date To… Read More

UMD Student Project Featured on Japanese Television

Five iSchool undergraduate students (Isaac HERNANDEZ, Akif ZAMAN, Victoria HA, Abel DEMISS, and Logan QIAO), who participated in the INST341 “Introduction to Digital Curation” class taught by professor Richard Marciano, saw their fall 2021 research project featured in the groundbreaking NHK World Japan documentary called: “Dear Mr. Collins – 80 Years Since the Japanese-American Internment”.… Read More

Dec. 9, 2021 Digital Curation Showcase

Digital Curation Showcase Social Justice & Computational Archival Storytelling using Jupyter Notebooks December 9, 2021  Forty-four students from the UMD Undergraduate iSchool Information Science INST341 class “Introduction to Digital Curation,” presented their fall 2021 team projects at a public event showcasing 9 projects, centered around 4 themes: 1.Redlining, 2.Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camps, 3.Urban Renewal,… Read More

Oct. 15, 2021 Online Mini-Summit: Supporting P-20 Educational Goals

Online Mini-Summit : October 15, 2021 — 2:00-4:00PM Educational Possibilities of Computational Archival Science: How can digitized archival collections and computational tools support P-20 educational goals? This online mini-summit will highlight recent progress with funded work in computational archival science from an educator network and a cluster of projects using digitized collections that highlight historical… Read More