Advanced Information Collaboratory
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
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
May 6, 2021: Datathon Showcase – Computational Archival Storytelling with Jupyter Notebooks The Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC) was pleased to sponsor a public event showcasing some of the work conducted by MLIS graduate students in the INST742 class (“Implementation of Digital Curation”) at the University of Maryland. The class concluded with a 2-week datathon focused… Read More
Launch of the AIC “FARM” Initiative Future of Archives and Records Management (FARM) Oct. 5, 2020 The AIC is proud to launch a new AI / ML / CAS Initiative which will explore the Future of Archives and Records Management (FARM) through recently funded “seed” Grants and Collaborations. The AIC, initially launched in Feb. 2020… Read More
The Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC) was well represented at ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2020 – the Virtual Joint Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Council of State Archivists (CoSA). AIC Founder, Dr. Richard Marciano, and Co-Founders, Dr. Lyneise Williams and Mark Conrad gave presentations in the session entitled, Erasure and the… Read More
AIC Research Fellows, Phillip Nicholas and Alexis Hill gave a presentation at the SAA Research Forum entitled “Establishing a Research Agenda for Computational Archival Science through Interdisciplinary Collaborations between Archivists and Technologists”. This was part of ARCHIVES * 2020 – the Virtual Joint Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Council… Read More
Co–hosted by Oklahoma State University Emerging Technologies & Creativity Research Lab, and led by postdoctoral fellows Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture & Azure Stewart, New York University. See: https://sites.google.com/view/emergtechbigdatarchives/project-home Featuring 200 attendees from over 30 countries. Left to Right starting at the Top: Sonia PASCUA (Drexel U.) — Richard MARCIANO… Read More
The AHRC-funded UK-US Partnerships hosted a final Symposium at the The Alan Turing Institute at the British Library on January 20, 2020. The UK-US Network King’s College London’s Department of Digital Humanities, together with the University of Maryland iSchool (US), the Maryland State Archives (US), and The National Archives (UK), concluded their 1-year Research Networking award for UK-US Collaborations in… Read More
Announcing the UCLA Computational Archival Science (CAS) Unconference Thursday morning, December 12, 2019 Room 111, GSE&IS Building, UCLA Department of Information Studies 300 Charles E. Young Dr. N. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520Featuring 9 short talks and a discussions on “New Directions in Computation and Archives”. The Unconference is hosted by the UCLA Department of Information… Read More
ARCHIVAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2019, July 11, 2019 in Liverpool, UK Developing a Computational Curriculum Framework for Archival Education Facilitators: Jenny Bunn (UCL/UK), Mark Hedges (KCL/UK) and Richard Marciano (UMD/US) This half-day curriculum development workshop acted as a forum for sharing emerging practice and developing curricula for what has recently been labelled Computational Archival… Read More
