On April 26-28, the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool) convened a Symposium entitled Finding New Knowledge: Archival Records in the Age of Big Data, featured 52 participants from the UK, Canada, South Africa and the U.S. Among the participants were researchers, students, and representatives from federal agencies, cultural institutions, and consortia.
This distinguished group of invitation-only experts gathered at Maryland’s iSchool to discuss and define computational archival science: an interdisciplinary field concerned with the application of computational methods and resources to large-scale records/archives processing, analysis, storage, long-term preservation, and access, with the aim of improving efficiency, productivity and precision in support of appraisal, arrangement and description, preservation and access decisions, and engaging and undertaking research with archival material.See attached or visit the University of Maryland iSchool website for more about the symposium.
As part of future plans to continue work on computational archival science, Dr. Lemieux will serve as a program committee member for an upcoming IEEE Big Data Workshop on Computational Archival Science. For more information about the upcoming workshop, visit the IEEE Big Data website.
