2. CAS Presentations:

2018:

• Future Technologies Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 29-30, 2018, “Blockchain and Distributed ledger as Trusted Recordkeeping Systems: An Archival Theoretic Evaluation Framework” (Victoria Lemieux presenter).

• Society American Archives (SAA2018) Annual Conference Panel:Washington, D.C., Aug. 18, 2018
  • “Promoting Transparency in the Legacy of Slavery: Turning Data into People in Maryland’s Slave Records”, Chris Haley, Ryan Cox, Maya Davis, Michael Kurtz. See: https://archives2018.sched.com/event/ESms/708-promoting-transparency-in-the-legacy-of-slavery-turning-data-into-people-in-marylands-slave-records

• Plenary Session at ACA2018: Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference on Truths, Trust, and Technology, Edmonton, AB, Canada, June 7, 2018
  • “New Modalities of Archival Exploration”
    Speakers: Mark Hedges, KCL; Richard Marciano, UMD; and Ian Milligan, U. Waterloo
    Description: The last several years have seen archival fonds emerge as “big” data corpora. This process of “data-fication” of the archives has given rise to new modalities of archival exploration using data science techniques, such as data mining, feature extraction, machine-learning based clustering and classification, and network analytics. The speakers of this panel discuss their experience with new methods of archival exploration and some of the associated theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges for archivists and researchers alike.

• iConference 2018: Sheffield, UK. Paper accepted [Myeong Lee et al.], “Toward Identifying Values and Tensions in Designing a Historically-Sensitive Data Platform: A Case-Study on Urban Renewal”

• International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC18): Barcelona, Spain, February 19, 2018-paper accepted: “Building Open-Source Digital Curation Services and Repositories at Scale”. See: http://dcic.umd.edu/computational_archival_science_at_idcc2018_in_barcelona/

2017:

•  Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security Risk Management 7 Privacy, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 24-26 (VL presenter).
  • Blockchain Security: An Overview

• Mid-Atlantic Region Archivists Conference (MARAC) Buffalo, October 26-27-
  • IRP2 panel (Michael Kurtz et al)

• • Launch of the Maryland State Archives & UMD iSchool’s “Legacy of Slavery Program Collaboration” Buffalo, October 9, 2017
    • Michael Kurtz et al, at the MSA in Annapolis

• Summer 2017 Blockathon University of British Columbia: August 3, 2017
  • UBC’s “Blockathon” for Social Good Research, Vicki Lemieux. Open to local and global community members, focused on applying decentralized protocols to improve real-world research processes. See: http://blockchainubc.ca/2017/05/30/blockathon/

• Old Line State Summit, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD: July 12, 2017
  • “Eastport Historical Survey”, Invited talk on computational partnerships for cultural heritage
    The Old Line State Summit is Maryland’s annual preservation conference bringing together professionals, advocates, and communities to share and explore best practices for protecting Maryland history and heritage. See: http://www.preservationmaryland.org/old-line-state-summit-partnership-for-action-learning-sustainability/

• • Digital Curation and the Local Community: Collaborating for Social Good workshop, UMD: Apr. 28, 2017
    • A day-long DCIC-sponsored workshop on the impacts of displacement and disparity in housing, transportation, health, and food equality, with a focus on digital curation collaborations with local community organizations. See: https://ischool.umd.edu/news/digital-curation-innovation-center-dcic-hosts-workshop-impact-displacement-disparity and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUKcNcJvOik
    • “The Historical Impact of Urban Renewal on the Displacement of Local Communities: The Human Face of Big Data”, Invited talk

• ISGC2017 (International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2017), Academia Sinica, Tapei Taiwan: March 8, 2017
  • “The Emergence of Computational Archival Science (CAS)”, Closing keynote

• • IMLS “Always Already Computational” project, UC Santa Barbara: Mar. 2, 2017
    • A three-day workshop on using library collections as data
    • “On the Computational Turn in Libraries and Archives”, Invited talk and position paper

• Maryland State Archives (MSA): Jun. 15, 2017
  • Joint planning on developing computational treatments for the Legacy of Slavery archives

2016:

• CNI Fall 2016 (Center for Networked Information), Washington, D.C.: Dec. 13, 2016
  • “DRAS-TIC Measures: Digital Repository at Scale that Invites Computation (To Improve Collections)”, Talk

• MARAC 2016 (Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference), Annapolis, MD: Nov. 4, 2016
  • “Practical Digital Curation Skills for Archivists in the 21st Century”,Invited talk

• Digital Preservation 2016, Milwaukee, WI: Nov. 10, 2016
  • “Designing Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Metadata Extraction in Billion-Object Archives”, Talk & paper

• iPres 2016 (13th International Conference on Digital Preservation), Bern, SWI: Oct. 4, 2016
  • “Designing Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Metadata Extraction in Billion-Record Archives”, Talk & paper

• SAA 2016 (Society of American Archivists annual conference) – Top voted-in pop-up session, Atlanta, GA: Aug. 5, 2016
  • “Archival Records in the Age of Big Data”, SAA Member selected session

• NAGARA 2016 (National Association of Government Archives & Records Administrators annual conf.), Lansing, MI: Jul. 15, 2016
  • “New Developments in Electronic Records”, Invited session

• LOC Saving the Web 2016 (Library of Congress), Washington D.C.: Jun. 16, 2016
  • “Preserving the Web in the Age of Big Data”, Invited talk

• Archiving 2016, Washington D.C.: Apr. 21, 2016
  • “Revealing Hidden Archival Patterns”, Talk & paper