The Speakers
Anthea Seles, Ph.D
Secretary General/Secrétaire générale
International Council on Archives/Conseil International des Archives
Dr Anthea Seles holds a doctorate from University College London (2016), a Masters degree in Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia (2003) and an honors undergraduate degree in Art History from Queen’s University (2001).
As ICA Secretary General, she is the senior staff member in the Secretariat, responsible for the line management of all ICA’s paid staff. She co-ordinates the work of ICA officers and bodies on the organization’s major initiatives and manages its relations with external partners. Prior to joining the ICA, Dr Seles worked as the Interim Director of Digital Selection and Transfer at the National Archives UK, where is was responsible for overseeing digital records transfers coming from government departments to the National Archives.
During her time there she worked with colleagues to test out machine learning applications to help automate the appraisal, selection and sensitivity review process, she was also responsible for implementing TNA’s first digital records transfer process. She also worked with the International Records Management Trust (2010-2013) on topics such as digital data integrity for development and the importance of records management for accountability and transparency initiatives. Dr Seles has lectured extensively at a number of international conferences on topics ranging from artificial intelligence, digital preservation and records management for accountability and transparency
Richard Marciano, Ph.D
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
Dr. Richard Marciano is the recipient of the 2017 Emmett Leahy Award for "outstanding accomplishments that have had a major impact on the records and information management profession." Throughout his career, Richard has worked in interdisciplinary and highly collaborative environments at the intersection of technology, information, and records management. He has focused on blending disciplines (computer science, archives, and information management), to produce new ways of understanding the past. He was the founder and director of the UMD iSchool Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) from 2015 to 2020.
On Feb. 28, 2020, Dr. Marciano founded and launched the Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC). The AIC is an international community network of partners interested in fostering Computational Archival Science (CAS) research and exploring the opportunities and challenges of disruptive technologies for archives and records management, while promoting ethical information access and use.
Jane Greenberg, Ph.D
Information Science
Drexel University
Dr. Jane Greenberg is the Alice B. Kroeger Professor and Director of the Metadata Research Center (http://cci.drexel.edu/mrc/) at the College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University. Her research activities focus on metadata, knowledge organization/semantics, linked data, data science, and information economics. She serves on the advisory board of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and the steering committee for the NSF Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDIH). She is a principal investigator (PI) on the NSF Spoke initiative, 'A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing,' and the lead PI the Metadata Capital Initiative (MetaDataCAPT'L) and the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) linked data project.
She is also a co-PI for Drexel's NSF Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (NSF-I/UCRC), Center for Visualization and Decision Informatics (CVDI). Her research has been funded by the NSF, NIH, IMLS, Microsoft Research, National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, among other organizational and private sponsors. She has received numerous awards and honors for her research and leadership; most recently she was recognized as a 2016 ELATE at Drexel® Fellow and in 2014, and a Data Science Fellow at the National Consortium for Data Science, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Jacqueline Joslyn
College of Social & Behavioral Science
University of Arizona
Jacqueline Joslyn is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation develops a conceptual tool for modeling and analyzing relational processes. The preliminary results of her work were presented at the 2018 Junior Theorists Symposium. She worked as a research assistant to Corey Abramson in an ethnographic study of terminally ill cancer patients. She co-authored a paper on computational sociology in Ethnography. Ms. Joslyn has a historical analysis on organizational divisiveness in the Stone-Campbell movement currently under review. Previously, she has published papers on economic development and social capital.