<div dir="ltr">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span>College
Park, Md</span></b><span>.
– On April 26-28, the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the
University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool) convened a
Symposium in collaboration with King’s College London. This invitation-only
symposium, entitled <i>Finding New Knowledge: Archival Records in the Age of
Big Data, </i>featured 52 participants from the UK, Canada, South Africa and
the U.S. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Among the participants
were researchers, students, and representatives from federal agencies, cultural
institutions, and consortia.</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">This distinguished group of experts gathered at
Maryland&#39;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.</span><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">See attached or visit the <a href="http://ischool.umd.edu/news/digital-curation-innovation-center-hosts-computational-archival-science-symposium">iSchool website</a> for more about the symposium and future plans to continue this work.</span></font><br></p></div>