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CAFe members and volunteers at the 2023 Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon (Photo Credit: Sarah Grun)
UMD Center for Archival Futures (CAFe) is Shaping Archives and Preservation
CAFe aims to create access to cultural memory at previously unprecedented scales

(Video) Search Mastery: Maps, Models, and Metrics for Influence in Conflict Zones
Featuring INFO assistant professor Cody Buntain

ARLIS: UMD Researchers Measure Social Media Sharing with Emotions (ft. Susannah Paletz)
4,000+ Facebook posts were analyzed to determine the ability of different emotion models to predict post sharing.

(Video) Founders of Popular Crowdsourcing Transcription Software FromThePage Speak at CAFe Speaker Series
Sara Brumfield and Ben Brumfield talk about AI’s impact on archives at the recent INFO event

Recent Study Finds People with Dementia Use Changing Information Behaviors when Seeking Health Information
INFO Assistant Professor Amanda Lazar and a team of researchers studied how people with dementia search for health information after di …

As touchscreens proliferate in daily life, from coffee shops to airports, people who are blind or visually impaired are often unable to access important digital information. UMD researchers have developed a new robot that could help bridge the gap
Photo by iStock; Toucha11y photo courtesy of Jiasheng Li.
Maryland Today: An Ally for Access (ft. Huaishu Peng)
Palm-sized Robot Navigates Touchscreens for Visually Impaired Users

News Release: Research Team Wins $1.5M NSF Grant to Leverage Machine Learning to Assess Mathematics Lesson Plan Quality in the Middle Grades
Dr. Wei Ai of the UMD INFO College is a co-PI on this groundbreaking project