Please excuse cross-posting. From the University of Maryland press release:

September 12, 2017

The Emmett Leahy Award annually honors a pioneer in the field of records
and information management. The 2017 award recognizes Dr. Richard
Marciano’s outstanding and sustained work in digital records and
information management. His insightful development of cyberinfrastructure
to support records management has resulted in new methodologies,
experimental systems, and analytics - producing new knowledge and new ways
to understand the past. Dr. Marciano’s work has led to innovative
advancements in record keeping for the humanities, sciences, and archives.

Dr. Marciano (pictured right) is seen receiving the Emmett Leahy Award
plaque from Jason R. Baron (pictured left). Jason Baron is the Chair of the
Leahy Award Committee, former recipient himself in 2011, former Director of
Litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in
Washington, D.C., and currently Of Counsel at Drinker Biddle.

Dr. Marciano is a professor in the College of Information Studies at the
University of Maryland, Director of the Digital Curation Innovation Center
(DCIC), and Director of the Sustainable Archives and Leveraging
Technologies (SALT) lab.  Prior to that, he conducted research at the San
Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego
for over a decade with an affiliation in the Division of Social Sciences in
the Urban Studies and Planning program.  His research interests center on
digital preservation, sustainable archives, cyberinfrastructure, and big
data.

Dr. Marciano’s work has led to innovative advancements in record keeping
for the humanities, sciences, and archives. We congratulate him in
receiving this prestigious and well deserved award.

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