Dr. Luciana Duranti

Biography

Luciana Duranti has been involved in the archival field since 1973 and is currently an Affiliate Professor in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia since 1987. She teaches courses in diplomatics, records appraisal, selection and acquisition, preservation of digital records at the master’s level, and advanced archival theory at the doctoral level. Duranti supervises master’s and doctoral students in the completion of theses, directed study, and research projects, with students participating as Graduate Research Assistants in research projects she directs, contributing as a co-investigator. In addition to teaching, she is actively involved in numerous scholarly, professional, and knowledge dissemination activities, participating in national and international conferences and committees, delivering public talks and events for non-specialized audiences, as well as invited lectures at universities. Her publications span areas of archival science and the history of diplomatics. In 1998, she became the Director of InterPARES, a multinational, multidisciplinary research project focused on the long-term preservation of authentic electronic records.

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