Marco Seiferle-Valencia

Title

Technical Director, Digital Archivist

Role at CPMR

Lead Archivist, Data Management, Website Design and Development, Grant Development, Course Development and Implementation

About

Marco Seiferle-Valencia is CPMR's Technical Director which encompasses his work as digital archivist, web designer and developer for the CPMR website, and effort to develop custom open-source solutions to support CPMR based pedagogy. Marco started on CPMR in 2012, and developed the overall workflows and processes used to describe and provide access to CPMR's oral histories and digital archival items. He also builds and maintains the CPMR website, as well as co-creating digital assignments and curations. Marco worked in-person on the CPMR Colletive from 2013 to 2016, where he oversaw the work of graduate students and undergraduates working on digitizing and describing records, and assisted Professor Cotera with teaching an innvovative oral history course at the University of Michigan in Fall of 2013.