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Lucas Rosendall

◆ research ◆ data ◆ theory

A recent masters of science graduate in The School of Information at the University of Michigan where I studied Libraries, Archives, and Knowledge Environments in Society with concentration in programming and data analysis.

I graduated undergrad at The University of Michigan with a degree in english literature. I have kept heavy interest in the literary and the poetic, especially as jumping off points into thinking through how data and computational methods shape contemporary culture. My interests in this space involves new media and visual culture studies, web histories, cultural AI, digital theory, memory, time, and media aesthetics.

My research at the moment is broadly motivated and underpinned by questions about the nature of information, the production of knowledge, and how those two sites may bump up against the archive, but more specifically, how machine learning practices will affect epistemic outputs, particularly from the standpoint of research and repository services, but also education more broadly.

Recent

April 2026 Presented work on the ontological and taxonomic Development of metadata within The National Neighborhood Data Archives (NaNDA), which is available here.
April 2026 Newer Report detailing short-term and long-term preservation stretegies for The Detroit Future Cities Archive.
April 2026 The Negative Library of Other Networks: Permacomputing & The Cozy Web systematizes web archiving workflows from the perpective of permacomputing and low-tech methodologies. For more details visit the projects page.
April 2026 Improving NaNDA's Discoverability Selected for a Democracy and Civic Empowerment award at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) Student Project Exposition.

Selected Writings

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