Dr. Luciana Duranti

Dr. Luciana Duranti

Professor Emerita of archival science and diplomatics in the School of Information of the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, and Affiliate Full Professor in the School of Information at the University of Washington at Seattle, United States

Dr. Luciana Duranti, a graduate of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, is Professor Emerita of archival science and diplomatics in the School of Information of the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, and Affiliate Full Professor in the School of Information at the University of Washington at Seattle, United States. She started her career as State Archivist of Rome in 1978. In 1982, she became a Professor Researcher of Archival Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, until she moved to UBC in 1987 to teach in the newly minted Master of Archival Studies.

Professor Duranti is Director of the UBC Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives, and the Principal Investigator of the InterPARES research project, which, since 1998, has developed theory and methods for the creation, maintenance and preservation of trustworthy digital records across technologies. She has published extensively on archival and diplomatics theory and on the use of their concepts for understanding the products of new technologies.

She has been the President of the Society of American Archivists and of the Association of Canadian Archivists. Since 2015, she is the Chair of the Canadian Government Standards Board committee for Electronic Records as Documentary Evidence.