Biography
Papenfuse has held the positions of Maryland State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents since 1975. As director of the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, Papenfuse is responsible for the Archives' collection of government and private materials which are described and inventoried in detail at mdsa.net, Guide to Government Records and the Guide Special Collections. In 2003 he conceptualized and initiated the design of mdlandrec.net, which now contains over 190,000,000 indexed images of permanent archival records and is accessed daily by several thousand users. In addition he has created an interactive editorial website for archival documents which currently accesses over 500,000 pages of original source material on the experimental web site, editonline.us. Since June 2010, he has also been the acting City Archivist for the Baltimore City Archives, becoming a catalyst for change in an archives in disrepair.
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