Seamus Ross

Seamus Ross (November 12, 1957) is a digital humanities and digital curation academic and researcher based in Canada.

Biography

Seamus Ross was born 12 November 1957, the son of James Francis Ross, a philosopher, and Kathleen Fallon Ross, a nurse. After graduating from the William Penn Charter School, he earned his A.B. (1979) from Vassar College (United States), his M.A. (1982) from the University of Pennsylvania (USA), and his D.Phil. (1992) from the University of Oxford (UK).[1]

Seamus Ross is Professor at the iSchool at the University of Toronto, also known as the Faculty of Information and from 2009 through 2015 he served as the School's Dean. During 2016 he is Visiting Professor at the School of Information Sciences and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business (Athens, GR), and Interim Director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Before joining Toronto, he was Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation and Founding Director of HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute)[2] (1997–2009) at the University of Glasgow. He was one of the founders of and served as Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre (2004–9) in the UK,[3] and was Principal Director of ERPANET[4] and Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) and a co-principal investigator such projects as the DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence,[5] Planets[6] and the Digicult Forum.[7] From the beginning of 1990 through 1996, Ross was Assistant Secretary (Information Technology) at the British Academy in London.

Ross's scholarly research has focused on digital humanities, digital preservation, digital curation, digitisation, digital repositories, emulation, digital archaeology, semantic extraction and genre classification, and cultural heritage informatics. See for instance his study of digital archaeology,[8] his examination of digital preservation and archival science,[9] and his introduction to digital preservation, Changing Trains at Wigan.[10] He promotes a diversity in ways of making scholarship available to broader audiences and was instrumental in the creation of the Digiman Series through Digital Preservation Europe, Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation,[11]

Honours

In March 2016, Ross was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters.[12]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/SRoss_OnePage_Biographical_Sketch_0.pdf
  2. ↑ HATII, University of Glasgow, UK.
  3. ↑ Digital Curation Centre, UK.
  4. ↑ ERPANET.
  5. ↑ DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence
  6. ↑ Planets Project.
  7. ↑ Digicult.
  8. ↑ S. Ross and A. Gow, 1999, Digital archaeology? Rescuing Neglected or Damaged Data Resources, (London & Bristol: British Library and Joint Information Systems Committee), ISBN 1-900508-51-6.
  9. ↑ S. Ross, 2007, Digital Preservation, Archival Science and Methodological Foundations for Digital Libraries, Keynote Address at the 11th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Budapest (17 September 2007).
  10. ↑ S, Ross, 2000, Changing Trains at Wigan: Digital Preservation and the Future of Scholarship, National Preservation Office (British Library), Occasional Publication, ISBN 0-7123-4717-8.
  11. ↑ Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation, YouTube.
  12. ↑ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html

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Preceded by
Jens-Erik Mai (Acting)		 Dean of University of Toronto Faculty of Information
2009 – 2015 		Succeeded by
Wendy Duff (Acting)
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