Seamus Ross

Seamus Ross is a Professor at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and served as Dean for seven years, from 2009-2015. During 2015 and 2016 he served as Interim Director of The Centre for Culture and Technology. Before joining Toronto, he was a Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation and Founding Director of HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) at the University of Glasgow from 1997-2009.

Professor Ross’s scholarly research has focused on Digital Preservation/Curation digital humanities, Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities), digitization, digital repositories, emulation, digital archaeology, semantic extraction and genre classification, cultural heritage informatics and knowledge representation and reasoning. He also promotes broadening access to scholarship and was instrumental in the creation of the Digiman Animation Series by Digital Preservation Europe.

Professor Ross’s research has been supported by such funding agencies as the European Commission’s funding programs, the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK, Heritage Lottery Fund (UK), and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).