Research Groups: Institutes, Labs and Centers

Digital Curation Institute

The Digital Curation Institute (DCI) is an interdisciplinary unit at the Faculty of Information. It treats digital curation as a design question, a decision problem, a policy issue, and a concern at the intersection of an array of connected disciplines. Information professionals, researchers, and organizations have a unique opportunity to play crucial, central roles in this complex ecosystem.

Affiliated faculty members

Portrait of Professor Christoph Becker

Christoph Becker

Professor

Costis Dallas

Associate Professor Emeritus

Wendy Duff

Professor

Headshot image of Fiorella Foscarini

Fiorella Foscarini

Professor

Alan Galey

Associate Professor

Heather MacNeil

Professor

Headshot image of Seamus Ross

Seamus Ross

Professor

Recent News

Montage of jazz album covers

Jazz Journeys with Alan Stanbridge

For the vast majority of working jazz musicians, the metaphor of the journey has profoundly real implications. It is perhaps unsurprising then, writes Professor Alan Stanbridge in Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, that the theme of travelling has featured extensively in the history and discourses of jazz, in ways that often blur or conflate the real, the fictional and the metaphorical. These […]

MI students launch ‘Great Enablement’ podcast

ISD students Karl-Yann Assah and Kyle Thomas have launched a new five-episode podcast series as a way to share and discuss valuable knowledge and skills related to student success. “Whether you’re a student, young professional or aspiring entrepreneur, this first episode is packed with practical advice and inspiring stories to help you get one step closer to their goals,” […]

Museum Studies student's mini exhibit on display in Bissell Building

See students’ Curatorial Practice mini-exhibits

Stop by the fifth floor of the Bissell Building to six “personal mini exhibits” put together by Master of Museum Studies students taking the Curatorial Practice course (MSL2000H) taught by Assistant Professor Maggie Hutcheson.    The challenge of the personal mini exhibit is for students to communicate an aspect of their own history, identity, community or lived […]

The co-founders of Hypercare: Umar Azhar, Faculty of Information grad Albert Tai and Dr. Joseph Choi.

Alum Albert Tai’s entrepreneurial journey

Alumnus Albert Tai’s Hypercare startup was featured in the Globe and Mail this week as one of four U of T startups that are solving global challenges with innovative solutions. Tai, who graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2017, launched Hypercare that same year, together with Dr. Joseph Choi, an emergency physician and assistant […]