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.

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Affiliated faculty members

Christoph Becker

Professor

Costis Dallas

Associate Professor Emeritus

Wendy Duff

Professor

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Fiorella Foscarini

Professor

Alan Galey

Associate Professor

Heather MacNeil

Professor

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Seamus Ross

Professor

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Poster the students created for the Service Design Award competition. It contains details of their project and a photo of three older women.

MI students win global ‘service design’ award

Recent Master of Information grad, Samiha Essakhi, and November ’24 grads, Robyn Carino and Mia Mo, have won the Global Service Design Network Award for their work helping to find innovative solutions for employees seeking to improve health care outcomes in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities aka NORCs. Working under the auspices of the NORC Innovation […]

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MI student celebrates Canadian women in hip hop in upcoming exhibit

Master of Information student Maria Vidal Valdespino took on the role of Portrait Artist and Researcher for an upcoming exhibit. She created digital artwork celebrating women in Canadian hip hop. The Talking Walls exhibit, “Redefining the Cypher: Women in Canadian Hip Hop,” opens on October 14. Maria got involved in the project through Level Up, […]

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DCDI Conference tackles data challenges in humanities and social sciences

Media Release: The Dublin Core Data Institute (DCDI) will hold its inaugural international conference on October 19th, bringing together scholars from the humanities, social sciences and data science to foster collaboration on open data use in research.  As data becomes increasingly integral to the humanities and social sciences, researchers face unique challenges in developing and […]

TALint recipient Adrianna Lewis at her Bachelor of Arts graduation ceremony. She's holding the traditional blanket she received as a gift.

TALint student has big ambitions for Indigenous collections

To achieve her goal of working with Indigenous Peoples, Adrianna Lewis originally planned to become a teacher. But she switched course after a revelatory stint as a student assistant at the library for Queen’s University’s Indigenous Teacher Education Program.  Not only did Lewis enjoy working with Indigenous materials, she also spent a lot of time talking […]

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