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

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

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Seamus Ross

Professor

Recent News

Zooming in with Alumni-Taj-Rae Oliver

Zooming in with alumni: Taj-Rae Oliver

Taj-Rae Oliver is a 2023 grad in the Faculty’s newest concentration, Human-Centred Data Science (HCDS). She now works in one of today’s most exciting, constantly changing and fast-paced fields as an analyst on an AI Policy team at Public Services and Procurement Canada.  What originally inspired you to pursue your degree in information? After undergrad, […]

THE 2025 IAN P. SHARP LECTURE

Announcing the 2025 I.P. Sharp Lecture

As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in our lives, urgent questions arise about whose knowledge systems shape its design and whose are excluded. The Faculty of Information’s 2025 Ian P. Sharp Lecture will bring together two distinguished speakers to explore how AI can be shaped with respect, relationality, and responsibility, rooted in Indigenous ethical frameworks.

Cover of CJC issue edited by Leslie Shade

Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy 

Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy is the theme for two issues of the Canadian Journal of Communication’s Policy Portal, edited by Professor Leslie Regan Shade of the Faculty of Information and Tamara Shepherd of the University of Calgary. The first issue, which has just been published, focuses on Intersectional Critiques of AI Governance  and includes contributions from Faculty […]

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