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

Christoph Becker

Professor

Costis Dallas

Associate Professor Emeritus

Wendy Duff

Professor

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Fiorella Foscarini

Professor

Alan Galey

Professor

Heather MacNeil

Professor Emerita

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Seamus Ross

Professor

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Curiosity pays off for BI student

“I’m quite good at finding different information,” laughs Du, who, as a result, has a packed agenda for the fall.   A top item on that agenda is the Centre for Ethics’ Algorithm Bias Project, where Du has been accepted into a program combining practical experience with a year-long seminar examining algorithmic bias in Canada. She […]

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Parchment gets a dental check-up

Faculty of Information PhD student Christina Nguyen is working with researchers from U of T’s Faculty of Dentistry to apply approaches used to study dental tissues to the preservation of historical parchment. Her team, headed up by Dentistry Professor Laurent Bozec, who also holds a cross appointment at the Faculty of Information, reviewed more than […]

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Curating futures exhibition spotlights students’ summer internships

This summer, 28 Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) students completed more than 7,800 hours of work-integrated learning through internships with 23 museums, galleries, archives, cultural organizations and public institutions across Canada. Their placements gave students hands-on experience in areas ranging from collections and archives to exhibitions, visitor experience and public programming. Students gained experience at […]

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‘Not on the Exam’ with Iz Leitch, Student Services Assistant

If you’ve been to the Office of the Registrar and Student Services, chances are you’ve met Iz Leitch and Min Kang, the team behind the front desk. For this back-to-school edition of our regular “Not on the Exam” feature, we’re talking with Iz, whose official title is Student Services Assistant.  How did you come to […]