Seamus Ross (born November 12, 1957) is a

digital humanities Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or Information technology, digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanitie ...

and

digital curation Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes, maintains and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use. This is often accomplished ...

academic and researcher based in Canada. He is the son of

James Francis Ross James Francis Ross (October 9, 1931 – July 12, 2010) was an American philosopher. James Ross, a creative thinker in philosophy of religion, law, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, was a member of the Philosophy Department at the University of ...

, a philosopher, and Kathleen Fallon Ross, a nurse. After graduating from the

William Penn Charter School William Penn Charter School (commonly known as Penn Charter or simply PC) is an independent school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1689 at the urging of William Penn as the "Public Grammar School" and chartered in 1689 to be op ...

, he earned his A.B. (1979) from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely foll ...

(United States), his M.A. (1982) from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

(USA), and his D.Phil. (1992) from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

( UK). Seamus Ross is Professor at the iSchool at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, also known as the Faculty of Information and from 2009 through 2015 he served as the School's Dean. During 2016, he is Visiting Professor at the School of Information Sciences and Technology,

Athens University of Economics and Business Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB; el, Οικονομικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Oikonomiko Panepistimio Athinon'', abbrev. ΟΠΑ, OPA) was founded in 1920 in Athens, Greece and is the oldest university in G ...

(Athens, GR), and Interim Director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Before joining Toronto, he was Professor of Humanities Informatics and

Digital Curation Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes, maintains and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use. This is often accomplished ...

and Founding Director of

HATII The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) was a research and teaching institute at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. It was established in 1997 with Professor Seamus Ross as Founding Director until 2009. HATII led ...

(Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) (1997–2009) at the

University of Glasgow , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ...

. He was one of the founders of and served as Associate Director of the

Digital Curation Centre The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was established to help solve the extensive challenges of digital preservation and digital curation and to lead research, development, advice, and support services for higher education institutions in the Unite ...

(2004–9) in the UK, and was Principal Director of ERPANET and

Digital Preservation Europe The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europea ...

(DPE) and a co-principal investigator such projects as the DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence, Planets and the Digicult Forum. From the beginning of 1990 through 1996, Ross was Assistant Secretary (Information Technology) at the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars s ...

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

. Ross's scholarly research has focused on

digital preservation In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable. It involves planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods and ...

, digitisation, digital repositories, emulation,

digital archaeology Digital archaeology is the application of information technology and digital media to archaeology. It includes the use of digital photography, 3D reconstruction, virtual reality, and geographical information systems, among other techniques. Comput ...

, semantic extraction and genre classification, and

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by soc ...

informatics. See for instance his study of digital archaeology, his examination of

and

archival science Archival science, or archival studies, is the study and theory of building and curating archives, which are collections of documents, recordings and data storage devices. To build and curate an archive, one must acquire and evaluate recorded ...

, and his introduction to digital preservation, ''Changing Trains at Wigan''. He promotes a diversity in ways of making scholarship available to broader audiences and was instrumental in the creation of the Digiman Series through

, Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation,

Honours

In March 2016, Ross was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

, Scotland's national academy of science and letters.

References

Select bibliography

*Y. Kim and S.Ross
‘The Naming of Cats: Automated Genre Classification’
The International Journal of Digital Curation Vol 2 No 1, 2007, *A McHugh, S Ross, R Ruusaleep & H Hofman
'The Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA)’
2007. (256 pages) *S Ross, 2006, ‘Approaching Digital Preservation Holistically’, in A Tough and M Moss (eds.), Information Management and Preservation, (Oxford: Chandos Press) *L Candela, D Castelli, Y Ioannidis, G Koutrika, P Pagano, S Ross, H-J Schek, H Schuldt, 2006, The Digital Library Manifesto, DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries, () *Y Kim and S Ross, Genre Classification in Automated Ingest and Appraisal Metadata, J. Gonzalo et al. (eds.): ECDL 2006, LNCS 4172, 63–74, 2006. *S Ross and A McHugh, 2006

''D-Lib Magazine'', July/August, v.12, n7/8 *S Ross and M Hedstrom, 2005
‘Preservation Research and Sustainable Digital Libraries’
''International Journal of Digital Libraries'', Vol 5.4, 317-325. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1007/s00799-004-0099-3, . *C Rusbridge, P Burnhill, S Ross, P Buneman, D Giaretta, L Lyon, M Atkinson, 2005
‘The Digital Curation Centre: A Vision for Digital Curation’
In ''Proceedings IEEE’s Mass Storage and Systems Technology Committee Conference on From Local to Global: Data Interoperability—Challenges and Technologies''. *S Ross, M Donnelly, M Dobreva, D Abbott, A McHugh and A Rusbridge, 2005, ''Core Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector'', DigiCULT Technology Watch Report 3, European Commission, , 296 pages. *S Ross, 2004, ‘The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in Europe’, ''DLIB'' (July/August) vol 10.7/8

. *S Ross, 2004, ‘Reflections on the Impact of the Lund Principles on European Approaches to Digitisation’ in ''Strategies for a European Area of Digital Cultural Resources: Towards a Continuum of Digital Heritage'', (Den Haag), 88-98. *S Ross, M Greenan, and P McKinney, 2004, ‘Digital Preservation Strategies: The Initial Outcomes of the ERPANET Case Studies’ in the ''Preservation of Electronic Records: New Knowledge and Decision-making'', (Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute), 99-114. *J Esanu, J Davidson, S Ross, and W Anderson, 2004, ‘Selection, Appraisal, and Retention of Digital Scientific Data: Highlights of an ERPANET/CODATA Workshop’, ''Data Science Journal'', 3, 30 December 200

*S. Ross, 2004. ‘ERPANET, A European Platform for Enabling Digital Preservation,’ ''Vine: The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management'', 34.2 (issue 135), 77-83. *S Ross, M Donnelly, & M Dobreva, 2004, ''New Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector'', DigiCULT Technology Watch Report 2, European Commission, . 214 pages. *S Ross and M Hedstrom 2003, Invest to Save: Report and Recommendations of the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation,

*S Ross 2003, ''Digital Library Development Review'', National Library of New Zealand, (Wellington), .

88 pages. *S Ross, 2003, ‘Position Paper: Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources’, ''Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources'', Thematic Issue 3, 7-11. . *S Ross, M Donnelly, & M Dobreva, 2003, ''New Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector'', DigiCULT Technology Watch Report 1, European Commission, , 194 pages. *S Ross 2002, ‘Cyberculture, cultural asset management and ethnohistory’, ''Archivi & Computer'', XII.1, 43-60.

External links

Seamus Ross webpage at the University of Toronto iSchoolFull text of doctoral thesis, "Dress pins from Anglo-Saxon England"
via Oxford Research Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Seamus 1957 births Living people Vassar College alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford University of Toronto faculty Humanities academics People in digital humanities Canadian academic administrators