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Biography

Seamus Ross was born 12 November 1957, the son of James Francis Ross

James Francis Ross

James Francis Ross 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 Pennsylvania from 1962 until his death...

, a philosopher, and Kathleen Fallon Ross, a nurse. After graduating from the William Penn Charter School

William Penn Charter School

William Penn Charter School is an independent school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1689 by William Penn...

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

Vassar College

Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...

, his M.A. (1982) from the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

, and his D.Phil.(1992) from the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

.

Seamus Ross is Dean and Professor, the iSchool

ISchool

An information school, I-School or iSchool is an emergent label of university departments or independent institutions committed to understanding the role of information in nature and human endeavors...

at Toronto, also known as the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. Before joining Toronto he was Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation and Founding Director of HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) (1997–2009) at the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

. He served as Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre

Digital Curation Centre

- Purpose :The Digital Curation Centre 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 United Kingdom...

(2004-9) in the UK, and was Principal Director of ERPANET and Digital Preservation Europe

Digital Preservation Europe

DigitalPreservationEurope is a European Union research project aimed at digital preservation coordination and dissemination activities within Europe. It was founded by the Sixth Framework Programme . DPE ranks among EU "Digital Libraries" priority called "i2010".DPE together with CASPAR and...

(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 he was Assistant Secretary (Information Technology) at British Academy

British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...

(London).

His scholarly research has focused on digital humanities, digital preservation, digitisation, digital repositories, emulation, digital archaeology, semantic extraction and genre classification, and cultural heritage informatics. See for instance his study of digital archaeology, his examination of digital preservation and archival science, and his introduction to digital preservation, Changing Trains at Wigan. He promotes a diversity in ways of making scholarship available to broaer audiences and was instrumental in the creation of the Digiman Series through Digital Preservation Europe

Digital Preservation Europe

, Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation,

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, ISSN: 1746-8256
A McHugh, S Ross, R Ruusaleep & H Hofman, 'The Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA)’. 2007. ISBN 978-1-906242-00-8 (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, (ISBN 2-912335-24-8)
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, ‘The Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories’, 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, ISSN 14325012.
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, ISBN 92-894-5277-3, 296 pages.
S Ross, 2004, ‘The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in Europe’, DLIB (July/August) vol 10.7/8, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/ross/07ross.html, ISSN 1082-9873.
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 2004 http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/codata/journal/contents/3_04/3_04pdfs/DS390.pdf
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, ISBN 92-894-5276-5. 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, http://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/activities/internationalforum/Joint-WGs/digitalarchiving/Digitalarchiving.pdf
S Ross 2003, Digital Library Development Review, National Library of New Zealand, (Wellington), ISBN 0-477-02797-0. http://www.natlib.govt.nz/files/ross_report.pdf, 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. ISBN 3-902448-00-8.
S Ross, M Donnelly, & M Dobreva, 2003, New Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector, DigiCULT Technology Watch Report 1, European Commission, ISBN 92-894-5275-7, 194 pages.
S Ross 2002, ‘Cyberculture, cultural asset management and ethnohistory’, Archivi & Computer, XII.1, 43-60.

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