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[Commlist] Digital curation fellowship: University of Toronto
Sun Feb 23 20:18:43 GMT 2020
Call for Applications: 2020-2021 Fellowship at the Digital Curation
Institute
*The Digital Curation Institute (DCI) *at the Faculty of Information at
the University of Toronto is an interdisciplinary research unit uniting
leading researchers in digital curation in a broad, inclusive
perspective on the field, with the aim to provide a vibrant space of
investigation, exchange and discussion (http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca
<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/>).
*The DCI is **calling for applications*
<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2020/02/16/call-for-applications-2020-2021-fellowship-at-the-digital-curation-institute/> for
a one-year funded Fellowship in the broader area of sustainability and
curation. Applications are due *by March 31, 2020 *(see below).
*For this Fellowship*, we are seeking a curious individual who pursues
creative friction and synergies across disciplinary boundaries,
especially those between the humanities, social sciences, natural
sciences and engineering, design, computing and technology.
*Sustainability *– the capacity to endure – has become a crucial concern
of our data-intensive society. It needs to be addressed jointly across
multiple disciplines and perspectives around information, computing,
technology and society. A very abstract concept at first, sustainability
brings central questions in our information society to the fore. It
urges us to take a longer-term perspective on the entanglement of
social, cultural, and technical questions in systems design and strive
to simultaneously advance environmental, social, economic, individual,
and technical goals. These perspectives don’t emerge from incremental
technical progress.
The term “digital sustainability” aims to scope this fellowship in an
intentionally broad sense that unites key concerns of interest for the
DCI and offers connections to many disciplinary perspectives. The
capacity of digital resources to endure is a key focus of digital
curation activities. At the same time, sustainability has become a
central challenge in the design
<http://sustainabilitydesign.org/karlskrona-manifesto/>of information
systems and software-intensive systems in general, where it draws our
attention to the capacity of communities, socio-technical systems,
processes, or ecosystems to endure. Further challenges to the
sustainability and resilience of digital resources emerge from the
proliferation and growing importance of non-custodial, often
community-based curation practices using online platforms, open content
information infrastructures, DIY, open source and off-the-shelf
technologies and tools.
*Curation *activities in turn are crucial for data-intensive research,
in particular, historical or longitudinal inquiry, but also for future
practices related to social justice, collective memory and identity.
For example, they are central to the environmental sciences and equally
at the heart of understanding social and economic sustainability. Yet
actual, empirically or historically attested curation practices,
involving multiple “actors” such as archivists, data managers,
researchers, creatives and communities, and connected with active
contexts of knowledge work, data management, memory and meaning-making,
are only partially researched and understood. In tandem, well-curated,
usable, understandable data are essential
<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/?page_id=135>in exploring our place in
the universe, sustaining humanity and the environment, promoting and
improving public health, engaging cultural values, enabling future
technologies, preserving past and future cultural heritage, and
advancing prosperity – key challenges emphasized in the Strategic
Research Plan of the University of Toronto.
*The Fellowship *is awarded on a yearly basis. It can be offered to an
academic faculty member (at any level), adjunct instructor, industry
professional, graduate student, or postdoctoral fellow. Each of the
categories is given equal consideration. Only one Fellowship will be
awarded each year.
*What do Fellows gain from being a fellow? *
* *Funding: *A stipend of* $10.000 CAD*.
* *Community: *The Fellow will be integrated into the intellectual
life at the DCI and the Faculty of Information. As part of this, the
Fellow will be given the opportunity to be significantly involved
with the organization of the funded lecture series at the DCI, which
brings leading international guest speakers to Toronto.
* *Support network: *Embedding into the social and intellectual fabric
of UofT, the Faculty of Information, the Digital Curation Institute,
and partnering institutes such as the McLuhan Centre for Culture and
Technology provides a unique support network within a vibrant and
growing intellectual environment
* *State-of-the-art facilities: *The Fellow will have full access to
the new lab for data-intensive approaches to digital curation with
cutting-edge collaboration, visualization and data-intensive
computing technology. The lab is located in the newly redesigned
Inforum at the iSchool.
* *A platform* for discourse, community and visibility through the
involvement in the organization of the lecture series and the
opportunity to hold lectures and workshops at the DCI and the
Faculty of Information.
* *Recognition: *The fellowship is awarded annually through a
competitive process, and announced and promoted publicly.
*What kind of research project should the fellow conduct?*
In the spirit of the trans-disciplinary nature of sustainability, there
is no restriction on the type of research or approach followed.
Applications and proposals from a broad range of backgrounds and focus
areas are welcome. However, we expect that the Fellow’s proposed
research project will demonstrate direct relevance to some of the
following topical areas:
* the role of curation in data-intensive research
* systems thinking and sustainability
* digital archiving
* digital preservation
* digital curation in contexts of difficult cultural heritage, social
justice, identity and memory work
* digital curation of social, participatory and networked media
* digital curation in the context of information studies and archival
theory
* curation practices
* curation, remix and creativity
* digital resilience
* the nature of digital, computational objects, and their capacity to
endure
* performance and digital curation
* annotation and digital curation
* data curation in the humanities
* concerns of sustainability in the design of sociotechnical systems
* born-digital data and objects as future cultural heritage
* Machine Learning and appraisal
* the social, economic, environmental, technical and individual
sustainability of digital curation
* the social, economic, environmental, technical and individual
sustainability of ICT systems
* sustainability design (see www.sustainabilitydesign.org
<http://www.sustainabilitydesign.org/>)
* conflicts between short-term goals and long-term concerns in
sociotechnical systems
* long-term thinking within the design of information and
communication technologies
* the sustainability of social communities, institutional practices
and “cultures” of curation
* critical aspects of digital curation and sustainability that go
beyond standard definitions
If you are interested in the fellowship and are unsure whether your
interests align with the research conducted at the DCI, please contact
the DCI Director, Prof. Costis Dallas ((costis.dallas /at/ utoronto.ca)
<mailto:(costis.dallas /at/ utoronto.ca)>).
*Selection* *process*: All applications must be sent to
(costis.dallas /at/ utoronto.ca) with the subject “Application to DCI
fellowship” and should contain (1) A CV, (2) A brief research proposal
(2 single-spaced pages plus references), and (3) Two reference letters,
sent under separate cover by the writers. All applications will be
reviewed by the Director of the DCI and two additional faculty members
at the iSchool.* Applications are due by March 31, 2020*. Applicants
will be notified in April 2020.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its
community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority
group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities,
members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the
further diversification of ideas.
*Detailed terms*
This is the fifth year of the 7-year Fellowship program initially called
the McLuhan Centenary Fellowship at the Digital Curation Institute. The
Fellowship has been held by Prof. Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo
(see the announcement <http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/?p=1271>), Dr.
Maria Angela Ferrario, Lecturer in Digital Technology and Environmental
Change at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster
University, UK (announcement <https://wp.me/p6lxwc-oh>), and Dr Yunyuong
Kim, Lecturer in Information Studies at the School of Humanities,
University of Glasgow, UK (announcement
<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2020/02/16/2019-20-dci-fellow-dr-yunhyong-kim-university-of-glasgow/>).
*Period*: The fellowship period runs from 1 July to 30 June each year.
In this round, the fellowship starts in July 2020.
*Naming*: The fellowship is called:
* “the Fellowship at the Digital Curation Institute” at the Faculty of
Information at the University of Toronto , if held by a professional
or an academic
* “the Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Digital Curation Institute” at
the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, if held by
a post-doctoral fellow, or
* “the Graduate Fellowship at the Digital Curation Institute” at the
Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto., if held by a
graduate student.
*Expectations*: During the period of the Fellowship, the fellow will be
expected to
* Give one lecture and/or workshop at the Digital Curation Institute,
* Acknowledge the Fellowship in research output (including
presentations, publications, software, data, standards and other
intellectual property) resulting from this period,
* Be present on site at the Digital Curation Institute for an agreed
period during the fellowship period (a minimum of three months is
expected),
* Take part in the organization of a lecture or workshop as part of
the DCI lecture series,
* Contribute to the intellectual life of the DCI and the Faculty of
Information, and
* Submit an activity plan at the start of the Fellowship and an
activity report at the end.
*Timing *and arrangements will be mutually coordinated between the
Fellow and the DCI Director, Prof. Costis Dallas
((costis.dallas /at/ utoronto.ca) <mailto:(costis.dallas /at/ utoronto.ca)>).
This Call for Applications is also avaliable as a PDF file
<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/DCI-Fellowship-2020-21-Call-for-Applications.pdf>.
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