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Faculty Position: Digital Curation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Posted November 10, 2015

The School of Information at the University of Michigan (UMSI) seeks to hire a tenure-track professor at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank who conducts research in the multidisciplinary field of digital curation. Broadly construed, digital curation research includes digital curation technologies and methods, representation and interpretation of heterogeneous digital content and collections, integrity and user acceptance, interoperability, and long-term sustainability.

We favor candidates with strong interest and expertise in:

  • Methods to assess and improve the quality of data that originate from formal and informal sources, such as research data, social media trace data, and citizen science
  • Models and methods to extract and trace data provenance, and correspondingly, methods to use provenance in analysis, quality assessment, and reasoning about, linking, and retrieving data
  • Incentives for data sharing and models for reuse of digital data
  • Ontologies and models (general and domain-specific) that make it possible to conceptualize, act, and reason about data in a more atomic and structured fashion
  • Policy, algorithmic, organizational, and practice-based methods to mitigate privacy and security problems with digital data

For all UMSI positions, we favor candidates whose research interests complement our existing expertise in such areas as computer-supported cooperative work; digital archives and preservation; human-computer interaction; incentive-centered design and information economics; information seeking, sharing and use; Internet-scale data, network and text analysis; social computing and informatics; and health informatics. This new faculty position provides the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of the University’s recently announced $100M investment in data science (http://midas.umich.edu).

The mission of the School of Information is to create and share knowledge to help people use information — with technology — to build a better world. A successful candidate will be committed to, and will directly contribute to our goal of being the best research and teaching institution for the understanding and design of information and its technologies in service of people and society.

The School is home to vibrant research and teaching programs, with 40 FTE professors, and over 600 students.  We offer four degrees: a Ph.D., a Master of Science in Information, a Master of Health Informatics (joint with the School of Public Health), and a Bachelor of Science in Information.

Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation’s top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual general fund budget of more than $1.7 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.6 billion.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in an area such as information science, archival science, computer science, informatics or fields related to digital curation including social science
  • Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels
  • Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact
  • A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, and cultural diversity

Background Screening

The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks.  Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2015 and continue until the positions are filled.

For more information or for application instructions, please visit http://apply.interfolio.com/32067.

For questions about potential fit and your application please contact Dr. Carl Lagoze at [email protected].

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