Sharon Webb and Rebecca Grant: Introduction to the DRI Decade of Centenaries Digital Preservation Award
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The Digital Repository of Ireland opened a call for expressions of interest from organizations holding heritage materials related to Ireland's Decade of Centenaries to have their collections digitally preserved. They selected winning applicants and provided archiving services to ingest the digital content into the repository for long-term preservation. The collections preserved included 1915 Dublin City electoral lists held by Dublin City Archives and materials on the Capuchins and the Irish Revolution held by the Irish Capuchin Provincial Archives.
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Sharon Webb and Rebecca Grant: Introduction to the DRI Decade of Centenaries Digital Preservation Award
- 1. DRI Decade of Centenaries Digital Preservation Award 25 June 2015 Dr. Sharon Webb and Rebecca Grant
- 2. 22 December 2014 - The Call To coincide with the national programme of events the Digital Repository of Ireland opened a call for expressions of interest from custodians of heritage material relating to the Decade of Centenaries who wish to digitally preserve their holdings.
- 3. Motivation We believe that digital heritage is at risk of destruction and loss if action is not taken. Digital decay is the gradual decay of digital content - lost data that cannot be accessed because computers no longer understand the legacy formats or are un-readable.
- 4. The Plan! To select collections from Irish organisations that related specifically to the call. To provide the services of DRI digital archivists to the winning applicants and ingest content into the Repository for long-term preservation. Preservation Workshop
- 5. Acknowledgments DRI Digital Archivists – Dolores Grant and Kate McCarthy DRIS and Joanne Carroll Strand 3, especially Dr. Agustina Martinez Garcia and Charlene McGoohan
- 6. Irish Research Council New Foundations Award: Strand 2 “Marking the National Decade of Centenaries” to “to support activities designed specifically to contribute to the Decade of Centenaries Programme”
- 8. Dublin City Archives - 1915 Dublin City Electoral Lists
- 9. The Irish Capuchin Provincial Archives – The Capuchins and the Irish Revolution
- 10. National Irish Visual Arts Library, NCAD – The Michael Healy Collection
- 11. DRI Preservation Award Continues…. Digitisation Equipment: Copy Stand, Camera & Lens, Laptop, Software, and various accessories.
- 12. Structure of the day and achievements Introduction to DRI Deposit or Ingest System Guided Ingest Hands on workshop
Editor's Notes
- Outline of the call: The Digital Repository of Ireland believes that digital heritage is at risk of destruction and loss if action is not taken. Digital decay is the gradual decay of digital content - lost data that cannot be accessed because computers no longer understand the legacy formats. The solution is digital preservation – active ongoing data management, including changing formats, standards, and software. The ‘Decade of Centenaries’ marks a significant period in modern Irish history and provides an important juncture for both national reflection and commemoration. It, as an exercise in public history and national, cultural memory, seeks to (re)engage and educate the general public through events, exhibitions, both online and physical, public lectures, etc., on pivotal and sometimes contentious Irish moments that shape our current understandings of the Irish political, social and economic sphere within the national and international context. To coincide with this programme of events the Digital Repository of Ireland has opened a call for expressions of interest from custodians of heritage material relating to the Decade of Centenaries who wish to digitally preserve their holdings. We will engage with winning contributors to provide best practice guidance and digital preservation services for these collections. The collection will also be launched at DRI’s Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities (DPASSH) conference in June 2015. The winning application will receive the services of a digital archivist to undertake tasks that may include: metadata creation and standardisation, assessment of file formats, deposit of collections in DRI for digital preservation, possibly digitisation of collections.
- Similar to DPASSH motivation, which compared the 1922 fire at the public records office, we wanted to highlight the fragility of digital content that was being produced and dissimated for the decade of centuries. We wanted to highlight that while we may commemorate or celebrate an important Irish historical period, it is also necessary to consider how these commemorations are preserved for the future, given that how we interpret and the objects or ephemera we create and highlight will in themselves become part of the historical record. We want to be able to reflect on how the centary was commemorated when it’s the bicentary! Also, draw attention to the various online projects, raise awareness of how they will be preserved e.g. 1916 letters project, Inspiring Ireland! Many of the decade of centaries projects “digitise” content form the period, but how will that same content be preserved Highlight issues, generate a register and colloate information on presevation issues which projects, archives were dealing with.
- Similar to DPASSH motivation, which compared the 1922 fire at the public records office, we wanted to highlight the fragility of digital content that was being produced and dissimated for the decade of centuries. We wanted to highlight that while we may commemorate or celebrate an important Irish historical period, it is also necessary to consider how these commemorations are preserved for the future, given that how we interpret and the objects or ephemera we create and highlight will in themselves become part of the historical record. We want to be able to reflect on how the centary was commemorated when it’s the bicentary! Also, draw attention to the various online projects, raise awareness of how they will be preserved e.g. 1916 letters project, Inspiring Ireland! Many of the decade of centaries projects “digitise” content form the period, but how will that same content be preserved Highlight issues, generate a register and colloate information on presevation issues which projects, archives were dealing with.
- Similar to DPASSH motivation, which compared the 1922 fire at the public records office, we wanted to highlight the fragility of digital content that was being produced and dissimated for the decade of centuries. We wanted to highlight that while we may commemorate or celebrate an important Irish historical period, it is also necessary to consider how these commemorations are preserved for the future, given that how we interpret and the objects or ephemera we create and highlight will in themselves become part of the historical record. We want to be able to reflect on how the centary was commemorated when it’s the bicentary! Also, draw attention to the various online projects, raise awareness of how they will be preserved e.g. 1916 letters project, Inspiring Ireland! Many of the decade of centaries projects “digitise” content form the period, but how will that same content be preserved Highlight issues, generate a register and colloate information on presevation issues which projects, archives were dealing with.
- Similar to DPASSH motivation, which compared the 1922 fire at the public records office, we wanted to highlight the fragility of digital content that was being produced and dissimated for the decade of centuries. We wanted to highlight that while we may commemorate or celebrate an important Irish historical period, it is also necessary to consider how these commemorations are preserved for the future, given that how we interpret and the objects or ephemera we create and highlight will in themselves become part of the historical record. We want to be able to reflect on how the centary was commemorated when it’s the bicentary! Also, draw attention to the various online projects, raise awareness of how they will be preserved e.g. 1916 letters project, Inspiring Ireland! Many of the decade of centaries projects “digitise” content form the period, but how will that same content be preserved Highlight issues, generate a register and colloate information on presevation issues which projects, archives were dealing with.