Presented at CONUL Annual Conference, May 2022, Limerick, Ireland

1. Digital Scholarship
Network Ireland
CONUL 25 May 2022
Cillian Joy (NUI Galway)
Arlene Healy (TCD)
Eoin Kilfeather (NLI)

2. Vision and network members
Encourage partnerships and skills
development in CONUL and
GLAM organisations in Ireland

3. Digital Scholarship
Digital scholarship tends to focus on digital products, data and output,
infrastructure, and technology. For Libraries this is mainly in
scholarship capture, storage, dissemination, and meta-activities. Open
scholarship focuses on the practice of research and education in an
open way.
Digitisation, making
digital collections, 3D
prints/modelling
Digital preservation,
technical and
metadata work
Digital publishing,
Digital exhibitions,
and impact
Project, budget, &
supplier management
and planning

4. Process to define DSN-IE work
CONUL
action plan
DSN-IE work
programme
methodology
1) Introduction
and scene
setting
2) Discuss and
gather data
3) New action
plan

5. Methodology example: Strategy

6. Prioristised actions

7. Themes
Skills Partnership Strategy
1) Programme of webinars
2) Skills audit template
3) Checklist of Digital
Scholarship skills
1) Shared national digital
exhibition platform
2) Shared approach to projects
3) Funding opportunities
1) Roadmap for
institutional Digital
Scholarship
2) Communicate value

8. Skills
Skills Audit completed in December 2021
• Establish and publish a list of network expertise
• Identify areas members will support
Purpose

9. DSN-IE skills and needs
Training needs Skills

10. Partnership
Sept 2021
Shared funding
survey & analysis
Nov 2021
Approach to sharing
funding calls
Q4 2022
National shared
exhibition platform
workshop with the
CNCI

11. Strategy

12. What’s next
Complete work of groups
Moving to outcome-based topic workshops

13. Summary
Open to GLAM in Ireland
Focus on partnership, sharing, and skills
What work can we do collectively?

14. Thank you dsn.conul.ie

16. DSN-IE timeline
CONUL Digital
Collections Group focus
on Digital Scholarship
2017
Irish Digital Scholarship
survey
2018
Pre-LIBER workshop
on Digital Scholarship
2019
Compare with ARL,
RLUK, and CONUL
2020
DSN-IE open to
GLAM in Ireland
2021
Complete work of
strategy, skills, and
partnership themes
2022