Presentation given by Órna Roche, Metadata Librarian at UCD Library, University College Dublin, Ireland, to the Periodical Research at UCD Symposium, 30th September 2019.

1. Órna Roche
Metadata Librarian,UCD Digital Library
Periodical Research at UCD Symposium, 30th September, 2019

3. UCD Repositories, digital projects, & individual researchers including…
External collaborations including…

4. • Text:
• periodicals, letters, pamphlets, books,
manuscripts, diaries, etc.
• Still images:
• photographs, postcards, prints, drawings, slides,
etc.
• Cartographic material:
• maps
• Audio visual material:
• poetry readings, music, interviews, podcasts, etc.
• Ephemera:
• theatre programmes, tickets, invitations,etc.
• Datasets:
• LiDAR survey data, bibliographic data
• 3 dimensional objects:
• coins, chalices, sculptures

5. • 1879-1883
• Weekly satirical and literary periodical
• 151 issues (1 issue missing)
• Founded by John Fergus O’Hea and Edwin
Hamilton
• Editor: Edwin Hamilton
• Illustrators include:
• John Fergus O’Hea
• Thomas Fitzpatrick
• Held by National Folklore Collection UCD

6. No. 3 (10 January,1880)

7. Vol. 4 No. 108 (3 February 1883) Vol. 2 No. 40 (15 October 1881)

8. Vol. 2 No. 48 (10 December,1881)Vol. 3 No. 55 (28 January,1882)

9. • 1896-1899
• Literature, poetry, historical articles,and political
commentary
• 40 issues
• Founded by Alice Milligan and Anna Johnston
• Editors:
• Anna Johnston (MacManus)
• Alice Milligan
• Contributors include:
• James Connolly
• Michael Cusack
• Alice Furlong
• Nora Hopper
• Douglas Hyde
• Seumas MacManus
• William Rooney
• Held by National Folklore Collection UCD

10. Vol. III No. 2 (7 February 1898) Vol. III No. 8 (1 August 1898)

11. Vol. III No. 5
(2 May 1898)
Vol. II No. 8
(2 August 1897)

12. • 1901-1906
• University College Dublin magazine for staff and
students
• 24 issues
• Editors:
• Constantine Peter Curran
• Hugh Kennedy
• John Kennedy
• Thomas Kettle
• Felix Hackett
• Francis Cruise O'Brien
• Contributors include:
• James Joyce
• Agnes Winifred O'Farrelly
• Maire Pelly
• Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
• George Sigerson
• Held by UCD Library Special Collections

13. Vol. I No. 6 (May, 1902) Vol. I No. 12 (June, 1903)

14. Vol. I No. 5 (March 1902) Vol. II No. 8 (November 1905)

15. • 1907-1908
• Literary journal for staff and students of
UCD
• 4 issues
• Succeeded St. Stephen’s
• Editor:
• Thomas Bodkin
• Contributors include:
• Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan
• Fr. Peadar Ua Laoghaire (Peter O’Leary)
• Patrick Semple
• Held by UCD Library Special Collections

16. • 1914
• Shipboard newspaper from WW1
• Produced on the troopship HMAT Afric
• Editor:Walter Wade
• Contributions by members of the 1st
battalion Australian Imperial Force
• 23 issues
• Printed on cloth (cotton and silk)
• Held by UCD Library Special Collections

17. • Irish Nursing Journals
• 1925-1971
• Irish Nurses’Union Gazette / Irish Nurses’
Journal / The Irish Nurses’Magazine /Irish
Nurse
• UCD News
• 1970-2003
• UCD staff and students’ newspaper
Coming soon:
• The Lepracaun
• 1905-1915
• Founded by Thomas Fitzpatrick, later owned by
Mary Fitzpatrick O’Brien
• Illustrations by John Fergus O’Hea,Frank
Reynolds,Benjamin Bailey
• Zozimus
• 1870-1872
• Edited by Richard Dowling
• Illustrations by John Fergus O’Hea,Harry
Furniss,Wallis Mackay

18. 1. Profiling
• Decision to digitise:
• conservation/preservation issues
• user demand
• Significant anniversaries
• Assess if any technical issues
• Check if already online
• Identify any gaps in collection
• Research title changes,
preceding/succeeding titles

19. 2. Digital Asset Curation
• Condition issues – fragile paper,
foldouts
• Bound volumes
• Tight bindings
• Missing covers/indexes

20. 3. Cataloguing
• Minimal information available
• Need title and issue level description
• Rely on curators and researchers for
context
• Describe title changes clearly
• Identify contributors where possible!
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21. 4. Copyright
• Identifying copyright holders
• Ensure clear rights and re-use
information for end user
• Creative Commons licences (moving
to Rights Statements)
• We take a pragmatic, risk-based
approach!

22. 5. Ingest
• Main preservation processes
• Optical Character Recognition
6. Quality Review
• Display review
• Functionality testing

23. 7. Publicity
• Internal and external channels
• Social media
• Google Arts & Culture
8. Evaluation
• Evaluate each collection
• Usage statistics

30. web:
digital.ucd.ie
email:
digital.library@ucd.ie
twitter:
@UCDDigital
For further details on our systems, metadata,
standards, & technical infrastructure:
https://digital.ucd.ie/about/