Overview of the Digital Repository of Ireland presented to the DRI Stakeholders Advisory Group on 14 April 2015 by Dr Sandra Collins, Director of the DRI.

1. Dr Sandra Collins
Director, Digital Repository of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy

2. Digital Repository of Ireland
DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities
and Social Sciences Data
- preserving, linking and sharing Irish data online
- Our Cultural & Social Heritage

3. 1. Digital Preservation
2. Data Archiving
3. Content Discovery and Publication
4. Training, Guidelines
…at a national level for the Humanities
and Social Sciences…
DRI Core Services

4. 3 years completed in a 4 year programme
From scratch to known for:
• Digital preservation infrastructure
• Archiving & metadata
• Access & Rights
• HSS content & context
Current DRI team of 40 with past colleagues of 18
International & National Advisory & Management
Boards
Where are we now

5. Multi-disciplinary team:
software engineers,
designers, social
scientists, humanities,
archivists, librarians,
policy, Irish language,
education & outreach,
legal, programme
management

6. Stakeholder
Advisory Group
International
Advisory Group
Management
Board
Core
Implementation
Team
Management,
Operations Infrastructure Rollout
Policy,
Requirements
DRI Structure
Demonstrators,
E&O

7. Metadata
Guidelines
Workflows
IP & Copyright
Data Protection
DRI Task Forces
Sustainability
Models
TDR – Trusted
Digital
Repository
Irish Language

9. Dr. Jane Gray, IQDA
Changing life patterns in Ireland, 1900s to present
Life Stories
"My mother used to make a ball and we used to play ball, she
used to make a hurl out of a bit of a board and make the
handle a bit thin and you could catch it, no shape or make it
only a bit of a board. And she used to make a ball out of a
soft set of turf and put an old sock around it"

10. DRI Presentation
Arlene Healy, TCD Library
Stained Glass Windows
Business records, ephemera
Harry Clarke 1889 to 1931

11. Dr. Una Walker, NIVAL
Photographic archive
Kilkenny Design Workshops

12. Prof. Susan Schreibman, MU
Public Humanities: letter collection & transcription
Letters of 1916

13. Dr. Seathrún Ó Tuairisg, NUIG
RTÉ RnG: 40 years broadcast history
Folklore gathering, béaloideas
Irish Language

14. Social
Repository
Inspiring
Ireland
Insight
DRIIRL
Dúchas,
Motif RolloutDAH
DRI core at the heart
of a suite of research
programmes
Linked
Logainm

15. © Insight 2014. All Rights Reserved
Insight
Centre for Data Analytics
reating a data driven society

16. RTÉ Content Discovery Project
Launches June 2015
Multiple
collections:
richer
stories
Multiple
collections:
richer
stories

17. CMC LINE-UP
Linked Irish NEw mUsic Platform
Business Process
Modelling Notation
(BPMN)

19. Collaboration with National Library
Thesaurus Construction
Dúchas: National Folklore Collection
UCD NFC and DCU Fiontar
MoTIF & Dúchas

20. DAH: Expanding DRI’s remit & community
What services can we offer for HSS research data?
What research data & outputs are students generating?
Publicly funded research - where does research data go?
Educational aspect to digital preservation

21. Inspiring-ireland.ie

22. DRI Guides

23. 1. National Steering Committee on Open Access Policy
2. Committee for Open Government Data - DPER
3. National Consultation Panel for Cultural Heritage and
Global Change – Heritage Council
4. National Advisory Group on Film Heritage – DAHG
5. EU Expert Advisory Group Research Infrastructures
6. EU Expert Advisory Group ‘Science with & for Society’
7. ALLEA (All European Academies) International E-
Humanities Working Group
8. EU Future Internet Forum Member State representative
DRI contributions to Policy

24. Our International
Networks

25. Major International Conferences (300+)
Realising Opportunities of Digital Humanities Oct 2012
European Data Forum April 2013
EU Researchers Night 2013
Research Data Alliance Plenary March 2014
D-PASSH 2015
Hands-On Training, Symposia…
Europeana Hack4Europe– First Place prize 2012
Open Access to Humanities Data Symposium, DPC events
Getting Started in Digital Preservation Workshop, Hydracamp Workshop
Metadata cleaning Workshop, Linked Data for Librarians Workshop
Medical Humanities Symposium , DAH Institute 2014
Finalist – International Digital Preservation Awards 2014
Winner of 3 Irish eGovernment Awards 2015
Training and Outreach for our Community

26. Title
Text
National Advisory Group: Steering &
feedback from national stakeholders
International Advisory Group:
Reviewing for international
best practice

27. dpassh.dri.ie
Work Continues…
DRI launches at
DPASSH 2015