Experiences of the Digital Repository of Ireland Kathryn Cassidy Digital Repository of Ireland (Trinity College Dublin) https://www.dri.ie/

Digital Repository of Ireland DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities and Social Sciences Data in Ireland, launched June 2015 Provides preservation and access to digital collections Born digital and digitised collections including maps, photographs, letters, audio-visual, sound, books, oral histories, paintings..

What is a TDR? “A trusted digital repository is one whose mission is to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and in the future.” Research Libraries Group & Online Computer Library Centre 2002 report “Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities”

What is a TDR? “A trusted digital repository is one whose mission is to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and in the future.” Research Libraries Group & Online Computer Library Centre 2002 report “Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities”

What is a TDR? “A trusted digital repository is one whose mission is to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and in the future.” Research Libraries Group & Online Computer Library Centre 2002 report “Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities”

Ceph Storage System Moab Versioning File packaging schema for the Archive Information Packages (AIPs) Open-Source tools Samvera (Hydra) Solr Fedora

DOI:10.7486/DRI.qr474f68n

Digital Assets Total Files: 2.77TB

Metadata Standards Total Objects: 297,841

Access tools Web-renderable surrogates webm/mp4 from AVI jpg/png from Tiff etc. Timeline tool Mapping Viewers for different data types Incorporating linked data sources to enrich the data

Policy http://www.dri.ie/publications

Policy drivers As a greenfield site we were able to develop our repository from the start in line with best practice including Data Seal of Approval DSA (now CoreTrustSeal) Trusted Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist TRAC ISO 16363 Responses available online

Data Seal of Approval / CoreTrustSeal Lightweight peer-reviewed self-assessment Extremely useful process to identify gaps in your organisation or system Technical, policy & documentation, legal Responses available online

Publications http://www.dri.ie/publications Best practice guides Fact sheets Reports Academic papers Conference presentation slides Videos Promotional materials ... http://www.dri.ie/publications

Training & Community Engagement

But is it FAIR*? Findable Accessible Interoperable Re-usable Does/Can a TDR provide FAIR data management? * DOI:10.1038/sdata.2016.18

The TDR as part of your RDM infrastructure Findable DOI Searchable index Rich descriptive metadata Accessible Even with access restrictions, users must be able to find that the data exists Open metadata Landing page if data is removed Standard protocols and methods to access / download metadata & data

The TDR as part of your RDM infrastructure Interoperable Use widely supported metadata and data standards, vocabularies, etc. Re-usable Data published with enough information for reuse contextual information format information etc. Rights and licencing information available Information on data provenance easily available

The DRI as an RDM infrastructure Findable DOI ✔ Searchable index ✔ Rich descriptive metadata ✔ Accessible Even with access restrictions, users must be able to find that the data exists Open metadata ✔ Landing page if data is removed ✔ Standard protocols and methods to access / download metadata & data ✔ Interoperable Use widely supported metadata and data standards, vocabularies, etc. ✔ Re-usable Data published with enough information for reuse contextual information ✔ format information ✔ etc. Rights and licencing information available ✔ Information on data provenance easily available ✔

The DRI by itself is not an RDM infrastructure! :) Most of our data is image-based, little specific support for complex data types, e.g. tabular data, databases, quantitative data, GIS Is it FAIR if all I can find is a zipfile for download, but I can’t search within that file? How do I search on a per-row level within tabular data? What tools are provided for interacting with quantitative data? How can I cite a particular versioned subset of data resources? What data formats should we support and what do we mean by support? support should mean visualisation or interactive tools, not just download What’s involved in Research Data Management??? esp in relation to TDRs workflows - getting data in and out preservation of changing data citation of changing data Formats to support and what do we mean by support? e.g. GIS, DBs, applications????

Future Directions Moving more into the RDM space adding more complex research data types investigating possible surrogate views of complex data, and tools for interacting with data recently hired a Research Data Manager (@gmcmahon) who will focus on this pilot project with the Irish Digital Arts & Humanities PhD I hope that we can report many interesting results in a year’s time!

Contact http://www.dri.ie/ @DRI_ireland kcassidy@tchpc.tcd.ie @angrybunnie