Dr. Natalie Harrower Manager, Education and Outreach Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy Building the Digital Repository of Ireland, building a digital community OR2013 | July | Charlottetown, PEI

What is the Digital Repository of Ireland? DRI Presentation DRI is an interactive, national trusted digital repository for contemporary and historical, social and cultural data held by Irish institutions

Vision DRI Presentation DRI links and preserves the rich data held by Irish institutions, providing a central internet access point, and multimedia tools

DRI Presentation Irish government funded (HEA) Royal Irish Academy (lead), National University of Ireland Maynooth, National University of Ireland Galway, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, National College of Art and Design Partners: academic, cultural, social, government Sep 2011 – Sep Initial grant 5.2M Funding currently extended out to 2019 Funding/Consortium

DRI Presentation Preservation (TDR, Data Seal of Approval) Access (use) Sharing, linking, user tools (reuse) Cultural & Social heritage Services

DRI Presentation Building the Repository through community engagement National Engagement International Engagement Open Source Software Partnerships & Training

DRI Presentation National Engagement International Engagement Open Source Software Partnerships & Training

Consultation: Interviews with content holders DRI Presentation Qualitative interviews 40 content-holding institutions - current approaches to digital data builds engagement, community, trust Launch of National Report in Oct 2012: Digital Archiving in Ireland: National Survey of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Interviewees An Foras Feasa Clare County Library Crawford Gallery Digital Enterprise Research Institute Digital Humanities Observatory Discovery Programme Dublin City Archives Dublin City University Economic and Social Affairs Institute Health Research Board Hunt Museum, Limerick Irish Architectural Archive Irish Film Institute Irish Manuscript Commission Irish Museum of Modern Art Irish Qualitative Data Archive Irish Traditional Music Archive National Archives of Ireland Natl Centre for Tech. in Education National Folklore Collection National Irish Visual Arts Library National Gallery of Ireland National Library of Ireland National Museum of Ireland NUI Galway NUI Maynooth Oral History Network of Ireland Raidió na Gaeltachta Royal Irish Academy RTÉ Trinity College Dublin University College Cork University College Dublin University of Limerick

Formats

Metadata

Thesauri/Vocab/Ontologies

Database / Where do you keep records?

Digital Asset Management Systems 38% of institutions interviewed had own repositories

DRI Presentation Qualitative Interviews with content holders Stakeholder Advisory Committee National Steering Committee on Open Access INSIGHT CENTRE (70 million ICT) Demonstrator Projects National Engagement (cont.)

DRI Presentation Demonstrator Projects Test ingest, metadata, reliability, scalability, flexibility Pilot Analytical and Visualisation Tools Enhance Trust with other stakeholders

DRI Presentation Prof Chris Morash & Dr John Keating, NUIM Demonstrator: Media Envelope THE MEDIA ENVELOPE M on T ue W ed T hu Fr i S at 01 January January 1973 S un GENRE: ALL GENRES GENRE: ALL GENRES SOURCE TYPE: All Sources SOURCE TYPE: All Sources 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18: R.T.E. (Radio Telefís Éireann) Radio Éireann The Irish Press SEARCH FACILITY The Kerryman --- USER LOGIN // PERSONALISATION Sesame Street. Ireland in the EEC --- Ol. Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion Three-o-One: The Sound of... Nua.. LANGUAGE: All Languages LANGUAGE: All Languages Tógha.. The Good.. The Y. Ne ws Music on th.. ß Tragedy Hits Holiday Group T ue W ed ThuThuThuThu Fr i S at 01 January January 1973 S un MonMonMonMon Martin McGuinness held at Bridewell Coombe Hospital wins the baby race Official IRA adm... The Connacht Tribune 5 Accused of Misleading Villagers T ue W ed ThuThuThuThu January January 1973 S un M on Fr i Roads Row Victory for Connemara Hurling Star Drowned while Oyster Dredging S at IVERNIA in London Nora one of the first in Europe

DRI Presentation THE MEDIA ENVELOPE Mo n Tu e W ed Th u Fri Sa t 01 January January 1973 Su n GENRE: ALL GENRES GENRE: ALL GENRES SOURCE TYPE: All Sources SOURCE TYPE: All Sources 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18: R.T.E. (Radio Telefís Éireann) Radio Éireann SEARCH FACILITY The Kerryman --- USER LOGIN // PERSONALISATION Sesame Street. Ireland in the EEC --- Ol. Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion Three-o-One: The Sound of... Nua.. LANGUAGE: All Languages LANGUAGE: All Languages Tógha.. The Good.. The Y. Ne ws Music on th.. ß Tragedy Hits Holiday Group Tu e W ed Th u Fri Sa t 01 January January 1973 Su n Mo n Martin McGuinness held at Bridewell Coombe Hospital wins the baby race Official IRA adm... The Connacht Tribune 5 Accused of Misleading Villagers Tu e W ed Th u January January 1973 Su n Mo n Fri Roads Row Victory for Connemara Hurling Star Drowned while Oyster Dredging Sa t IVERNIA in London Nora one of the first in Europe The Irish Press

DRI Presentation THE MEDIA ENVELOPE Mo n Tu e W ed Th u Fri Sa t 01 January January 1973 Su n GENRE: ALL GENRES GENRE: ALL GENRES SOURCE TYPE: All Sources SOURCE TYPE: All Sources 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18: R.T.E. (Radio Telefís Éireann) Radio Éireann SEARCH FACILITY --- USER LOGIN // PERSONALISATION Sesame Street. Ireland in the EEC --- Ol. Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion Three-o-One: The Sound of... Nua.. LANGUAGE: All Languages LANGUAGE: All Languages Tógha.. The Good.. The Y. Ne ws Music on th.. ß Tragedy Hits Holiday Group Tu e W ed Th u Fri Sa t 01 January January 1973 Su n Mo n Martin McGuinness held at Bridewell Coombe Hospital wins the baby race Official IRA adm... 5 Accused of Misleading Villagers Tu e W ed Th u January January 1973 Su n Mo n Fri Roads Row Victory for Connemara Hurling Star Drowned while Oyster Dredging Sa t IVERNIA in London Nora one of the first in Europe The Irish Press The Kerryman The Connacht Tribune

DRI Presentation THE MEDIA ENVELOPE Mo n Tu e W ed Th u Fri Sa t 01 January January 1973 Su n GENRE: ALL GENRES GENRE: ALL GENRES SOURCE TYPE: All Sources SOURCE TYPE: All Sources 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18: R.T.E. (Radio Telefís Éireann) Radio Éireann SEARCH FACILITY --- USER LOGIN // PERSONALISATION Sesame Street. Ireland in the EEC --- Ol. Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion Three-o-One: The Sound of... Nua.. LANGUAGE: All Languages LANGUAGE: All Languages Tógha.. The Good.. The Y. Ne ws Music on th.. ß Tragedy Hits Holiday Group Tu e W ed Th u Fri Sa t 01 January January 1973 Su n Mo n Martin McGuinness held at Bridewell Coombe Hospital wins the baby race Official IRA adm... 5 Accused of Misleading Villagers Tu e W ed Th u January January 1973 Su n Mo n Fri Roads Row Victory for Connemara Hurling Star Drowned while Oyster Dredging Sa t IVERNIA in London Nora one of the first in Europe The Irish Press The Kerryman The Connacht Tribune

DRI Presentation Dr. Jane Gray, IQDA Changing life patterns in Ireland, 1900s to present Demonstrator: 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"

DRI Presentation Robin Adams, TCD Library Stained Glass Windows photographs, drawings Business records, ephemera Demonstrator: Harry Clarke 1889 to 1931

DRI Presentation Dr. Una Walker, NIVAL Photographic archive Demonstrator: Kilkenny Design Workshops

DRI Presentation Dr. Seathrún Ó Tuairisg, NUIG RTÉ RnG: 40 years broadcast history, 23K hours Folklore gathering, béaloideas Sean nós Demonstrator: Irish Language

DRI Presentation National Engagement International Engagement Open Source Software Partnerships & Training

DRI Presentation International Advisory Group DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) – Best Practices & Open Access Europeana, DECIPHER ALLEA (Alliance of All European Academies) E- Humanities Working Group European Data Forum (Dublin, April 2013) Research Data Alliance (Dublin, March 2014) Memberships: Digital Preservation Coalition, FIAT/IFTA, BISA, etc. International Engagement: European Networks, E-Infrastructures, Coalitions

DRI Presentation International Engagement Current PracticesBest Practices Guidelines & National Policy

DRI Presentation National Engagement International Engagement Open Source Software Partnerships & Training

DRI Presentation Open Source Software Project Hydra Fedora Commons Apache SOLR (REST API – well documented) HydraCamp Dublin (Trinity College Dublin, April 2013) Drupal Developer Days (Dublin Institute of Technology, June 2013)

DRI Presentation National Engagement International Engagement Open Source Software Partnerships & Training

DRI Presentation Partnerships: Targeted Projects e.g. Making LOGAINM available as Linked Data

DRI Presentation Partnerships: Targeted Projects e.g. Making LOGAINM available as Linked Data

DRI Presentation Training Workshops/Seminars: Linked Data, Data Modelling, Visualisation (and all about DH) Translation workshops by request – e.g. archivists, librarians Digital Preservation in a Day Open Access Public Events (e.g. Researchers Night Curate-a-thon) Partnerships with: Digital Preservation Coalition (trust, digital pres. for beginners) CENDARI (European collaborative research infrastructure) Central Statistics Office - curation roadshow (4 th quarter 2013) 2014: Documentation on ingestion guidelines, hands-on workshops

DRI Presentation Prototype of repository, single and bulk ingest Hardware on site; private cloud created Initial design of user interface (tools will be bilingual) Open Access to Metadata (at a minimum) Metadata formats: Dublin Core, MODS, EAD, MARCXML, METS (indexed, searchable, faceted) DRI to mint DOIs (PID) International Report (follows National one) File formats – text and image In progress: ingestion guidelines on preparing metadata, audio and video formats, IP/copyright/deposit licenses Current Status (July 2013)

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