Building the Digital Repository of Ireland, building a digital community (Natalie Harrower)

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 9 2013 | 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
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DRI links and preserves the rich data held by
Irish institutions, providing a central internet
access point, and multimedia tools

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• 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 2015. Initial grant €5.2M
• Funding currently extended out to 2019
Funding/Consortium

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

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

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 National Engagement

Consultation: Interviews with content holders
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• 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
• www.dri.ie/publications

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
Nat’l 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

Database / Where do you keep records?

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

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

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

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Prof Chris Morash & Dr John Keating, NUIM
Demonstrator: Media Envelope
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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"

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

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

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

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National Engagement
International Engagement

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• 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

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Current Practices Best Practices

Guidelines &
National Policy

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National Engagement
 Open Source Software

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• 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)

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National Engagement
 Partnerships & Training

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

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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 (4th
quarter 2013)
2014: Documentation on ingestion guidelines, hands-on workshops

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• 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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Contact us!
www.dri.ie
slideshare.net/dri_ireland
@dri_ireland
n.harrower@ria.ie

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