This document summarizes Natalie Harrower's presentation on new developments at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). It provides an overview of DRI, including its mission to be a national digital repository for Irish cultural and historical data. Recent projects are highlighted, such as partnerships to digitize sound archives and build a portal for accessing Ireland's digital cultural assets. Upcoming events and training are also noted.

1. Natalie HarrowerNew Developments
at the Digital Repository of Ireland
BISA conference, Dublin, 16 May 2014
Natalie Harrower
Education & Outreach

2. 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

3. Core Grant: HEA PRTLI 5, €5.2M
RIA (lead), NUIM, TCD, DIT, NUIG, NCAD
Sep 2011 – Sep 2015
Partnership projects: diversified funding to 2019
Funding

4. Digital Preservation
Data Discovery
Access & Curation
Narratives, Visualisation
How do we do it?
Robust TDR Infrastructure
Policy and Advocacy
Education and Outreach
Projects and Partnerships
What do we do?

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

6. Metadata
Guidelines
Workflows
IP & Copyright
Data Protection
DRI Internal Growth – e.g. Task Forces
Sustainability
Models
TDR – Trusted
Digital
Repository
Irish Language

7. DRI External Growth: Connecting with the
Community
Education & Outreach
(Events & Dissemination)
Partnerships
Collaborative Projects
DRI Core
Big Data
Industry
Academic
Libraries
Archives
Cultural
Institutions
Custodians of
social data
App
Developers
Community
Interest

8. DRI Repository Preview – 14 May 2014
• Pilot version launched to a small group of
stakeholders 2 days ago
• Currently have 18 collections from 15 institutions
• File formats include image, text, audio
• Ability to browse, search, view collections, objects, all
metadata, download objects (depends on license)

9. Continuing to Grow
Events
Collaborative Projects (e.g. Inspiring Ireland)
Sound archive projects

10. Recent Events:
Specialised in-house workshops (Getting Started in Dig. Pres, Metadata cleaning)
Tech Community engagment (Hydracamp, Digital Preservation Coalition)
DRI in the classroom (DAH Programme, TCD Intern)
Large-scale international conferences/networks (Research Data Alliance)
Large-scale community events (European Researchers’ Night/Journalist for a Night)
Symposia (Open Access to Humanities Data; Medical Humanities symposium)
Upcoming: Data-driven humanities (June 27); Targeted DRI training

11. Current Projects/Partnerships
• MoTIF: Pilot Thesaurus on Irish Folklore (with NLI)
• Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913: vital registration data
• The DRI-INSIGHT RTÉ project: content discovery for archives
• PLOT: app for cultural tourism
• Social Repository of Ireland – SFI Technology Innovation Development
Award (TIDA Feasibility Study)
• Partnership activities and contributions to international networks and e-
infrastructures including ALLEA, DARIAH, RDA, Inspiring Ireland

12. Collaborative Project between DRI, Department of Arts, Heritage and the
Gaeltacht (Minister Jimmy Deenihan), and the following NCIs:
• National Gallery of Ireland
• National Archives of Ireland
• National Library of Ireland
• National Museum of Ireland
• Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Abbey Theatre
• Crawford Gallery
• Chester Beatty Library

13. • Online portal to Ireland’s Digital Cultural Assets (GLAMs)
• Built on DRI’s preservation infrastructure
 Additional assets for DRI
 Test platform for our API
 Relationship building with stakeholders
 Tourism and fundraising tool for Minister of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht
 Part of a systematic programme in digital preservation, discovery & access

15. Object
Detail

16. Current Projects with
Sound Archives
DRI Demonstrators
The DRI-INSIGHT RTÉ project
Proposed project with
Contemporary Music Centre

17. DRI Presentation
Dr. Seathrún Ó Tuairisg, NUIG
RTÉ RnG: 40 years broadcast history
Folklore gathering, béaloideas
DRI Demonstrator Project: Irish Language
DRI Demonstrator Projects

18. Dr. Jane Gray, IQDA
Changing life patterns in Ireland, 1900s to present
DRI Demonstrator Project: Life Stories
• Text and audio files (wav format)
• Oral histories of growing up in Ireland, across
different time periods
• Create visualisations of data by theme, place, time
e.g. "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 Demonstrator Projects

19. DRI-Insight RTÉ project
• Sound Archive consists of various programming: music,
spoken-word, and news.
• ~ 170,000 hours of material from a wide range of topics
and genres
• Project is to build a Linked Data content-discovery
innovation
• Annotating & linking what are now separate archives, to
allow more efficient search & discovery (tv, photo, radio)
• Using RTE’s existing metadata and a subsection for demo

20. Proposed collaborative project with
Contemporary Music Centre
• Collaboration between DRI, CMC & Insight@NUIG
• Linked Data technology
• Goal to provide wider use / re-use of CMC content

21. Thank you!
Contact
www.dri.ie
n.harrower@ria.ie
@dri_ireland