Presentation given by Clare Lanigan, DRI Education and Outreach Manager, to students of the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, at the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) Abroad centre in Rathmines, Dublin, on 1 June 2017.

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Clare Lanigan
Education & Outreach Manager, Digital Repository of Ireland
Introduction to The Digital
Repository of Ireland

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Introduction to Digital Repository of Ireland
Ireland’s national digital repository
Launched June 2015
Built by consortium of institutions. Current institutions
are RIA, TCD and MU.

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Introduction to Digital Repository of Ireland
Built a digital preservation infrastructure (hardware and
open access software)
Long term preservation of objects and data relating to
arts, social sciences and humanities
Collections from many major institutions including NLI,
NMI, NCAD, UCC.

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DRI Management Structure
Management Board
Operational Areas
Working
Groups Projects
Core Implementation Team
(PIs)

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TDR
Received Data Seal of Approval in 2015
Places us in category of Trusted Digital Repository
(TDR)
One of only two TDRs in the country

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DRI Website and Repository (www.dri.ie)

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DRI Website and Repository (www.dri.ie)
Web interface for accessing & navigating our collections
View thumbnails & download high-quality preservation objects
Access our Publications, including Metadata Guidelines
Links to Projects, Resources, Events, Blog

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Members
Abbey Theatre
An Foras Feasa
Contemporary Music Centre
Crawford Art Gallery Cork
Discovery Programme (TII)
Dublin City Library &
Archives
Irish Capuchin Provincial
Archives
Irish Historic Towns Atlas
Irish Qualitative Data Archive
Maynooth University Library
National Archives of Ireland
National College of Art and
Design
National Library of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland
National University of Ireland,
Galway
Oidhreacht an Chlair Teo
Project Arts Centre
Royal Irish Academy Library
Royal Irish Academy
Publications
RTE Archives
Trinity College Dublin
University College Cork

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Projects
Concluded
• Inspiring Ireland 1916: Weaving
Public and Private Narratives
(DAHG/Diaspora) – public
collection days
• Frongoch and 1916: Recreating
a Lost Landscape (DFA)
(Shortlisted for e-Gov award)
• Partner in DAH PHD PRTLI
consortium
• Collaboration continues on
legacy RD archive project
Continuing
• H2020 - RDA Europea
Activities (RDA3) to Feb
2018
• Contribute to E&O, HSS
domains, policy
• H2020 for RDA4
submitted; start Feb 2018
• Major new project with AP,
Cornell and others
• 3.5 years – digital archive,
exhibitions, events

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Publications

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Publications
• Published DRI Code on Github
• DRI Code of Ethics
• DRI Requirements Specifications
• DRI Disaster Recovery (in progress)
• Factsheets Series e.g. Membership,
Copyright & Licensing
• ‘How to DRI Series’
• Policy Series
• Journal Papers, Conferences
• Metadata guidelines (Dublin
Core, EAD, MODS,
• Usage guides e.g.
Geotagging, Caring for Digital
Content
• Reports e.g. Infrastructure,
Funding Models
• Reports on specific projects

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Prominent Collections
Inspiring Ireland and Inspiring Ireland 1916

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Prominent Collections
Inspiring Ireland
Inspiring Ireland is an ambitious project to share high quality images of Ireland’s treasured cultural
assets in a single curated, interactive website. The project is a collaboration between the Department
of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the Digital Repository of Ireland, the National Library, the National
Museum, the National Gallery, the National Archives, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Crawford Art
Gallery, the Chester Beatty Library and the Abbey Theatre. The project was officially launched at
Stanford University on 16th March 2014.
Inspiring Ireland won 3 Ireland eGovernment awards in Jan 2015: Overall Winner, Promoting Ireland
Overseas, and Open Source and was also a finalist in the 2014 Digital Preservation Awards.

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Prominent Collections
Inspiring Ireland 1916
Inspiring Ireland 1916 presents a new series of exhibitions of cultural artefacts, stories
and interpretation that surround the events of 1916. Available online from January 2016,
the exhibitions curate iconic national treasures alongside privately-owned memorabilia
gathered at national and international collection days in Dublin, London and New York.
Exhibitions launched included Women & the Rising, The Rising in The Regions, Leaders
of the Rising, among others.

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Inspiring Ireland 1916: Public Collections

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Digital Exhibitions: Frongoch & 1916

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Digital Exhibitions: Frongoch & 1916
The collections comprise three intertwined themes that
recreate the lost landscape of Frongoch prison camp by
telling the big, small and hidden stories of men who were
detained there until December 1916. Accompanied by expert
narrative, these fascinating sources include ‘found’ objects
from private collections - correspondence, 'autograph' books
and diaries, alongside official documents, photos, artworks
and handicrafts made by prisoners, and more, from the
collections of the National Museum and National Library of
Ireland and the Peoples Collection Wales, a digital cultural
heritage project of the National Museum and Library of
Wales.

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Digital Exhibitions: Frongoch & 1916

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Frongoch & 1916 on social media

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Frongoch & 1916 on social media

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Prominent Collections
Photographs of Dublin after 1916 rising (Westropp collection)
This is a collection of 40 photographs taken 17-18 May 1916 by Thomas Johnson
Westropp, 1860-1922. Westropp placed them in an album entitled, ‘Ruined buildings in
Dublin after the Sinn Fein rebellion, April-May 1916 by Thomas Westropp, photographed
May 17th & 18th 1916’, which he presented to the Royal Irish Academy on 13 June 1916.

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Prominent Collections
Kilkenny Design Workshops Collection

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Accessing DRI Collections
Open access (OA) refers to online research outputs that are free of all
restrictions on access and free of many restrictions on use (e.g. certain
copyright and license restrictions).
Open Access is preferable for publicly funded data.
DRI encourages publicly accessible data; Open Access where appropriate; CC-
BY licensed metadata and CC licensed objects.
Open Access for Data and Digital Repository of Ireland:
http://dri.ie/sites/default/files/files/dri-position-statement-on-open-access-for-data-
2014.pdf

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Accessing DRI Collections
Most collections can be accessed through the web
interface at repository.dri.ie
Some collections contain Restricted Data that can only be
accessed by researchers with permission from rights
holders. This usually applies to social science research
collections where subjects are still living.

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Using Objects
We encourage depositors to make their objects as
accessible & usable as possible to researchers.
If reusing items, check the Rights Statement in case you
need to credit the rights owner, or check the permissions in
the CC licence (if applicable)
All metadata in the Repository is given a CC-BY licence
(Creative Commons Attribution 4.0).

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Examples of Rights Statements

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Citations
Cite function built-in to repository:

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Useful DRI Publications
Copyright, Licensing and Open
Access Factsheet
http://dri.ie/publications#factsheets

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Useful DRI Publications
End User Terms and Conditions
http://dri.ie/publications#policy

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Useful DRI Publications
End User Terms and Conditions
as seen first time a user
accesses the repository

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Happy researching!
www.dri.ie
repository.dri.ie
@clarelanigan
@dri_ireland