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www.dippam.ac.uk. Using dippam for teaching Prof Peter Gray, QUB. What is dippam?. A virtual library of historical sources Available over the web to all users, globally and for free, at www.dippam.ac.uk Fully searchable and browsable documents
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www.dippam.ac.uk Using dippam for teaching Prof Peter Gray, QUB
What is dippam? • A virtual library of historical sources • Available over the web to all users, globally and for free, atwww.dippam.ac.uk • Fully searchable and browsable documents • Contains multimedia resources – texts, images and audio • A key resource for recovering the history of modern Ireland and its overseas diaspora • Particular focus on migration from Ulster • Collections bring together narratives of migration from the 18th century to the recent past
A collaborative project The dippam partnership: QUB Development work: Prof Peter Gray (PI), Dr Ricky Rankin, Gavin Mitchell, Conail Stewart, Cormac O’Donnell, Mark McCalmont Web hosting by QUB Information Services CMS Development work: Dr Brian Lambkin, Dr Paddy Fitzgerald UU Development work: Dr Johanne Devlin Trew LNI Development work: Joe Mullan LNI Promotion: Deirdre Nugent AHRC Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact (DEDEFI) award 2010-11 And funded by: Thanks also to: Professor Liam Kennedy (QUB) and Professor Marianne Elliott (University of Liverpool) for assistance in development of VMR; Julian Ball and Richard Wake (University of Southampton) for assistance with development of EPPI; Lorraine Tennant, formerly data collection officer of IED 1988-2007, and to Scotch Irish Trust and DCAL ,for support in development of IED; Paperjam (Belfast) for design work.
What does dippam include? dippam brings together three different but complementary databases: • EPPI: Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland (1801-1922) - A comprehensive full-text digital archive of over 14,000 official publications relating to Ireland from 1801-1922. Full text scans with OCR transcripts. - Initially digitised as ‘EPPI’ 2002-5 by University of Southampton (AHRC funded); now restored and enhanced (2) IED: The Irish Emigration Database (18th-20th centuries) • Created by CMS Omagh since 1988 from documents held by PRONI and other NI libraries / private donors; now universally available over the web. Mostly transcripts with some images and attachments. (3) VMR: Voices of Migration and Return (later 20th century) - Created by AHRC-funded oral narratives project at QUB/CMS 2004-8; MP3 audio files now searchable and available to researchers
A central theme: Ireland’s migration experience • EPPI – documents the social context of Irish emigration 1801-1922: social conditions, famine, population pressures; internal migration. Also records government regulation; debates over ‘colonization; and state assistance. Also some transcribed voices reflecting direct migration experience • IED – a wide range of sources, but at heart the narratives of family migration experience captured and preserved in the emigrant letter and memoir • VMR – over 90 personal narratives of emigrants and return migrants from Ulster – captured and available on digital audio. A link between the historical experience captured in EPPI and IED, and our own times and experience.
Using EPPI • Search by keyword in fulltext or title • Restrict search by date ranges • Restrict by type of document
Other online government records: • Hansard 1803-2005: http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/ • Oireachtas debates 1919-2010 • http://www.oireachtas.ie/