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Natalie Harrower

Natalie Harrower. The Importance of Trusted Digital Preservation (for Humanities Data) 1 st International Workshop on Computational History June 27, 2014 Natalie Harrower Education & Outreach. What is the Digital Repository of Ireland?.

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Natalie Harrower

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  1. Natalie Harrower The Importance of Trusted Digital Preservation (for Humanities Data) 1st International Workshop on Computational History June 27, 2014 Natalie Harrower Education & Outreach

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

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

  4. What do we do? • 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

  5. DRI Repository Preview – 14 May 2014 • Pilot version launched to a small group of • stakeholders last month. Public launch this fall • Currently have 18 collections from 15 institutions • File formats include image, text, audio • Content: artwork, scripts, radio, music, reports, • manifestos, war posters, interviews, Irish language • Ability to browse, search, view collections, objects, all • metadata, download objects (depends on license)

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

  7. Why Digital Preservation?

  8. Why Digital Preservation? • Archiving brings order and discoverability • Preservation for long-term accessibility • Ability to share data = unexpected discoveries, • research reproducibility, cost savings • Enables links between data sets • Facilitates data-driven humanities research

  9. Why a Trusted Digital Repository? “A trusted digital repository is one whose mission is to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and in the future”

  10. Key Aspects of Trust Authenticity & Provenance Attention to Standards and Quality of data Formal Agreements & Procedures Data Security & Access Authentication

  11. Sample Projects/Partnerships • Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913: vital registration data • MoTIF: Pilot Thesaurus on Irish Folklore (with NLI) • 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) • Research Data Alliance, DARIAH, Digital Preservation Coalition

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

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