DRI and Open Data

Dr. Natalie HarrowerDigital Repository of Ireland

@natalieharrower

What is the Digital Repository of Ireland?

• A national Trusted Digital Repository (TDR)

• Consortium built, cross-institution collections

• Long-term data preservation, access, discovery

• Ireland’s social and cultural data

• Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts

images

music

business records

drawingsdiaries

photographs

film & video

letters

documents

posters

oral histories

electoral lists

radiopaintings

objects

What else is DRI?

Research Centre for Best Practices in:

Digital Archiving & Metadata

Digital Preservation

Data Curation

Digital Media Sharing

Publications

Publications

Open Access for Data and the Digital Repository of Ireland

• In support of National Principles on Open Access Policy Statement

• Requires ‘ecosystem of interdependent actions at policy, system & service level’

• Data training• Sustained e-infrastructures• Progressive approach to copyright &

licensing suitable to digital world• Incentives: funding archiving costs;

suitable metrics for acknowledging value & career progression.

Publications

Going Digital: Creating Change in the Humanities (ALLEA)

Digital Humanities: Ireland’s Opportunity

(Irish Research Council)

Funding Models for Open Access Repositories

Initiatives in Open Data/Open Access:Repository Practices

• Freely searchable online; recommend Creative Commons licenses; choose ‘as open as possible’

• Open Access to Metadata (CC-BY)

• Minting DOIs – DataCite/British Library

• Authentication & Authorisation for sensitive data

• Research Data Management (Humanities & Arts Pilot)

Initiatives in Open Data/Open Access:Policy, International Networks, Education

• National Steering Committee on Open Access Policy (2012)

• Open Access to Humanities Data – RIA (2013)

• Research Data Alliance – (2014 Plenary & RDA3 EU)

• ALLEA E-Humanities Working Group – Open Science

• Chair of EOSC visit to Ireland – June 27 & 28 2016

• OECD Global Science Forum High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Data Repositories (2016)

Linked Open Data and Europeana:Linked Logainm: http://labs.europeana.eu/apps/linked-logainm

Hack4Europe!

Winner: Application with Greatest Social Impact

Narrative curation of Personal objects + Europeana via new API

Sample Collection 1: Inspiring Ireland

Sample Collection 1: Inspiring Ireland

• Inspiring Ireland is DRI’s flagship digital cultural heritage platform

• First phase: bringing together content from Ireland’s NCIs; Second phase: Inspiring Ireland 1916: Weaving Public and Private Narratives

• Visually clean, image-forward front-end that pulls from DRI’s API

• Challenges to ‘Open data’• Phase 1: GLAM sector business models

• Phase 2: Orphan Works

Sample Collection 2: IQDA Oral Histories

Sample Collection 2: IQDA Oral Histories

• Second World War and Irish Women (open; TXT)

• Magdalene Oral History Collection (open, anonymised; PDF)

• Outside the Glow: Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland (restricted to teaching and research use)

• Challenges to ‘Open data’• Personal data

• Authentication Protocols

• Legacy Permissions

The Open Data Scale

Tim Berners Lee – 5 Star Open Data

• 1. On the web with Open License 2. Machine-readable 3. Open format 4. URIs/RDFa 5. Linked Open Data (connect it…)

• The focus is on technical aspects

• Open licence not always first step

• Other approachesto idea of ‘discovery’