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Dr. Natalie Harrower

Director, Digital Repository of Ireland

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DRI, RDA and IrelandRDA-NORF workshop on Open Research Data

Friday 8th September 2017

Ireland and RDA:

Events, Participation, Coordination

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• Local hosts for 3rd Plenary in March 2014

• Co-organised with Australian RDA

(ANDS)

Irish participants in RDA: 130 individuals

7%

54%8%

23%

8%

Growth over the years

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Global members: 6,070

Individuals from 130 countries

50% from Europe

RDA Third Plenary Meeting, Dublin, Ireland

26 to 28 March 2014

Figure: Timea Biro

Irish participants: breakdown by professionJournalist/Editor/Copywriter

1%Policy

development manager/Policy

Consultant2%

Advisor/Consultant2% CEO/Managing

Director/Chief Executive2%

Student12%

IT Specialist/IT Architect8%

Librarian11%

Professor3%

Programme Manager/Project Manager

8%

Other16%

Researcher35%

Figure: Timea Biro

Irish participants: breakdown by organisation type

Figure: Timea Biro

2%1%

2% 2% 1% 4%

6%

82%

Press and Media Policy/Funding Agency

Large Enterprise IT Consultancy/Development

Small and Medium Enterprise Other (please specify) - obligatory

Government/Public Services Academia/Research

Why is DRI part of RDA?

• Global alignment of best practices in data sharing and

reuse. Interoperability, beyond geo-boundaries

• Can be part of shaping outcomes

• Networks of experts in data science, data curation, data

archiving, data preservation, data policy, research data

• Continual connection and awareness at the European &

Global levels to emerging research, trends, policies

• Access to collaborators, funding opportunities

• Grassroots working groups with governmental and funder

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RDA Europe role

• Coordination and support activities are funded by the EU

• Ireland involved in RDA3 and RDA4

• Two Irish partners: DRI and NLI

• Focus is on library, archives, and digital humanities areas

• RDA3 (2015-2018): work packages in practitioner training,

communications, and policy advocacy

• RDA4 (2018-2020): DRI leading Ambassador Programme;

NLI serving as National node

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Adoption of RDA Outputs

• DFT Core data model (PIDs on publication, widely

accepted metadata standards, certification of TDR,

checksums, and FAIR data compliant)

• DSA/WDS integrated approach to repository certification

(2017)

• Metadata Standards Directory (eg. Dublin Core)

• In progress: RDA/WDS Publishing data

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How does DRI align with RDA pursuits?

Four key aspects to DRI’s work:

1. Trusted digital repository – long term data preservation,

access, reuse

2. Education & Outreach

3. Research active: projects, technologies, publications

4. Advocacy, community building, policy input

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Trusted Digital Repository

• A national data infrastructure

• Certified (DSA 2015; renewal in progress)

• Long-term digital preservation, access, discovery

• Ireland’s social and cultural data (digital collections)

• Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts (research data)

• Curated collections; cross-searchable metadata

• Open Source, Open Access (minimum: open MD)

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Education & Outreach

• Ongoing training in data prep, digital collections,

metadata and ingestion

• Collaborative events (e.g. CC licences & Wikimedia)

• Conferences & workshops (DPASSH; EOSC visit)

• International conferences (OR, PASIG)

• Guest lectures, internships, service-learning

collaborations

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Research active

• Research Projects

• Official Samvera partners

• Implementation of new protocols (e.g IIIF)

• Code is open source, on git-hub

• Publications in journals, conference presentations

• Series of guidelines, reports, fact sheets

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Publications

Metadata Guidelines

Research Projects

• Digital Cultural Heritage Platform with

custom front end

• Data preserved in DRI and pulled via API

• Atlantic Philanthropies Archives Project

• Collaboration with Cornell University

Library towards interoperable metadata,

shared standards, PIDs

• Research Data Management in DRI

• Started as DAH legacy project for complex

digital arts and humanities data types

• Continues with requirements specification

phase over next 12 months

Advocacy, networks, policy input

• OECD Global Science Forum: Sustainable Business Models for Data Repositories

• Open Repositories 2016 (TCD HPC hosts)

• PASIG 2017 Programme Committee (Sept 2017, Oxford)

• Hydra/Samvera Official Partners

• DARIAH Ireland Steering Committee

• Chair ALLEA e-Humanities Working Group

• Digital Preservation Coalition, Comms & Advocacy Committee

• Research Data Alliance Europe Project (H2020)

• DPASSH 2017 at Sussex University (June 2017)

• Hosted first EOSC Chair national visit event (Barend Mons, June 2016)

How can we facilitate truly open research?

• National infrastructures that are properly supported so they can

continue to serve changing research. Ease of access to these.

• Grant models that encourage and support the entire data life-cycle –

e.g. data preservation as allowable cost

• Data deposit, preservation, open access mandated by funders

• Experts to review DMPs

• Interoperable data that is FAIR and follows international standards

• Copyright reform that reflects current digital realities

• Recognition of data stewards in the research ecosystem

• Recognition of data efforts by researchers (e.g. in promotion & review)

• Widespread training in data management as well as education about the

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