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Inspiring Ireland: Preservation, the
Public and Collaborative Collection
WHAT? Inspiring Ireland is an award-winning
•Single online open access portal to Ireland’s digital cultural
heritage
•Unique collaboration: DRI, Irish & Welsh National Cultural
Institutions (NCIs), Private collectors
•Collections of objects about life in Ireland in 1916
•Site that promotes knowledge of Ireland overseas
WHY? •Speaks to DRI's core principles: preserve, discover, share
•Multi-institutional, transnational and private content
•Pilot project to test the DRI’s Application Programming Interface
(API) functionality
•Curated exhibitions to enhance and expand the user experience
•Long-term preservation of content in a trusted digital repository
infrastructure
Inspiring Ireland 1916
weaves public and private
narratives with expert
commentary alongside
iconic objects from NCIs,
and ‘found’ objects from
private collections, to create
a multi-media reflection on
the people, events, and
legacy of 1916.
HOW? •Digitised objects contributed by NCIs
•Public Memorabilia digitised at national/international ‘Collection Days’
•Metadata and Open Access licensing applied to DRI collections
•Published to the Inspiring Ireland Drupal site via DRI’s Application
Programming Interface (API)
•Thematic exhibitions with contextual history essays
•Deeper object knowledge via curatorial text & personal narrative
CHALLENGES •Metadata control
•Site functionality vs.
collection integrity
•Rights Management
RESULTS •Global user base
•Open Access to Irish
history sources
•New modes of hybrid
digital scholarship
•Serendipitous research
finds
•Over 300 digital
objects
•10 thematic
exhibitions
•4 Collection Days
•84 private donors
Clockwise from top left: Tommy 'Banker' Walsh (donated: RTE), Fairyhouse
Race Card, Easter Monday 1916 (donated: Patricia Hendrick), Pocket Watch
Hopkins &Hopkins (donated: Caroline McGee), Eden Quay, May 17 1916
(donated: Royal Irish Academy).