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Presentation to the British and Irish Sound Archives annual conference, May 16, 2014, in Dublin, Ireland. By Natalie Harrower, Manager of Education and Outreach at DRI
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Natalie HarrowerNew Developments
at the Digital Repository of Ireland
BISA conference, Dublin, 16 May 2014Natalie Harrower
Education & Outreach
What is the Digital Repository of Ireland?
DRI Presentation
DRI is an interactive, national trusted digital repository for contemporary and historical, social and cultural data held by Irish institutions
Core Grant: HEA PRTLI 5, €5.2M
RIA (lead), NUIM, TCD, DIT, NUIG, NCAD
Sep 2011 – Sep 2015
Partnership projects: diversified funding to 2019
Funding
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
What do we do?
Stakeholder Advisory Group
International Advisory Group
Management Board
Core Implementation
Team
Management, Operations Infrastructure Rollout
Policy, Requirements
DRI Structure
Demonstrators, E&O
Metadata Guidelines Workflows
IP & Copyright
Data Protection
DRI Internal Growth – e.g. Task Forces
Sustainability Models
TDR – Trusted Digital
Repository
Irish Language
DRI External Growth: Connecting with the Community
Education & Outreach (Events & Dissemination)
Partnerships
Collaborative Projects
DRI Core
Big Data Industry
Academic
LibrariesArchives
Cultural Institutions
Custodians of social data
App Developers
Community Interest
DRI Repository Preview – 14 May 2014
• Pilot version launched to a small group of stakeholders 2 days ago
• Currently have 18 collections from 15 institutions
• File formats include image, text, audio
• Ability to browse, search, view collections, objects, all
metadata, download objects (depends on license)
Continuing to Grow
Events
Collaborative Projects (e.g. Inspiring
Ireland)
Sound archive projects
Recent Events:Specialised in-house workshops (Getting Started in Dig. Pres,
Metadata cleaning)Tech Community engagment (Hydracamp, Digital Preservation
Coalition)DRI in the classroom (DAH Programme, TCD Intern)Large-scale international conferences/networks (Research Data
Alliance)Large-scale community events (European Researchers’
Night/Journalist for a Night)Symposia (Open Access to Humanities Data; Medical Humanities
symposium)
Upcoming: Data-driven humanities (June 27); Targeted DRI training
Current Projects/Partnerships
• MoTIF: Pilot Thesaurus on Irish Folklore (with NLI)• Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913: vital registration data• 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)• Partnership activities and contributions to international
networks and e-infrastructures including ALLEA, DARIAH, RDA, Inspiring Ireland
Collaborative Project between DRI, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Minister Jimmy Deenihan), and the following NCIs:
• National Gallery of Ireland• National Archives of Ireland• National Library of Ireland• National Museum of Ireland• Irish Museum of Modern Art• Abbey Theatre• Crawford Gallery• Chester Beatty Library
• Online portal to Ireland’s Digital Cultural Assets (GLAMs)• Built on DRI’s preservation infrastructure
Additional assets for DRI Test platform for our API Relationship building with stakeholders Tourism and fundraising tool for Minister of Arts, Heritage and
Gaeltacht Part of a systematic programme in digital preservation,
discovery & access
Object Detail
Current Projects withSound Archives
DRI Demonstrators
The DRI-INSIGHT RTÉ project
Proposed project with Contemporary Music Centre
DRI Presentation
Dr. Seathrún Ó Tuairisg, NUIG
RTÉ RnG: 40 years broadcast history
Folklore gathering, béaloideas
DRI Demonstrator Project: Irish Language
DRI Demonstrator Projects
Dr. Jane Gray, IQDA
Changing life patterns in Ireland, 1900s to present
DRI Demonstrator Project: Life Stories
• Text and audio files (wav format)• Oral histories of growing up in Ireland, across
different time periods• Create visualisations of data by theme, place, time
e.g. "My mother used to make a ball and we used to play ball, she used to make a hurl out of a bit of a board and make the handle a bit thin and you could catch it, no shape or make it only a bit of a board. And she used to make a ball out of a soft set of turf and put an old sock around it"
DRI Demonstrator Projects
DRI-Insight RTÉ project
• Sound Archive consists of various programming: music,
spoken-word, and news.• ~ 170,000 hours of material from a wide range of topics
and genres• Project is to build a Linked Data content-discovery
innovation • Annotating & linking what are now separate archives, to
allow more efficient search & discovery (tv, photo, radio)• Using RTE’s existing metadata and a subsection for
demo
Proposed collaborative project with Contemporary
Music Centre• Collaboration between DRI, CMC & Insight@NUIG
• Linked Data technology
• Goal to provide wider use / re-use of CMC content
