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The Digital Repository of Ireland is housed in the Royal Irish Academy

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a digital repository for Ireland's humanities, social science and cultural heritage data.[1] It was designed to protect and preserve the data and to aprovide access to the public. Launched on 24 June 2015 at Croke Park,[2][3] DRI is a consortium of six Irish academic institutions: Royal Irish Academy (RIA), National University of Ireland, Maynooth (now Maynooth University or MU), Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), and National College of Art and Design (NCAD). In 2017 it was announced that the DRI was partnering with Samvera[4], and as of that year it was estimated that it was home to 25,000 items.[5]

Structure

The governing body for DRI is a Managment Board which is composed of representatives of each of the academic institutions. The Core Implementation Team (CIT) is responsible for the day to day running of the Repository as well as strategy development, coordination and project delivery. The CIT is composed of the DRI Director, DRI Principal Investigators and Institutional representatives, and the DRI Programme Manager in RIA.

The DRI has three main areas of focus: Technology, Policy, and Education and Outreach. The technological software protects and preserves the data while allowing easy searching and navigation through the material. Development of policy protocols for data generation and preparation for archiving is a core remit of DRI. Education and Outreach include a training programme and direct contact with the public through workshops and newsletters.

Projects

DRI has been involved with many projects since inception.[6]

  • DECIPHER / Storyscope - Launched January 2013
  • Linked Logainm: Location LODer - Launched September 2013
  • The DRI-INSIGHT RTÉ project - Launched September 2013
  • Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913 - Launched December 2013
  • The Social Repository of Ireland - Launched January 2014
  • PLoT - Launched February 2014
  • Inspiring Ireland - Launched March 2014 - won overall award, open source award, and the promoting Ireland award at the eGovernment Awards at Dublin Castle in 2015[7]
  • MoTIF Project - Launched May 2014
  • DAH Programme - Launched 2014
  • CMC LINE-UP Platform: Linked Irish NEw mUsic Platform - Launched January 2015
  • Research Data Alliance H2020 Project - Launched September 2015
  • Inspiring Ireland 1916 - Launched January 2016
  • Frongoch and 1916 - Launched December 2016
  • Atlantic Philanthropies Active Curation Project - Launched August 2017

References

  1. ^ Nick, Callan. "Digital Repository of Ireland Launched". merrionstreet.ie. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  2. ^ Faller, Grainne (26 June 2015). "Insight partner the Digital Repository of Ireland launched". Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  3. ^ "About DRI | Digital Repository Ireland". www.dri.ie. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  4. ^ "The Digital Repository of Ireland joins Hydra". Samvera. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  5. ^ Russ, Johanna (8 May 2017). "Digital Repository of Ireland". The American Archivist Reviews Portal. The American Archivist. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  6. ^ "PROJECTS | Digital Repository Ireland". www.dri.ie. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  7. ^ "DRI, Failte Ireland big winners at eGovernment Awards - TechCentral.ie". TechCentral.ie. 2015-02-02. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
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