Presentation on the DRI to the British and Irish Sound Archiving Association on May 17, 2013

1. Dr Natalie Harrower
Manager, Education and Outreach
Digital Repository of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy
Presentation to BISA, Isle of Man, May 17, 2013

2. Mission Statement
DRI Presentation
DRI is an interactive trusted digital repository
for contemporary and historical, social and
cultural data held by Irish institutions

3. Vision
DRI Presentation
DRI links and preserves the rich data held by
Irish institutions, providing a central internet
access point and multimedia tools

4. DRI Presentation
• Exchequer funded; HEA PRTLI 5, €5.2M
• Royal Irish Academy (lead), National University of
Ireland, Maynooth, National University of Ireland,
Galway, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Institute of
Technology, National College of Art and Design
• Partners: academic, cultural, social, industry
• Sep 2011 – Sep 2015
Funding

5. DRI Presentation
Preservation
Access
Sharing, linking, user tools
Cultural & Social heritage
Services

6. DRI Presentation
Local consultations
R & D
Best Practices (Irish & International)
Demonstrator Projects
Method
Repository – Preservation & Access
Guidelines & Policy
Education & Training

7. Consultation: Interviews & Advisors
DRI Presentation
Launch of National Report in Oct 2012:
Digital Archiving in Ireland: National
Survey of the Humanities and Social
Sciences
Interviewed 40 institutions to survey
their current approaches to digital data

8. Supporters / Advisors
Clare County Library
Crawford Gallery
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
Digital Humanities Observatory
Digital Research Infrastructure for
the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH)
Discovery Programme
Dublin City Archives
Dublin City University
Economic and Social Research
Institute
Health Research Board
Hunt Museum
Irish Architectural Archive
Irish Film Institute
Irish Manuscript Commission
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Irish Traditional Music Archive
Microsoft
National Archives of Ireland
National Centre for Technology in
Education
National Gallery of Ireland
National Library of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland
Oral History Network of Ireland
Raidió na Gaeltachta
RTÉ
University College Cork
University College Dublin
University of Limerick

9. Formats

10. Formats
Audio

11. Database / Where do you keep records?

12. Metadata

13. Thesauri/Vocab/Ontologies

14. DRI Presentation
driUsers
Digitisation
e-infrastructure
Preservation
Tools
Policy
Content
Shared
Services
Educational
tool
Story
telling
Platform

15. DRI Presentation
Interviews
National Practice Survey
National Steering Committee on Open Access
National Guidelines
International Organisations (DARIAH, RDA)
Policy adoption
Growing Policy

16. DRI Presentation
Demonstrator Projects

17. DRI Presentation
Prof Chris Morash & Dr John Keating, NUIM
Media Envelope
THE MEDIA ENVELOPETHE MEDIA ENVELOPE
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18. DRI Presentation
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The KerrymanThe Kerryman
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USER LOGIN // PERSONALISATIONUSER LOGIN // PERSONALISATION
Sesame StreetSesame Street
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Ireland in the EECIreland in the EEC
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Ol.Ol. Clarence the Cross-Eyed LionClarence the Cross-Eyed Lion
Three-o-One: The Sound of ...Three-o-One: The Sound of ...
NuaNua
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LANGUAGE: All LanguagesLANGUAGE: All Languages ☛☛
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The Connacht TribuneThe Connacht Tribune 5 Accused of Misleading Villagers5 Accused of Misleading Villagers
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The Irish PressThe Irish Press

19. DRI Presentation
THE MEDIA ENVELOPETHE MEDIA ENVELOPE
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Sesame StreetSesame Street
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Ireland in the EECIreland in the EEC
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Ol.Ol. Clarence the Cross-Eyed LionClarence the Cross-Eyed Lion
Three-o-One: The Sound of ...Three-o-One: The Sound of ...
NuaNua
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LANGUAGE: All LanguagesLANGUAGE: All Languages ☛☛
Tógha..Tógha.. ““The Good ..The Good .. The Y.The Y.NewNew
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Music on th..Music on th.. ßß
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2101 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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BridewellBridewell
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baby racebaby race
Official IRAOfficial IRA
adm...adm...
5 Accused of Misleading Villagers5 Accused of Misleading Villagers
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2101 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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SaSa
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IVERNIA in LondonIVERNIA in London Nora one of the first in EuropeNora one of the first in Europe
The Irish PressThe Irish Press
The KerrymanThe Kerryman
The Connacht TribuneThe Connacht Tribune

20. DRI Presentation
THE MEDIA ENVELOPETHE MEDIA ENVELOPE
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ThTh
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FriFri
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SOURCE TYPE: All SourcesSOURCE TYPE: All Sources ☛☛
15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:0015:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 230 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
2424
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1818
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Éireann)Éireann)
Radio ÉireannRadio Éireann
SEARCH FACILITYSEARCH FACILITY
---
USER LOGIN // PERSONALISATIONUSER LOGIN // PERSONALISATION
Sesame StreetSesame Street
..
Ireland in the EECIreland in the EEC
---
Ol.Ol. Clarence the Cross-Eyed LionClarence the Cross-Eyed Lion
Three-o-One: The Sound of ...Three-o-One: The Sound of ...
NuaNua
....
LANGUAGE: All LanguagesLANGUAGE: All Languages ☛☛
Tógha..Tógha.. ““The Good ..The Good .. The Y.The Y.
NewNew
ss
Music on th..Music on th.. ßß
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2101 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 ..22 ..
Tragedy Hits Holiday GroupTragedy Hits Holiday Group
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WW
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ThTh
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FriFri
SaSa
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MoMo
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Martin McGuinness held atMartin McGuinness held at
BridewellBridewell
Coombe Hospital wins theCoombe Hospital wins the
baby racebaby race
Official IRAOfficial IRA
adm...adm...
5 Accused of Misleading Villagers5 Accused of Misleading Villagers
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2101 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 ..22 ..
TuTu
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WW
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ThTh
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MoMo
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FriFri
Roads’ Row Victory for ConnemaraRoads’ Row Victory for Connemara Hurling Star Drowned while Oyster DredgingHurling Star Drowned while Oyster Dredging
SaSa
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IVERNIA in LondonIVERNIA in London Nora one of the first in EuropeNora one of the first in Europe
The Irish PressThe Irish Press
The KerrymanThe Kerryman
The Connacht TribuneThe Connacht Tribune

21. DRI Presentation
Dr. Jane Gray, IQDA
Changing life patterns in Ireland, 1900s to present
Life Stories
"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"

22. DRI Presentation
Robin Adams, TCD Library
Stained Glass Windows
Business records, ephemera
Harry Clarke 1889 to 1931

23. DRI Presentation
Dr. Seathrún Ó Tuairisg, NUIG
RTÉ RnG: 40 years broadcast history, 23K hours
Folklore gathering, béaloideas
www.joeheaney.org, Sean nós
Irish Language

24. DRI Presentation
Dr. Una Walker, NIVAL
Photographic archive
Kilkenny Design Workshops

25. DRI Presentation
Prototype of repository – OAIS model
Open Access to Metadata
DRI to mint DOIs
International Report (follows National one)
File formats – text and image
In progress: metadata taskforce, audio and
video formats, IP/copyright
Current Status (May 2013)

26. DRI Presentation
Education
Training
Outreach

27. DRI Presentation
Education
•Conferences on best practices, philosophical
approaches (RODH, Oadata)
•Hands-on skills training (Liked data, data
modelling, etc.)
•Upcoming training series
•Collaborations (e.g. CENDARI)
•Public events – e.g. Researcher’s Night curate-
a-thon

28. DRI Presentation
- How to turn a paper document into a digital one - basic steps
- How determine which metadata standards to use
- How to convert bespoke metadata into contemporary standards (how to fit
catalogue records into a metadata schema)
- What are the best file formats to use (JPEG, WAV, PDF, etc.)
- How to make digital content accessible (e.g. I've scanned it, now how to I
get it online?)
- What kind of database should I use? How about a content management
system (CMS)?
- Best platforms for sharing online
- Approaches/issues in IP and copyright
- Data modelling
- How to best store digital content - in the cloud, on a secure server, on a
USB key.
- How to preserve digital content so that it is relatively 'future-proof'
- How to exploit Linked Data for your archives
Training…what is
required?

29. DRI Presentation
Outreach
Website: www.dri.ie
Twitter
Scoop.it
DRI-Friends
EMAIL!
n.harrower@ria.ie

30. DRI Presentation
Policy Areas
* Digital curation practices
* Metadata standards
* Media formats
* Data generation and preparation for archiving
* Language issues
* Documentation
* Preservation
* Copyright/intellectual property
* Privacy, ethics, consent, anonymisation
* Access
*Re-use rights
*Sharing rights
*Termination