1. Experiences of the Digital Repository of Ireland
Kathryn Cassidy
Digital Repository of Ireland (Trinity College Dublin)

2. Digital Repository of Ireland
DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities and Social Sciences Data in Ireland, launched June 2015
Provides preservation and access to digital collections
Born digital and digitised collections including maps, photographs, letters,
audio-visual, sound, books,
oral histories, paintings..

4. What is a TDR?
“A trusted digital repository is one whose mission is to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and in the future.”
Research Libraries Group & Online Computer Library Centre 2002 report “Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities”

5. What is a TDR?
“A trusted digital repository is one whose mission is to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and in the future.”
Research Libraries Group & Online Computer Library Centre 2002 report “Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities”

6. What is a TDR?
“A trusted digital repository is one whose mission is to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and in the future.”
Research Libraries Group & Online Computer Library Centre 2002 report “Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities”

8. Ceph Storage System
Moab Versioning File packaging schema for the Archive Information Packages (AIPs)
Open-Source tools
Samvera (Hydra)
Solr
Fedora

9. DOI: /DRI.qr474f68n

10. Digital Assets
Total Files: 2.77TB

11. Metadata Standards
Total Objects: 297,841

12. Access tools Web-renderable surrogates webm/mp4 from AVI
jpg/png from Tiff
etc.
Timeline tool
Mapping
Viewers for different data types
Incorporating linked data sources to enrich the data

17. Policy

18. Policy drivers
As a greenfield site we were able to develop our repository from the start in line with best practice including
Data Seal of Approval DSA (now CoreTrustSeal)
Trusted Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist TRAC
ISO 16363
Responses available online

19. Data Seal of Approval / CoreTrustSeal
Lightweight peer-reviewed self-assessment
Extremely useful process to identify gaps in your organisation or system
Technical, policy & documentation, legal
Responses available online

20. Publications http://www.dri.ie/publications Best practice guides
Fact sheets
Reports
Academic papers
Conference presentation slides
Videos
Promotional materials
...

21. Training & Community Engagement

22. But is it FAIR*? Findable Accessible Interoperable Re-usable
Does/Can a TDR provide FAIR data management?
* DOI: /sdata

23. The TDR as part of your RDM infrastructure
Findable
DOI
Searchable index
Rich descriptive metadata
Accessible
Even with access restrictions, users must be able to find that the data exists
Open metadata
Landing page if data is removed
Standard protocols and methods to access / download metadata & data

24. The TDR as part of your RDM infrastructure
Interoperable
Use widely supported metadata and data standards, vocabularies, etc.
Re-usable
Data published with enough information for reuse
contextual information
format information
etc.
Rights and licencing information available
Information on data provenance easily available

25. The DRI as an RDM infrastructure
Findable
DOI ✔
Searchable index ✔
Rich descriptive metadata ✔
Accessible
Even with access restrictions, users must be able to find that the data exists
Open metadata ✔
Landing page if data is removed ✔
Standard protocols and methods to access / download metadata & data ✔
Interoperable
Use widely supported metadata and data standards, vocabularies, etc. ✔
Re-usable
Data published with enough information for reuse
contextual information ✔
format information ✔
etc.
Rights and licencing information available ✔
Information on data provenance easily available ✔

26. The DRI by itself is not an RDM infrastructure! :)
Most of our data is image-based, little specific support for complex data types, e.g. tabular data, databases, quantitative data, GIS
Is it FAIR if all I can find is a zipfile for download, but I can’t search within that file? How do I search on a per-row level within tabular data?
What tools are provided for interacting with quantitative data?
How can I cite a particular versioned subset of data resources?
What data formats should we support and what do we mean by support?
support should mean visualisation or interactive tools, not just download
What’s involved in Research Data Management??? esp in relation to TDRs
workflows - getting data in and out
preservation of changing data
citation of changing data
Formats to support and what do we mean by support? e.g. GIS, DBs, applications????

27. Future Directions Moving more into the RDM space
adding more complex research data types
investigating possible surrogate views of complex data, and tools for interacting with data
recently hired a Research Data Manager who will focus on this
pilot project with the Irish Digital Arts & Humanities PhD
I hope that we can report many interesting results in a year’s time!

28. Contact http://www.dri.ie/ @DRI_ireland kcassidy@tchpc.tcd.ie
@angrybunnie