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1 Natalie Harrower The Importance of Trusted Digital Preservation (for Humanities Data) 1 st International Workshop on Computational History June 27, 2014 Natalie Harrower Education & Outreach

2 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

3 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

4 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?

5 DRI Repository Preview – 14 May 2014 Pilot version launched to a small group of stakeholders last month. Public launch this fall Currently have 18 collections from 15 institutions File formats include image, text, audio Content: artwork, scripts, radio, music, reports, manifestos, war posters, interviews, Irish language Ability to browse, search, view collections, objects, all metadata, download objects (depends on license)

6 DRI: Connecting with the Community Education & Outreach (Events & Dissemination) Partnerships Collaborative Projects DRI Core Big Data Industry Academics Libraries Archives Cultural Institutions Custodians of social data App Developers Community Interest

7 Why Digital Preservation?

8 Archiving brings order and discoverability Preservation for long-term accessibility Ability to share data = unexpected discoveries, research reproducibility, cost savings Enables links between data sets Facilitates data-driven humanities research Why Digital Preservation?

9 “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” Why a Trusted Digital Repository?

10 Key Aspects of Trust a.Authenticity & Provenance b.Attention to Standards and Quality of data c.Formal Agreements & Procedures d.Data Security & Access Authentication

11 Sample Projects/Partnerships Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913: vital registration data MoTIF: Pilot Thesaurus on Irish Folklore (with NLI) 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) Research Data Alliance, DARIAH, Digital Preservation Coalition

12 Thank you! Contact www.dri.ie n.harrower@ria.ie @dri_ireland


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