Natalie Harrower - New Developments at the DRI: presentation to BISA 2014

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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

Thank you!

Contact

www.dri.ie

n.harrower@ria.ie

@dri_ireland