The document summarizes the mission and activities of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). DRI aims to preserve and provide access to humanities and social sciences data from Irish institutions through a central online access point. It links and preserves various cultural and social heritage data. DRI utilizes an open-source platform with federated archives and storage to allow for digital preservation, access, and discovery of data. It is working to establish national guidelines and policies around research data management in Ireland.

1. Dr Sandra Collins
Director, Digital Repository of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy

2. Mission
DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities
and Social Sciences Data
- linking and preserving the rich data held by Irish
institutions, with a central internet access point
- Our Cultural & Social Heritage

3. App
App
Linked
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DRI Platform
Access
Preservation
Discovery
Federated Archives, Storage

4. Growing Digital Preservation & Access Policy
Interviews
National Practice Survey
National Steering Committee
National Guidelines
Government adoption
www.oaireland.ie

5. Metadata

6. Formats

7. Global Good Data Practice
Digital Preservation
Data citation, Permanent IDs
Metrics, funding, allowable costs, training
Sustained e-infrastructure
Copyright, IPR, licensing, data protection
Open metadata, open access
Research Data Alliance 2014
Policy, Services, Systems → Practice

8. Repository
Open source components, custom code engineering

9. OAIS Model

11. Search setup
Objects injested into Fedora Commons
Use the Solrizer gem to create the Solr index
Object metadata all CC0
Search will return metadata on all records
Authorization system will restrict access to the objects
Multi-lingual data (English and Irish at the moment)
Indices for each language

12. User Access
Primarily through the blacklight search interface
Other routes
• Curated collections and virtual galleries
• Georeferenced data – mapping
• Temporal data – timelines
• User defined collections
• DOI references in papers

14. DRI Presentation

16. 200RESEARCHERS
74MEURO 30PARTNERS
40INVESTIGATORS 8INSTITUTIONS
1CENTRE!

17. 7X RESEARCH
STRANDS
Work Packages
Linked
Data
Personal
Sensing
Media
Analytics
Recommender Decision
Systems
Analytics
Semantic Web
Reasoning

18. Goal of Archive Discovery Project
Linked data based discovery platform
Across multiple RTE Archives, media formats
Enhanced data discovery and delivery
Enhanced workflows, digital practices, tools
Digital Preservation, discovery and access

19. Two Key Ingredients
1. RDF – Resource Description Framework
Graph based Data – nodes and arcs
– Identifies objects (URIs)
– Interlink information (Relationships)
1. Vocabularies (Ontologies)
– provide shared understanding of a domain
– organise knowledge in a machinecomprehensible way
– give an exploitable meaning to the data

20. Linked Open Data cloud
UK government
Media
User-generated
Government
BBC
Publications
Cross-domain
Geo
Life sciences
Over 200 open data sets with more than 26 billion facts,
interlinked by 400 million typed links, doubling every 10 month!
LinkedGeoData

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Data & System survey
Architecture Specification
Selection of Pilot Data
Retrieval and transformation of data
Setup & integration of the metadata repository
Metadata enhancement
Implementation of content discovery
Classification & evaluation of discovery content
Demonstrator
Performance KPIs
Enhanced workflows for content processing

22. Schematic Overview
Complex systems, customised software, grown and
adapted over time and use

23. Authorisation
Public user Academic RTÉ
RTÉ
researcher researcher journalist
RTÉ
Archivist
RTÉ Archives
administrator
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24. OUTCOMES FOR RTÉ

25. OUTCOMES FOR RTÉ
Pilot
Pilot
discovery
discovery
platform
platform
for all
for all
media
media
formats
formats
Enabling cross-Institutional, cross-collection curation