The document discusses the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), which preserves and provides access to humanities and social sciences research data from Ireland. DRI curates data to ensure it can be found, understood, and accessed over time regardless of digital obsolescence. It has a multi-disciplinary team and collects data from various sources using open standards to make the data discoverable, accessible, and preserved for both current and future use. The DRI aims to make research outputs openly available in line with national open access policies.

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

2. Digital Repository of Ireland
DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Data - sharing, linking and preserving Irish data online - Our Cultural & Social Heritage

3. Digital Preservation Data Discovery Access & Curation Narratives, Visualisation Open Data without Curation is of limited use: You can’t find it, and you can’t understand it!
What do we do?

4. Digital Preservation
Active Management for access to digital content
Policies + strategies + actions + technology =
Accurate rendering of reformatted and born digital content – regardless of digital obsolescence over time
OA without preservation is OA for a limited time

5. Multi-disciplinary Team:
software engineers, designers, social scientists, humanities, archivists, librarians, policy, Irish language, education & outreach, legal

6. DRI Platform
Access
Preservation
Federated Archives, Storage
Discovery
Apps
Linked Logainm

7. DRI user interface

8. Collections
view

9. Inspiring-ireland.ie

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

13. Metadata
http://dri.ie/publications

14. Digital Preservation – trusted repository Clarity on rights, licensing, data protection Open metadata, open access Data citation, Persistent Identifiers Recognition: staff, metrics, funding, costs Community working together – share expertise & costs Sustained e-infrastructure Costs for data curation & archiving Policy, Services, Systems → Practice
Best Data Practice

15. Principled argument Results of publicly funded research should be publicly available OA enables research findings to be shared with the wider public, creating a knowledge economy with better informed citizens OA enhances knowledge transfer to sectors that can directly use knowledge to produce better goods and services
Why is OA important?

16. Pragmatic argument Improves research efficiency Enables reuse of research outputs Provides the basis for better research monitoring and evaluation Preservation of research outputs ensures our cultural heritage is protected and curated Scientific outputs are kept in formats that ensures they are permanently usable and accessible
Why is OA important?

17. Lack of credit or citation Labour involved Risk of misuse or misinterpretation Control of IP, copyright Data protection (humans, endangered species) Lack of demand Lack of incentive in career progression, funding Competition
Address the Reasons for Not Sharing

18. “Coordinate activities and combine expertise at a national level to promote unrestricted, online access to outputs which result from research that is wholly or partially funded by the State”
National Steering Committee on Open Access Policy
Funders, Researchers, Libraries & Repositories Irish Government Policy
http://openaccess.thehealthwell.info/sites/default/files/documents/NationalPrinciplesonOAPolicyStatement.pdf

19. 1.Broaden infrastructure coverage beyond universities
2.Increase number of publicly funded publications made available GREEN
3.Use OA to develop a national picture – funding acknowledgements & value-added metrics
4.Promote OA to underlying research data and materials
5.Develop sustainable long-term solutions
Phased Approach
International
National
Organisation

20. Reaffirm: Freedom of researchers Increase visibility and access International interoperability Teaching and learning Open Innovation
National Principles for OA Policy Statement
www.oaireland.ie

21. Common approach Re-use Interoperability
Open Government Data
Don’t forget Social Data
www.data.gov.ie

22. 1.Ask in reporting
2.Promote good examples
3.Allowable Costs for data curation & archiving
4.Sustained Repository Services
5.Training
6.Enforce Archiving
Funders
http://www.nature.com/news/irish-university-labs-face-external-audits-1.15422

23. Work Together!