Presentation given by Dr Natalie Harrower, Director of Digital Repository of Ireland at the 2017 DRI Community Forum, welcoming participating stakeholders and other attendees and providing an overview of the day.

1. Dr. Natalie Harrower
Director, Digital Repository of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy
DRI Community Forum – 24 July 2017

2. 9.30 Welcome and DRI Updates (Natalie Harrower, DRI Director)
10.00 Training Initiatives & Upcoming Events (Clare Lanigan, DRI Education and
Outreach manager)
10.15 Repository Technical Updates (Stuart Kenny, DRI Software Engineer)
10.30 Forthcoming Publications (Kevin Long, DRI Digital Archivist)
10.45 Repository Reports (Kathryn Cassidy, DRI Software Engineer)
11.00 New Collections Case Studies (Rónán Swan, Head of Archaeology &
Heritage, Transport Infrastructure Ireland)
11.15 Coffee/Tea Break
11.45 Breakout sessions: Building Capacity for Digital
Archiving and Preservation in Ireland
12.15 Breakout Groups Report back
12.45 Closing words

3. Funding Update
• Initial Funding: PRTLI Cycle 5 Project Funding 2011-
2015
• Building the infrastructure & supports
• Launched June 2015
• First half of 2016: DRI Future Funding Forum
• Letters of Support from Stakeholders
• Success!
• Department of Education and Skills:
HEA & Irish Research Council
• Government Estimates
• Service Level Agreement (SLA)

4. DRI Core Costs: Income Streams
• Direct state funding ~70%
• Leveraged research project grants 23%
• Membership Fees 5%
• Other (consulting, data prep) 2%

5. Transitions: Income & Staffing
• From research project to live national infrastructure
• From project-limited funding to inclusion in the government
estimates
• Smaller core complement of staff at RIA, TCD, MU
• Priorities: HSS data; research data; government data
• Retention of core areas of work:
• Repository Services for LTP
• Education, Outreach, Training
• Research, publications, engagement with best practice
• National networking, advocacy, ‘common voice’,
community building, policy input, international
connections

6. • From research project to live national infrastructure
• From project-limited funding to inclusion in the government
estimates
• Smaller core complement of staff at RIA, TCD, MU
• Priorities: HSS data; research data; government data
• Retention of core areas of work:
• Repository Services for LTP
• Education, Outreach, Training
• Research, publications, engagement with best practice
• National networking, advocacy, ‘common voice’,
community building, policy input, international
connections
Transitions: Income & Staffing

7. Recent Leveraged Projects
Concluded
• Inspiring Ireland 1916: Weaving Public and Private
Narratives; public collection days, embassy events
• Frongoch and 1916: Recreating a Lost Landscape
(Shortlisted for e-Gov award; Welsh partners)
• Partner in DAH PHD PRTLI consortium
• Collaboration continues on legacy RD archive project
Continuing
• H2020 - RDA European Activities (RDA3) to Feb 2018
• Contribute to E&O, HSS domains, policy
• H2020 for RDA4 submitted; start Feb 2018
• Major new project with AP, Cornell and others
• 3 years – digital archive, exhibitions, events

8. Education & Outreach – Select events
2016
Feb 1: DRI Training: ‘Organising Your Collection.’ Royal Irish Academy
Mar 9: Introduction to EAD, co-hosted with Archives & Records Association
Mar 15: DRI Training: ‘Digitising Your Collection.’ Royal Irish Academy.
Mar 19: Inspiring Ireland international collection day, Embassy of Ireland, London.
Mar 28: Inspiring Ireland talks at 'Reflecting the Rising', RTÉ's series of 1916-related public events.
Apr 15: DRI Training: ‘Understanding Copyright.’ Royal Irish Academy.
April 17: Inspiring Ireland international collection day, Glucksman Ireland House, New York.
May 11: DRI Training: ‘Metadata and XML.’ Royal Irish Academy.
June 1-3: Archiving Tomorrow conference, Royal Irish Academy.
June 27-28: Health Research Board Open Science Event, co-organised by HRB, DRI/ALLEA e-Humanities WG
July 12: Digital Humanities 2016 conference – Research Data for Humanities Scholar, Krakow.
July 17: Inspiring Ireland discussion panel at Galway International Arts Festival, NUI Galway
Sep 7: DRI / DAH co-hosted seminar with Marsh's Library ‘Reading Renaissance Marginalia’, Royal Irish Academy
Oct 10: DRI Training ‘Preparing your Collection for DRI” University College Cork
Oct 28: Repository Network of Ireland and DRI co-host a Teachmeet during Open Access Week, RIA
Nov 18: Digital Arts and Humanities PhD Digital Conference, Trinity College Dublin.
2017
Feb 27: DRI Training Workshop – ‘Adding your collection to DRI’, Royal Irish Academy
June: New integrated DRI website launched
June 14-15: DPASSH at Sussex U in Brighton
Near future: More DRI Training and a series of Wikimedia event collaborations

9. National Engagement
• Innovation 2020 Consultations (4.7)
• Culture 2025 Consultations
• DJEI National Open Research Forum (Sept 2017 RDA event)
• Film Heritage Advisory Council report
• UCD iSchool (SICS) ‘service learning’ collaboration
• BAI projects support – guidelines and workshops, eg. Near FM, GAA
• DARIAH Ireland Steering Group
• Insight Centre for Data Analytics
• Support to National Archives of Ireland in Electronic Government Records
• Research Data Archiving Project with DAH Collaborators

10. International Engagement
• OECD Global Science Forum: Sustainable Business Models for Data Repositories
• Open Repositories 2016 (TCD HPC hosts)
• PASIG 2017 Programme Committee (Sept 2017, Oxford)
• Hydra/Samvera Official Partners
• ALLEA e-Humanities Working Group
• Scientific Committee, AGATE Project (ALLEA supported)
• Digital Preservation Coalition, Comms & Advocacy Committee
• Research Data Alliance Europe Project
• Addresses to Embassies in New York and London
• DPASSH 2017 at Sussex University (June 2017)
• Hosted first EOSC Chair national visit event (Barend Mons, June 2016)

11. Transitions Continued: Governance
• From research project to live national infrastructure
• Required a commensurate shift in Governance
• Dissolved original Management Board April 2017
• Call for nominations to new Board – open to DRI
Members
• Appointed 8 new DRI Board members June 2017
• Coverage across Higher Education, Cultural Institutions,
Government Funders, State Agencies
• Gender balance
• DRI Director and RIA CEO are members ex officio

12. The Board of the Digital Repository of Ireland
Peter Brown
Director
Irish Research Council
Sandra Collins
Director
National Library
Peter Kennedy
President
Royal Irish Academy
Rob Kitchin
Professor
Maynooth University

13. The Board of the Digital Repository of Ireland
Múirne Laffan
Chief Digital Officer
RTÉ
Orla Murphy
Digital Humanities, UCC
DARIAH Ireland
John McDonough
Director
National Archives
Jane Ohlmeyer
Director
Irish Research Council

14. Transitions Continued: Membership
Membership fees are an element of agreed business model (5%)
Focus on value & keeping fees affordable
Two tiers: Full and Associate

15. Benefits of Membership
• Long term trusted digital preservation
• Data publication, dissemination, discovery, access analytics
• Staff training, development, clinics, hands-on
• Policy briefings, ‘brown-bag’ seminars, conferences
• Networking, strategy advice, ‘common-voice’ advocacy, policy
input, joint funding applications, project collaborations, Board
eligibility, contribution to taskforces
. . . What do YOU want to see here?

16. Abbey Theatre
An Foras Feasa
Contemporary Music Centre
Crawford Art Gallery Cork
Discovery Programme
Dublin City Library & Archives
Irish Capuchin Provincial Archives
Irish Historic Towns Atlas
Irish Qualitative Data Archive
Maynooth University Library
National Archives of Ireland
National College of Art and Design
National Library of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland
National University of Ireland, Galway
Oidhreacht an Chlair Teo
Project Arts Centre
Royal Irish Academy Library
Royal Irish Academy Publications
RTÉ Archives
Trinity College Dublin
University College Cork
Current DRI Members