Digital Data SharingOpportunities and

Challenges of Opening Research

Dr. Natalie HarrowerDirector

Digital Repository of Ireland@natalieharrower

Organisations convening this panel

Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)Research Data Alliance (RDA)

Why we think this panel matters

The intelligent and charming people on this panel

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What is the Digital Repository of Ireland?

• A national Trusted Digital Repository (TDR)

• Archives, preserves, shares humanities and social sciences data

• Research centre for best practices in digital collections, metadata, digital archiving, data curation, open access, open source

• Runs several leveraged projects including Inspiring Ireland (DH/DA)

• Widely connected to European networks & initiatives

• Building capacity in research data management

What is the Research Data Alliance?

• Grassroots organisation (funded: EU, US, Australia)

• ‘to create the social and technical bridges to promote data sharing’

• Believe that sharing data makes for better research, innovation, efficiencies

• Free to join: rd-alliance.org

• Plenary conferences every 6 months: Sept 2016 in Denver; April 2017 in Barcelona

• ‘Real work’ in the interest and working groups@natalieharrower

Africa3% Asia

9%

Australasia5%

Europe48%

North America34%

South America1%

Total RDA Community Members: 4197

from 111 countries

Who is RDA?

TypeMembers

(April 2016)Press & Media 27Policy/Funding Agency 62Large Enterprise 94IT Consultancy/Development 134Small and Medium Enterprise 240Other 228Government/Public Services 657Academia/Research 2755TOTAL 4197

www.rd-alliance.org/about-rda

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www.rd-alliance.org@resdatall

Why we have convened this panel

• Sharing of data is long established in the Humanities, but the concept of ‘research data’ in humanities scholarship is less developed

• Data stewardship is particularly relevant to DH, which often deals with large datasets, qualitative data

• Humanities data is unique (or is it?)

• RDA membership has been driven by the hard sciences and life sciences; want to increase voice of Humanities

• RDA outputs speak to best practices – community driven – so let’s make sure they are relevant to work we do.

Introductions

Orla Murphy, University College Cork, Ireland• ‘The Practitioner’

• Director of the BA in Digital Humanities and Information Systems

• Coordinator of MA in Digital Arts and Humanities, and MA in Digital Cultures

• Irish National Coordinator for the DARIAH ERIC

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Introductions

Rebecca Grant, Digital Repository of Ireland• ‘The Digital Archivist’

• Professional archivist with Humanities background (previously at Irish Film Archive and an Irish visual archive)

• European co-chair of RDA Interest Group “Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data”

• PhD Student: “Managing and Archiving Research Data”

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Introductions

Martin Donnelly, Digital Curation Centre, UK• ‘The Research Data Manager’

• Senior institutional support officer

• Head of the DCC consultancy services

• Convenes Research Data Management Forum events

• Involved in EU-funded FOSTER open science training project

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Introductions

Ingrid Dillo, Data Archiving and Network Services, Netherlands• ‘The RDA Advisor’

• Deputy Director of DANS

• Member of the International Board of the Data Seal of Approval (DSA)

• Member of RDA Technical Advisory Board, co-chair of several interest groups at RDA

• Co-chair of OECD high level expert group on sustainable data repositories