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

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

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?

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

Multi-disciplinary Team:

software engineers,

designers, social

scientists, humanities,

archivists, librarians,

policy, Irish language,

education & outreach,

legal

DRI Platform

Access Preservation

Federated Archives, Storage

Discovery

Apps Linked Logainm

DRI user interface

Collections

view

Inspiring-ireland.ie

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

Metadata

http://dri.ie/publications

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

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?

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?

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

“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

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

Reaffirm:

Freedom of researchers

Increase visibility and access

International interoperability

Teaching and learning

Open Innovation

National Principles for OA Policy Statement

www.oaireland.ie

Common approach

Re-use

Interoperability

Open Government Data

Don’t forget

Social Data

www.data.gov.ie

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

Work Together!