DRI July Newsletter

Fáilte chuig nuachtlitir Thaisclann Dhigiteach na héireann! Tá áthas orainn an t-eolas is déanaí, nuacht agus imeachtaí na míosa seo a roinnt.

Welcome to the Digital Repository of Ireland?(DRI) newsletter! We’re delighted to share news, events, and other updates for this month.

NEWS

Launch of New Digital Archive of Ireland's Ordnance Survey

In June 1824, the first Ordnance Survey (OS) of Ireland took place. At the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), we celebrated the bicentenary of the inauguration of the early OS in Ireland with the official launch of the Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey. This archive gathers historic OS maps, memoirs, name-books, and letters in one place so that researchers and members of the public can easily access the material. The bespoke digital archive was developed in partnership with DRI as part of the collaborative research project ‘OS200: Digitally Remapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage’, which was led jointly by Dr Catherine Porter from the University of Limerick (UL) and Professor Keith Lilley from Queen's University Belfast (QUB), with funding from the We are now Research Ireland (IRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (AHRC).

DRI is Awarded a FAIR-IMPACT Grant for Sharing Data Policies in FAIRsharing

DRI has been awarded a grant to participate in a FAIR-IMPACT EU Project support action to ‘Improve the availability and machine readability of data policies with FAIRsharing’. The goal of this support action is to coordinate the registration of data policies from stakeholders in various countries/regions/domains with the FAIRsharing registry.

New Collections in DRI from Clare County Archives

Two new collections – the Scariff Board of Guardians Records and the Corporation Book of Ennis – have been published in the DRI repository by DRI members Clare County Archives.

DRI Welcomes NORF Project Manager

We are delighted to welcome Dr Chris Burbidge to the DRI team based at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) in his new role as project manager of the National Open Research Forum (NORF). In this role, Chris will support the implementation of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030.

EVENTS

Single Ingest Training, 10 Sept 2024, 10am

DRI members are invited to join DRI Training and Engagement Manager Lorraine Marrey for a hands-on online workshop where they will learn how to ingest digital objects into the DRI Repository.

Anti-SLAPP Conference, 24 Oct 2024

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are legal threats and actions brought by powerful and wealthy people against public watchdogs with the aim of silencing them. At this full-day conference organised by the Index on Censorship , attendees will hear from a wide-range of stakeholders on how SLAPPs have manifested themselves in an Irish context.

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT

Hardiman Atlas Collection

This month’s collection spotlight is the Hardiman Atlas collection deposited in the DRI repository by the Library of Trinity College Dublin. This collection?contains digital versions?of maps held in the Library of Trinity College Dublin made by George Carew (1555-1629) at the beginning of the 17th century.?The maps are?known collectively as the 'Hardiman Atlas' after their first cataloguer, James Hardiman (1782-1855), a librarian and non-historian who first catalogued them in 1821, apparently on his own initiative. The collection contains nearly 90 maps and plans and is one of the largest sets of original Tudor and early Stuart maps of Ireland surviving anywhere. They are a fantastic resource for researchers and members of the public interested in cartography.

Until next time, as always, you can keep up with our latest news on the DRI website and our Twitter account,?or follow us on Instagram.

Best wishes,

The DRI Team

Is taisclann dhigiteach iontaofa í Taisclann Dhigiteach na héireann, a sholáthraíonn caomhnú fadtéarmach agus rochtain ar shonraí daonnachtaí, oidhreachta cultúrtha agus eolaíochtaí sóisialta na héireann.

The Digital Repository of Ireland is a certified trustworthy digital repository that provides long-term preservation and access to Ireland’s humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences data.