DRI May Newsletter

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

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

News

Registration Open for DPASSH 2024

Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DPASSH) 2024, a biennial conference hosted by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), will take place from 27 to 28 June this year! It will be run in collaboration with the University of Limerick and The Hunt Museum and will explore the theme ‘Collections as Data/Data as Collections’. Join us for a lively two-day programme of national and international presentations, lightning talks, poster presentations, and hands-on workshops, as well as an engaging keynote lecture in the Hunt Museum, delivered by Coen Wilders of the Rijksmuseum. Register on the conference website!

New DRI Member: National Botanic Gardens of Ireland?

The National Botanic Gardens of Ireland has joined as our latest member. They plan to ingest the Irish Herbarium collection in the Repository to digitally preserve the dried and documented plant specimens collected in Ireland over the past two centuries.

New Collection: The Irish Stone Axe Project?

The Irish Stone Axe Project collection has been published in the Repository by DRI Members The Discovery Programme , with support from the Nowlan Digitisation Grant provided by Royal Irish Academy . The collection comprises of an image catalogue containing scaled photographs, artefact drawings, and images of petrographic thin sections for 366 stone axe heads.

DRI Launches Legacy Data Preservation Pilot Project

Our Legacy Data Preservation Pilot has launched! We're excited to work with the eight successful projects to safeguard their research collections for long-term access and discovery, with support from the Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network and funding from the Higher Education Authority in Ireland.?

Data Access Conditions Survey

Do you manage datasets that require access restrictions? Who would be allowed to access these data? Under what conditions do you grant access? ODISSEI - Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations and DANS have designed a survey to find out more about common practices in selecting and managing data access restrictions, and their underlying motivations.

The Birds of Ireland Project

The Royal Irish Academy Library has received funding from the Heritage Council of Ireland – as part of the Heritage Stewardship Fund – for their project, ‘The Birds of Ireland: Curating the Richard J. Ussher Collection at the Royal Irish Academy’. This funding will enable the long-term preservation of the material in the DRI Repository.

Deadline Extended: Born-Digital Collections, Archives, and Memory

The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, invites submissions for the inaugural Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, to be hosted at the University of London and online from 2-4 April 2025. The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, 7 June 2024.

DRI Sponsors 2024 Digital Preservation Award

DRI is proud to share that we’re the official sponsors of the 2024 Digital Preservation Award for Research and Innovation! We're looking forward to collaborating with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) to recognise excellence in practical research and innovation activities.

Irish PID Roadmap Project

MoreBrains Cooperative is working with the National Open Research Forum (NORF) to develop a national persistent identifier (PID) strategy roadmap for Ireland. PIDs enable research to be easily found and cited. NORF is hosting a series of virtual and in-person events to provide an update on the PID project.

Events

OS200 Conference, 21 June 2024

Beginning in June 1824, Ireland was the first country in the world to be surveyed and mapped at the large scale of six-inches-to-one mile. Drawing on the latest findings of a three-year research project on 'digitally remapping Ireland's Ordnance Survey heritage', the OS200 conference explores how Ireland's Ordnance Survey unfolded.

Collection Spotlight

Irish Postage Stamps?– Unadopted Designs

This month’s collection spotlight is the ‘Irish Postage Stamps – Unadopted Designs’ collection deposited in the DRI Repository by An Post Museum & Archive. Over the years, it has been the practice of the Post Office to invite submissions for possible stamp designs from artists, designers, and printers. The successful design goes on to become an issued stamp, but many of the unadopted designs are of considerable artistic and historical interest. The An Post Museum & Archive holds some of these submissions and a selection has been scanned and shared via the DRI Repository. The work of some prominent artists is represented alongside that of less well-known figures.

The featured image shows an unadopted 1949 stamp design by John (Sean) Keating for the declaration of a republic.

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

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.

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.