DRI October 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

DRI Community Archive Scheme Wins Ireland eGovernment Award 2024

We are delighted to share that the Digital Repository of Ireland’s (DRI) Community Archive Scheme was awarded an Ireland eGovernment Award 2024 in the Open Data Category at the 21st Ireland eGovernment Digital Awards and Summit, which took place on Thursday 19 Sept 2024. Launched in 2019, the DRI Community Archive Scheme offers free DRI Associate Membership and bespoke digital preservation training and support to under-resourced community archivists and community groups. Its aim is to acknowledge the significant work of community archivists and to empower and support them in curating, preserving, and sharing their own stories in an open access format.

Animal Woman Journey(s)

A new collection – Animal Woman Journey(s) – has been published in the Repository by University College Cork . This collection showcases folktales reimagined through performance practice.

Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities

The Irish Qualitative Data Archive has published a collection of community engagement interviews in the DRI Repository. These interviews were conducted as part of the Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities collaborative research project, which aimed to create a more inclusive digital cultural heritage in digital humanities.

DRI Supports Research and Innovation

DRI was the proud sponsor of the Digital Preservation Award 2024 for Research and Innovation at this year’s annual Digital Preservation Awards. The Award was presented to the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), which holds records from 1,370 small languages mainly from the Pacific.

DRI Citation Policy 2024

Learn about the new citation style used by DRI for digital cultural heritage objects, which was developed following the Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Recommendations produced by the WorldFAIR Project’s Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Working Group.

Update on DRI's EDI Policy Progress

It's been one year since the DRI?launched our first Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Policy! In a new blog, we report on our progress in implementing the actions outlined in the Policy.

Legacy Data Preservation Pilot Collections Published

We are delighted to share collections published through the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot, a new initiative launched by DRI in 2024, in collaboration with the Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network , to support researchers in preserving their legacy research data.

EVENTS

DRI Member Training: Batch Ingest, 23?Oct 2024

DRI Members are invited to join DRI Deputy Digital Archivist Noelia Romero and Training and Engagement Manager Lorraine Marrey for an online training webinar on using the DRI Metadata template and completing a batch ingest to the 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, attendees will hear from stakeholders on how SLAPPs have manifested themselves in an Irish context.

DRI Coffee Morning, World Digital Preservation Day, 7 Nov?2024

Join DRI at the Royal Irish Academy on 7 Nov for an in-person celebration of World Digital Preservation Day,?when we? celebrate all things digital preservation!

Creating Inclusive Digital Collections, 26 Nov?2024

Join DRI for an online training event on Tuesday 26 Nov at 15:00 GMT to learn about inclusive approaches to describing digital cultural heritage collections. This event is aimed at digital archivists, cultural heritage professionals, community archivists, curators, librarians, and all those interested in learning more about enriching archives through community engagement and inclusive approaches to creating metadata.

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT

Dublin-based Community Films by Joe Lee

This month’s collection spotlight is ‘Dublin-based Community Films by Joe Lee’, which was published in the DRI repository by filmmaker Joe Lee through the support of the DRI Community Archive Scheme. Beginning in the early 2000s, Joe has made a series of community-based films set in Dublin neighbourhoods that present a unique insight into the social history of the city from the 1980s onwards. These projects include: Dreams in the Dark (2002), Dark Room (2002), Inside Out Outside In Stories from O’Devaney Gardens (2007), Bananas On The Breadboard (2010), Citywide (2011), The Area (2012), Fortune’s Wheel (2015) and Barracks Square Estate (2017). The eight community-based films in Joe’s collection offer an important social and cultural history of Dublin and are especially relevant in terms of providing a record of oral histories of working-class Dublin communities.

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.