Do you have an academic research project website that you are concerned about keeping accessible? Do you have research notes and spreadsheets that you have been thinking about sharing, but aren’t sure how best to do that? Do you have a collection of research images that informed a publication, which are still sitting on a hard drive or local cloud storage?
If so – you are warmly invited to an open information event profiling the Digital Repository of Ireland’s (DRI) Data Preservation for Legacy Research Collections pilot on Thursday 22 February at 11.00am.
This pilot is designed to help DRI test a more open model for researcher deposit and develop appropriate support materials for DRI members working directly with researchers in their organisations.
Conditions of the pilot
- Eligibility for the pilot is limited to current and former faculty members or postgraduate researchers affiliated with Irish Higher Education Institutions or Research Performing Institutions. In circumstances where an application is made on behalf of a research project with multiple participants, the Principal Investigator (PI) must meet this eligibility criteria.
- Successful applicants should be willing to undergo a curatorial review of their data, and be prepared to make minor changes to the format or content of their dataset based on the outcome of that review in order to improve the accessibility and preservability of their work.
- Participants should be willing and available to participate in online training sessions hosted jointly with the Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network. These sessions will cover Research Data Management best practices and the DRI Repository workflow, and will take place between May and July 2024.
- Participants are required to complete the deposit process by 1 October 2024.
- Participants will be asked to provide feedback at the conclusion of the pilot.
