Why write alone when you can write together?
Submitted on 3 December 2019
Natalie Harrower, Director of DRI reflects on a recent booksprint as part of a team assembled by the Digital Preservation Coalition
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DRI and the Europeana Common Culture Project
Submitted on 11 September 2019
DRI is the Irish partner in Europeana’s Common Culture Project, which aims to improve the quality of up to four million records that have been provided by national aggregators to the Europeana platform.
Preparing for Life: history and overview of a social science collection in DRI
Submitted on 15 January 2019
Blog post by Dr Ruth Geraghty, Data Curator at the Children’s Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland, on the Preparing for Life collection recently deposited in DRI by the Irish Qualitative Data Archive
Building the new Membership Model
Submitted on 14 May 2018
A blog by DRI Director Natalie Harrower on the process of building our Membership Model, first published on the DPC website
Why Storage is not Preservation: A Conversation, surrounded by Conservation
Submitted on 16 November 2017
A blog dialogue by DRI's Kathryn Cassidy @angrybunnie and Natalie Harrower @natalieharrower, set in Oxford University's Museum of Natural History
Research as Evidence: how the Boston College case exposes challenges to protecting sensitive research data
Submitted on 14 March 2017
A blog post by DRI Policy Manager Aileen O'Carroll, examining the challenges to protecting sensitive research data brought up by the Boston College case.
Developing guidelines for ISAD(G) and Encoded Archival Description
Submitted on 14 March 2017
Rebecca Grant, Digital Archivist at DRI, discusses the process of developing guidelines for ISAD(G) and Encoded Archival Description
Inspiring Ireland 1916 blog: Trenches...Hell...Biscuits: From the Rising to the battlefields of France in 1916
Submitted on 14 March 2017
From the Inspiring Ireland 1916 blog, Damien Burke looks at letters and diaries by Irish Jesuit priests working with soldiers on the WW1 front.
Inspiring Ireland 1916 blog: Bulmer Hobson, Easter's Forgotten Militant
Submitted on 14 March 2017
From the Inspiring Ireland 1916 blog, Dr Timothy G. McMarron on Bulmer Hobson, the 1916 Rising's forgotten militant
Inspiring Ireland 1916 blog: The cultural cost of 1916
Submitted on 14 March 2017
From the Inspiring Ireland 1916 blog, Dr. Kathryn Milligan on the cultural cost of the 1916 Rising.