Institution: Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy
Research Interests: Digital Archiving, Digital Cultural Heritage, Metadata Standards, Interoperability, FAIR data, Digital Sustainability, Digital Humanities
Qualifications: BA (Hons), PGDipLIS, Certified IPMA, MSc (Information & Knowledge Management), MA (Digital Arts and Humanities)
Contact: j.murphy@ria.ie
Profile
Joan Murphy is a research associate at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) where she is working on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Future project, an EU-funded initiative to give European researchers wide access to FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data and related services. Joan is also contributing to the WorldFAIR project which aims to advance the implementation of the FAIR principles to improve the interoperability and reusability of digital research objects, including data, with a particular focus on how long-standing image sharing practices and networks in the cultural heritage sector could be more closely aligned with the FAIR principles to engage and support researchers across the eleven disciplines of the WorldFAIR project.
Joan is an information professional with almost 30 years of experience in digital libraries and archives, working in and across archival, technical and business domains and dealing with the real-world challenges of interoperability, standards and workflows from multiple perspectives. She is a qualified librarian and project manager with extensive experience in the audio-visual domain having worked for many years in RTÉ in various roles including Sound Archivist, Metadata Specialist and Business Process Manager. She represented RTÉ on a number of (European Broadcasting Union) EBU metadata working groups during her time there.
