Projects

WorldFAIR (launched June 2022)

DRI is leading the WorldFAIR cultural heritage case study, which seeks to explore how established image sharing practices within the sector can be more closely aligned with the FAIR principles.

EOSC Future (launched Feb 2022)

DRI is collaborating with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) on EOSC Future, an EU-funded H2020 project tasked with implementing and improving the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

OS200 (launched Aug 2021)

OS200 gathers historic Ordnance Survey (OS) maps, memoirs, name-books, and letters to form a single freely accessible online resource for academic and public use.

EnrichEuropeana+ (launched April 2021)

EnrichEuropeana+ combined citizen science and artificial intelligence to transcribe handwritten documents from the nineteenth century and make them available to researchers, students, amateur historians, and the public.

RDA4EOSC (launched Nov 2020)

The Research Data Alliance, the Digital Repository of Ireland, and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) collaborated on a project to support the internationalisation and implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Archiving Reproductive Health (Launched June 2020)

‘Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th’ (Archiving Reproductive Health) provided long-term preservation and access to the many at-risk archives generated by grassroots women’s reproductive health movements in Ireland.

Europeana Sport (launched May 2020)

Europeana Sport – Ireland’s Stories demonstrates the richness and diversity of sporting history in Ireland by collecting stories and memorabilia from fans, players, enthusiasts, past sporting heroes and heroines.

Europeana Common Culture (launched Jan 2019)

As part of Europeana Common Culture, DRI developed an aggregation service for our repository platform that allows the collections of Irish Cultural Heritage Institutes to be made visible via the Europeana platform.

RDA EU 4.0 (launched March 2018)

RDA EU 4.0 focused on the need for open and interoperable sharing of research data and on the need to build social, technical and cross-disciplinary links to enable such sharing on a global scale.

Amplifying Change (launched Aug 2017)

Amplifying Change built an openly accessible digital archive of the impact of the Atlantic Philanthropies grantees on the island of Ireland, consisting of select business records and new oral histories reflecting Atlantic’s grantmaking impact in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Frongoch and 1916 (launched Dec 2016)

‘Frongoch & 1916: Recreating a Lost Landscape’ is a series of digital exhibitions commemorating the internment of Irish prisoners at the Frongoch internment camp, Wales, in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Inspiring Ireland 1916 (launched Jan 2016)

Inspiring Ireland 1916 presents a brand new series of exhibitions of cultural artefacts, stories and interpretation that surround the events of 1916.

Inspiring Ireland Pilot Project (launched March 2014)

The Inspiring Ireland project consisted of a curated website featuring high quality images of Ireland’s treasured cultural assets. The website was also the pilot for a systematic programme in preservation, access and discovery for digital objects in Ireland’s cultural institutions.

Research Data Alliance H2020 Project (launched Sept 2015)

RDA Europe is the European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance (RDA). This project focused on engagement and support for EU participation in RDA.

CMC LINE-UP Platform (launched Jan 2015)

DRI worked with the Contemporary Music Centre to produce requirements specifications for a new Collection Management System (CMS) and Linked Data discovery platform for Irish composers’ music.

DAH Programme (launched 2014)

The Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) was a four-year (2011-2016) structured doctoral research-training programme designed to enable students to carry out research in the arts and humanities at the highest level using new media and computer technologies.

MoTIF Project (launched May 2014)

The MoTIF project created thesaurus construction guidelines and a pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore. MoTIF, the pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore, is intended to accompany the Thesaurus Construction Guidelines: An Introduction to Thesauri and Guidelines on Their Construction.

PLoT (launched Feb 2014)

The PLoT project developed methods to create personalised digital cultural heritage walking tours by building upon Insight at the National University of Ireland, Galway’s (NUIG) excellence in Linked Data and the Digital Repository of Ireland’s digital archiving expertise.

The Social Repository of Ireland (launched Jan 2014)

This project determined the feasibility of developing a richly annotated archive of social media responses to major events/topics of interest in Ireland. This project was funded under SFI’s Technology Innovation Development Award scheme.

Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913 (launched Dec 2013)

This project provided a comprehensive map of infant and maternal mortality for Dublin from 1864-1913. The project reconstructed family units and created longitudinal histories by linking records of Birth, Marriage and Death (vital registration data), generously provided by the General Register Office.

Linked Logainm: Location LODer (launched Sept 2013

The Linked Logainm project created a Linked Data version of the authoritative bilingual database of Irish place names logainm.ie. The new Linked Logainm dataset provides Irish place name data in a structured, computer-readable format.

The DRI-INSIGHT RTÉ project (launched Sept 2013

The Digital Repository of Ireland took part in an exciting project that delivered a rich content discovery service for the RTÉ Archives – enabling wider re-use of audiovisual material in RTÉ Archives.

DECIPHER / Storyscope

The Decipher project was a three-year, €4.3 million Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) supported by the European Commission. It aimed to support the discovery and exploration of cultural heritage through story and narrative. Decipher’s prototype software, Storyscope, was developed with this in mind.