PROJECTS
In addition to our core project of building the Digital Repository of Ireland, we are engaged in a growing number of collaborative projects. Here is a sample:
EUROPEANA SPORT - IRELAND’S STORIES | |
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. From May to September 2020, seven coordinating partners from across Ireland - Digital Repository of Ireland, EPIC the Irish Emigration Museum, European Expo2020, Hunt Museum, University of Limerick Conference & Sports Campus and Fethard Horse Country Experience (FHCE), in partnership with Europeana, are asking people to dig out their sporting memorabilia and contribute to a European project on the culture and history of sport. | |
EUROPEANA COMMON CULTURE | |
![]() | Launched January 2019 Europeana Common Culture aims to develop a harmonised and coordinated environment for Europeana’s national aggregators, to collaborate, share resources and technical means, and agree on common recommendations and standards. Additionally, the project will improve the quality of content and metadata to increase user satisfaction. As part of the project, the Digital Repository of Ireland will develop an aggregation service for our repository platform that will allow the collections of Irish Cultural Heritage Institutes to be made visible via the Europeana platform. We are also involved in the development of a 3D pilot application as part of this project. More information on the 3D Pilot can be found here. |
RDA EU 4.0 | |
![]() | Launched March 2018 The Digital Repository of Ireland is one of the implementers of RDA Europe 4.0, which focuses on the need for open and interoperable sharing of research data & on the need to build social, technical and cross-disciplinary links to enable such sharing on a global scale. |
Atlantic Philanthropies Archives Project | |
![]() | Launched August 2017 DRI is pleased to announce that it will house a digital archive of The Atlantic Philanthropies' granting activities in Ireland. This three-year project will make select research collections about the foundation’s approaches and impact across Ireland available online, and preserve them for persistent access. The project will also gather oral histories about grantee activity, and build digital exhibitions to enrich the Irish business records. |
Frongoch and 1916 | |
![]() | Launched December 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. Funded by the Reconciliation Fund of Ireland's Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade, the exhibitions are a collaboration between DRI and the National Libraries and National Museums of Ireland and Wales. |
Inspiring Ireland 1916 | |
![]() | Launched January 2016 Inspiring Ireland 1916 is the next phase of the multiple-award-winning cultural heritage resource Inspiring Ireland (www.inspiring-ireland.ie) It presents a brand new series of exhibitions of cultural artefacts, stories and interpretation that surround the events of 1916. Available online from January 2016, the exhibitions curate iconic national treasures alongside privately-owned memorabilia gathered at national and international collection days. |
Research Data Alliance H2020 Project | |
![]() | Launched September 2015 RDA Europe is the European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The goal of RDA is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange. This is achieved through the development, adoption, and deployment of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables. The emphasis of RDA is adoption and deployment as the result of focussed, short-term effort. RDA 3 is the third phase of RDA Europe, and DRI are funded in this phase underneath the Coordinating Support Activity (CSA) grant. |
CMC LINE-UP Platform: Linked Irish NEw mUsic Platform | |
![]() | Launched January 2015 |
DAH Programme | |
![]() | Launched 2014 The DAH is 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. The programme is a collaboration between National University of Ireland, Galway, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Queen's University Belfast, Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, and University of Ulster. DRI contributes to the programme through knowledge transfer events, co-ordination, and support. |
MoTIF Project | |
Launched May 2014 | |
Inspiring Ireland | |
![]() | Launched March 2014 Inspiring Ireland won 3 Ireland eGovernment awards in Jan 2015: Overall Winner, Promoting Ireland Overseas, and Open Source Inspiring Ireland was also a finalist in the 2014 Digital Preservation Awards. Visit the Inspiring Ireland website |
PLoT | |
![]() | Launched Feb 2014 Tourism is an important part of Ireland's economy. Tourists often explore an area with Walking Tours (WTs) - pre-recorded guided tours. Personalized WTs address the needs of individuals and increase the attractiveness of a city. The PLoT project develops methods to crreate personalised digital cultural heritage walking tours by building upon Insight at NUIG's excellence in Linked Data and the Digital Repository of Ireland's digital archiving expertise. The results complement a city's digital offers for tourists by providing adaptable, personalised solutions for its visitors, increase tourist satisfaction, and provide a addition for the tourism industry in Ireland and Worldwide. |
The Social Repository of Ireland | |
![]() | Launched January 2014 |
Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913 | |
![]() | Launched December 2013 The project aims to provide a comprehensive map of infant and maternal mortality for Dublin from 1864-1913. The project will reconstruct family units and create longitudinal histories by linking records of Birth, Marriage and Death (vital registration data), generously provided by the General Register Office. In order to link individuals, the project will create a Knowledge Platform entitled Irish Record Linkage (IRL) to enhance the research potential of individual level metadata, using best practice in Digital Archiving to facilitate the application of Linked Data technologies, and ingesting content into the Digital Repository of Ireland for long term accessibility and preservation. The application of Linked Data technologies with state of the art digital archiving, preservation and discovery technologies will allow us to interrogate this historical Big Data. See the Irish Records Linkage Project Website for more details |
The DRI-INSIGHT RTÉ project | |
![]() | Launched September 2013 |
Linked Logainm: Location LODer | |
![]() | Launched 10 September 2013 (see Press Release) |
DECIPHER / Storyscope | |
Launched January 2013 Decipher's prototype software, Storyscope, is being developed with this in mind. Using Storyscope’s workspace and tools, museum professionals and visitors can research, develop, and present stories that connect cultural objects across diverse museum collections. You can view Storyscope concept videos and interviews with Museum Professionals on Vimeo here: | |