Our Focus on Training and Education

Digital preservation is an ongoing process that benefits from shared standards and evolving best practice, and as a hub for international best practice, the Digital Repository of Ireland team is committed to ensuring that DRI members are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to play their part in providing sustained access to digital objects. 

The DRI is committed to ensuring that staff engage in continuous professional development; all DRI staff have completed the Hibernian Training Delivery and Evaluation Course QQI Level 6 or hold an equivalent training qualification in higher education.

What We Provide

We provide an expert training programme for DRI members to ensure collections are prepared and ready for ingest into the Repository, we also offer valuable training on other topics of interest in the areas of digital preservation, open research, research data management, and digital archiving.

We also organise regular educational events such as workshops, seminars, and talks that illustrate the richness of member collections and instruct end users in how to find and use them. We organise outreach or engagement events in collaboration with other institutions. We also offer a wealth of online training resources and publications. 

We also welcome DRI members and our wider communities to engage with the DRI Early Career Research Award. This Award was launched in 2019 and grants a prize for an original piece of research (e.g. research done for master’s or PhD thesis, article or publication) informed in whole, or in part, by objects/collections deposited in DRI.

Contact DRI about Training and Education

We encourage all DRI members to join our introductory training workshops and live assistance sessions, which offer opportunities to ask questions. Outside of those sessions we also welcome members to get in touch with any questions.

Please send any questions relating to digital archiving and data preparation and ingest to DRI’s Digital Archivist Team at driarchivist@ria.ie

We endeavour to reply to questions as quickly as possible, within our working hours.