Dr Sandra CollinsDirector, Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy

Digital Repository of Ireland

DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Data

- sharing, linking and preserving Irish data online

- Our Cultural & Social Heritage

Digital Preservation

Data Discovery

Access & Curation

Narratives, Visualisation

Open Data without Curation is of limited use:

You can’t find it, and you can’t understand it!

What do we do?

Digital Preservation

Active Management for access to digital content

Policies + strategies + actions + technology = Accurate rendering of reformatted and born digital content – regardless of digital obsolescence over time

OA without preservation is OA for a limited time

Multi-disciplinary Team:software engineers, designers, social scientists, humanities, archivists, librarians, policy, Irish language, education & outreach, legal

DRI Platform

Access Preservation

Federated Archives, Storage

Discovery

Apps Linked Logainm

DRI user interface

Collectionsview

Inspiring-ireland.ie

Objects injested into Fedora Commons

Use the Solrizer gem to create the Solr index

Object metadata all CC0 / CC-BY

Search will return metadata on all records

Authorization system can restrict access to the objects

Multi-lingual data (English and Irish at the moment)

Indices for each language

Search setup

Metadata

http://dri.ie/publications

Digital Preservation – trusted repository

Clarity on rights, licensing, data protection

Open metadata, open access

Data citation, Persistent Identifiers

Recognition: staff, metrics, funding, costs

Community working together – share expertise & costs

Sustained e-infrastructure

Costs for data curation & archiving

Policy, Services, Systems → Practice

Best Data Practice

Principled argument

Results of publicly funded research should be publicly available

OA enables research findings to be shared with the wider public, creating a knowledge economy with better informed citizens

OA enhances knowledge transfer to sectors that can directly use knowledge to produce better goods and services

Why is OA important?

Pragmatic argument

Improves research efficiency

Enables reuse of research outputs

Provides the basis for better research monitoring and evaluation

Preservation of research outputs ensures our cultural heritage is protected and curated

Scientific outputs are kept in formats that ensures they are permanently usable and accessible

Why is OA important?

Lack of credit or citation

Labour involved

Risk of misuse or misinterpretation

Control of IP, copyright

Data protection (humans, endangered species)

Lack of demand

Lack of incentive in career progression, funding

Competition

Address the Reasons for Not Sharing

“Coordinate activities and combine expertise at a national level to promote unrestricted, online access to outputs

which result from research that is wholly or partially funded by the State”

National Steering Committee on Open Access Policy

Funders, Researchers, Libraries & RepositoriesIrish Government Policy

http://openaccess.thehealthwell.info/sites/default/files/documents/NationalPrinciplesonOAPolicyStatement.pdf

1. Broaden infrastructure coverage beyond universities

2. Increase number of publicly funded publications made available GREEN

3. Use OA to develop a national picture – funding acknowledgements & value-added metrics

4. Promote OA to underlying research data and materials

5. Develop sustainable long-term solutions

Phased Approach

Reaffirm:

Freedom of researchers

Increase visibility and access

International interoperability

Teaching and learning

Open Innovation

National Principles for OA Policy Statement

www.oaireland.ie

Common approach

Re-use

Interoperability

Open Government Data

Don’t forget

Social Data

www.data.gov.ie

1. Ask in reporting

2. Promote good examples

3. Allowable Costs for data curation & archiving

4. Sustained Repository Services

5. Training

6. Enforce Archiving

Funders

http://www.nature.com/news/irish-university-labs-face-external-audits-1.15422

Work Together!