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!