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Digital Preservation &
Humanities &
Social SciencesHarry Clarke Symposium 2015.02.06
Dr. Natalie Harrower
Manager of Education &Outreach
@natalieharrower
Digital Repository of Ireland & HSS data
What’s interesting about digital collections?
Why do we need digital repositories?
What is the Digital Repository of Ireland?
DRI is an interactive, national trusted digital
repository for contemporary and historical, social
and cultural data held by Irish institutions.
• images, sound,
audio/video, text...
• visual art, broadcast
footage, oral history
recordings, business
records, letters…
RIA (lead), NUIM, TCD, DIT, NUIG, NCAD
Core Grant: HEA PRTLI 5, €5.2M
Started Sep 2011
Public Launch at DPASSH: June 25, 2015
Funded Partnerships: diversified funding to 2019
Who are we? How are we funded?
Digital Preservation
Data Discovery
Access & Curation
Narratives, Visualisation
How do we do it?
Robust TDR Infrastructure
Policy and Advocacy
Education and Outreach
Projects and Partnerships
What do we do?
Digital Repository of Ireland & HSS data
What’s interesting about digital collections?
Why do we need digital repositories?
COLLECTING
BODY OF OBJECTS
MATERIAL DIGITAL
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Walter BenjaminThe Work of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction
• Art has always been reproducible
• But: Mechanical means accelerates pace & possibilities
• Lacks the “aura” of the original
• But mechanical reproduction can also provide new things:
• Naked Eye ++
• Mobility and Access
(1936)
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is
lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its
unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
The Work of Art in the Age of
Digital Reproduction
The Work of Art in the Age of
Digital Reproduction
The Work of Art in the Age of
Digital Reproduction
The Work of Art in the Age of
Digital Reproduction
• Put of copy of the original into places that would be out of
reach of the original itself:
• Rijksmuseum – 130,000
• Metropolitan Museum of Art – 400,000
• More of a collection on display
• Enhance visitor experience through interactive exhibits
• Allow visitors to explore on their own terms
• Cooper-Hewitt Nat’l Design Museum – digital stylus
Visits to GLAMs increasing
Digital Repository of Ireland & HSS data
What’s interesting about digital collections?
Why do we need digital repositories?
Short Answer:
Sustained
Trusted
Preservation
Access
What is Digital Preservation?
Backing up your files?
“Active management of digital content over time
to ensure its ongoing access”
What is Digital Preservation?
Backing up your files?
“Active management of digital content over time
to ensure its ongoing access”
Plan
Trusted Digital Repository
Ongoing Access
User Tools
Interacting with art…
Collaborative Project between DRI, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Minister Jimmy Deenihan), and the following NCIs:
• National Gallery of Ireland
• National Archives of Ireland
• National Library of Ireland
• National Museum of Ireland
• Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Abbey Theatre
• Crawford Gallery Cork
• Chester Beatty Library
• Online portal to Ireland’s Digital Cultural Assets (GLAMs)
• Built on DRI’s preservation infrastructure
• Community building
• Curated with an eye to national and international interest/visibility
• Speaks to ideas of Ireland as a rich culture with a compelling and rich history
• Important service for Ireland socially and culturally
• Part of a systematic approach to digital preservation, discovery & access
The Videohttps://vimeo.com/89125000
