Presentation given by Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland, at the Nordforsk/NeGI Workshop on Implementing Open Access for Research Data, in Iceland on 14-15th August 2014.

1. Dr Sandra Collins
Director, Digital Repository of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy

2. 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

3. 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?

4. 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

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

6. DRI Platform
Access Preservation
Federated Archives, Storage
Discovery
Apps
Linked
Logainm

7. DRI user interface

8. Collections
view

9. Inspiring-ireland.ie

12. 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

13. Metadata
http://dri.ie/publications

14. 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

15. 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?

16. 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?

17. 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

18. “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 & Repositories
Irish Government Policy
http://openaccess.thehealthwell.info/sites/default/files/documents/NationalPrinciplesonOAPolicyStatement.pdf

19. 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

20. Reaffirm:
Freedom of researchers
Increase visibility and access
International interoperability
Teaching and learning
Open Innovation
National Principles for OA Policy Statement
www.oaireland.ie

21. Common approach
Re-use
Interoperability
Open Government Data
Don’t forget
Social Data
www.data.gov.ie

22. 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

23. Work Together!