Presentation given by DRI Director Dr Natalie Harrower on 15 July 2016, opening panel 'Digital Data Sharing: Opportunities and Challenges of Opening Research' at Digital Humanities 2016 conference, Krakow, Poland.
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Natalie Harrower - Digital Data Sharing (DH2016)
1. Digital Data Sharing
Opportunities and Challenges of
Opening Research
Dr. Natalie Harrower
Director
Digital Repository of Ireland
@natalieharrower
2. Organisations convening this panel
Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)
Research Data Alliance (RDA)
Why we think this panel matters
The intelligent and charming people on
this panel
@natalieharrower
3. What is the Digital Repository of Ireland?
• A national Trusted Digital Repository (TDR)
• Archives, preserves, shares humanities and social
sciences data
• Research centre for best practices in digital collections,
metadata, digital archiving, data curation, open access,
open source
• Runs several leveraged projects including Inspiring Ireland
(DH/DA)
• Widely connected to European networks & initiatives
• Building capacity in research data management
4. What is the Research Data Alliance?
• Grassroots organisation (funded: EU, US, Australia)
• ‘to create the social and technical bridges to promote data
sharing’
• Believe that sharing data makes for better research,
innovation, efficiencies
• Free to join: rd-alliance.org
• Plenary conferences every 6 months: Sept 2016 in Denver;
April 2017 in Barcelona
• ‘Real work’ in the interest and working groups
@natalieharrower
5. Africa
3% Asia
9%
Australasia
5%
Europe
48%
North America
34%
South America
1%
Total RDA Community Members: 4197
from 111 countries
Who is RDA?
Type
Members
(April 2016)
Press & Media 27
Policy/Funding Agency 62
Large Enterprise 94
IT Consultancy/Development 134
Small and Medium Enterprise 240
Other 228
Government/Public Services 657
Academia/Research 2755
TOTAL 4197
www.rd-alliance.org/about-rda
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@resdatall
6. Why we have convened this panel
• Sharing of data is long established in the Humanities, but
the concept of ‘research data’ in humanities scholarship
is less developed
• Data stewardship is particularly relevant to DH, which
often deals with large datasets, qualitative data
• Humanities data is unique (or is it?)
• RDA membership has been driven by the hard sciences
and life sciences; want to increase voice of Humanities
• RDA outputs speak to best practices – community driven
– so let’s make sure they are relevant to work we do.
7. Introductions
Orla Murphy, University College Cork, Ireland
• ‘The Practitioner’
• Director of the BA in Digital Humanities and Information
Systems
• Coordinator of MA in Digital Arts and Humanities, and MA in
Digital Cultures
• Irish National Coordinator for the DARIAH ERIC
@natalieharrower
8. Introductions
Rebecca Grant, Digital Repository of Ireland
• ‘The Digital Archivist’
• Professional archivist with Humanities background
(previously at Irish Film Archive and an Irish visual archive)
• European co-chair of RDA Interest Group “Archives and
Records Professionals for Research Data”
• PhD Student: “Managing and Archiving Research Data”
@natalieharrower
9. Introductions
Martin Donnelly, Digital Curation Centre, UK
• ‘The Research Data Manager’
• Senior institutional support officer
• Head of the DCC consultancy services
• Convenes Research Data Management Forum events
• Involved in EU-funded FOSTER open science training
project
@natalieharrower
10. Introductions
Ingrid Dillo, Data Archiving and Network Services,
Netherlands
• ‘The RDA Advisor’
• Deputy Director of DANS
• Member of the International Board of the Data Seal of
Approval (DSA)
• Member of RDA Technical Advisory Board, co-chair of
several interest groups at RDA
• Co-chair of OECD high level expert group on sustainable
data repositories