Jey ONeill Catherine Ryan DRI Data Curator Digital Librarian, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Catherine Ryan Digital Librarian, Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy c.ryan@ria.ie www.dri.ie Jey O’Neill DRI Data Curator Trinity College Dublin joneill@tchpc.tcd.ie www.tcd.ie

Outline

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• Introduction to DRI
• Key projects
• Focus on skills
• Core skills
• Technology
• Subject headings
• Research, writing & communication

Mission

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DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities and Social Sciences Data DRI links and preserves the rich data held by Irish institutions, providing a central access point and multimedia tools

Structure

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• Exchequer funded; HEA PRTLI 5, €5.2M
• RIA (lead), TCD, NUIM, DIT, NUIG, NCAD
• Team of 36 people across 6 sites
• Partners: cultural, academic, social, industry
• Sep 2011 – Sep 2015

DRI Data Curator

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• B.A. (Mod) Computer Science, Linguistics &

French (2004), Trinity College Dublin

• Masters in Library & Information Studies

(2013), UCD

• Currently DRI Data Curator, Trinity College

Dublin

• Incessant Tweeter @jenbeardublin

Data Curator

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This positio ill iole assembling and curating diverse data sets from the humanities and social sciences for ingestion into the Digital Repository of Irelad

But also…

• Workflows & Metadata

taskforces

• Linked data factsheet
• Metadata guidelines for

MARC

• Feature champion for

Ingestion

• Document owner

Infrastructure Report

• Writing articles

1641 Depositions

http://1641.tcd.ie/

The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion.

• Digitised images of the Depostions (TIFF)
• Transcriptions encoded in TEI (XML)

Tools of the Trade

Technical Skills

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Technical Skills

• Traditional skills are still necessary
• Willingness to learn
• Ability to upskill quickly
• Ability to learn on the job

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DRI Digital Librarian

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• MLIS 2010
• TCD, RCPI, National Library of Ireland, Digital

Repository of Ireland

• Materials: Multiple types including digitised materials,

born digital, CDs, DVDs, cassettes, vinyl, manuscripts and special collections, ephemera, etc.

• Standards: MARC21, AACR2, ISAD(G), EAD, Dublin

Core, LCSH, DDC, a bit (not much!) of FRBR and RDA, Linked Data, knowledge organisation and thesaurus construction.

• Research, writing, and people skills!

Librarians and Archivists – Skills We Have

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Heroes

DRI Digital Librarian

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Linked Logainm – DRI & NLI

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• Concept:
• to republish the logainm.ie dataset as Linked

Open Data

• allowing it to be reused by computer

programmers, app developers, heritage professionals and more..

• Project ran October 2012 – September 2013

Written Output

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Project reports: narrative report and Using the Linked Logainm dataset Paper accepted for the International Journal

• f Digital Libraries

(forthcoming)

Location LODer

http://apps.dri.ie/álocationLODer

MoTIF – DRI & NLI

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• Concept:
• to create thesaurus construction guidelines,

best practice in the community

• now freely available online for use in

libraries and archives across the world.

• Project ran July 2013 – December 2013.

Written Output

http://apps.dri.ie/motif

Thesaurus Construction Guidelines: An introduction to Thesauri and Guidelines on their Construction. Project report document: Now freely available

• nline for librarians,

archivists, museum professionals and other information professionals.

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Pilot Thesaurus of Irish Folklore

Research Skills

• Research into new technologies and trends,

including Linked Data and thesaurus construction for Linked Logainm and Motif.

• Data gathering, analysing projects with respect

to international standards and best practice (Duchas)

• State of the Art: Literature review on archiving

social media (Social Repository)

• Researching policy, legislation (national and

international)

Writing Skills

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• Reports
• Policies: writing or assisting
• Documenting processes and procedures
• Guidelines
• Academic publications

Communication Skills

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• Coice people …
• why librarians and libraries are necessary

(Google? We find information, evaluate, categorise it, and describe all so that people can find it easily, we preserve it)

• to use standards (improve search and

discovery, enable the sharing of data, enable the reuse and preservation of data)

Communication Skills

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• Inform people...
• Outreach, promoting services, promoting

collections

• Train people...
• Use standards, use databases, enable people to

fid iforatio they eed…