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

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

Outline o Introduction to DRI o Key projects o Focus on skills  Core skills  Technology  Subject headings  Research, writing & communication ♯ npdishine14

Mission 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 ♯ npdishine14

Structure o Exchequer funded; HEA PRTLI 5, € 5.2M o RIA (lead), TCD, NUIM, DIT, NUIG, NCAD o Team of 36 people across 6 sites o Partners: cultural, academic, social, industry o Sep 2011 – Sep 2015 ♯ npdishine14

DRI Data Curator o B.A. (Mod) Computer Science, Linguistics & French (2004), Trinity College Dublin o Masters in Library & Information Studies (2013), UCD o Currently DRI Data Curator, Trinity College Dublin o Incessant Tweeter @jenbeardublin ♯ npdishine14

Data Curator But also … o Workflows & Metadata �This positio� �ill i��ol�e taskforces assembling and curating o Linked data factsheet diverse data sets from o Metadata guidelines for the humanities and MARC social sciences for o Feature champion for ingestion into the Digital Ingestion Repository of Irela�d� o Document owner Infrastructure Report o Writing articles ♯ npdishine14

1641 Depositions The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. o Digitised images of the Depostions (TIFF) o Transcriptions encoded in TEI (XML) http://1641.tcd.ie/

Tools of the Trade

Technical Skills ♯ npdishine14

Technical Skills o Traditional skills are still necessary o Willingness to learn o Ability to upskill quickly o Ability to learn on the job ♯ npdishine14

DRI Digital Librarian o MLIS 2010 o TCD, RCPI, National Library of Ireland, Digital Repository of Ireland o Materials: Multiple types including digitised materials, born digital, CDs, DVDs, cassettes, vinyl, manuscripts and special collections, ephemera, etc. o 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. ♯ npdishine14 o Research, writing, and people skills!

Librarians and Archivists – Skills We Have Heroes ♯ npdishine14

DRI Digital Librarian ♯ npdishine14

Linked Logainm – DRI & NLI o Concept: o to republish the logainm.ie dataset as Linked Open Data o allowing it to be reused by computer programmers, app developers, heritage professionals and more.. o Project ran October 2012 – September 2013 ♯ npdishine14

Written Output Project reports : narrative report and Using the Linked Logainm dataset Paper accepted for the International Journal of Digital Libraries (forthcoming) ♯ npdishine14

Location LODer http://apps.dri.ie/álocationLODer

MoTIF – DRI & NLI o Concept: o to create thesaurus construction guidelines, best practice in the community o now freely available online for use in libraries and archives across the world. o Project ran July 2013 – December 2013. ♯ npdishine14¸¸

Written Output Thesaurus Construction Guidelines : An introduction to Thesauri and Guidelines on their Construction. Project report document : Now freely available online for librarians, archivists, museum professionals and other information professionals. http://apps.dri.ie/motif

Pilot Thesaurus of Irish Folklore ♯ npdishine14

Research Skills o Research into new technologies and trends, including Linked Data and thesaurus construction for Linked Logainm and Motif. o Data gathering, analysing projects with respect to international standards and best practice (Duchas) o State of the Art: Literature review on archiving social media (Social Repository) o Researching policy, legislation (national and international)

Writing Skills o Reports o Policies: writing or assisting o Documenting processes and procedures o Guidelines o Academic publications ♯ npdishine14

Communication Skills o Co��i�ce people … o 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) o to use standards (improve search and discovery, enable the sharing of data, enable the reuse and preservation of data) ♯ npdishine14

Communication Skills o Inform people... o Outreach, promoting services, promoting collections o Train people... o Use standards, use databases, enable people to fi�d i�for�atio� they �eed… ♯ npdishine14