DRI Decade of Centenaries Digital Preservation Award

25 June 2015

Dr. Sharon Webb and Rebecca Grant

22 December 2014 - The Call

To coincide with the national programme of events

the Digital Repository of Ireland opened a call for

expressions of interest from custodians of heritage

material relating to the Decade of

Centenaries who wish to digitally preserve their

holdings.

Motivation

We believe that digital heritage is at risk of

destruction and loss if action is not taken. Digital

decay is the gradual decay of digital content - lost

data that cannot be accessed because computers

no longer understand the legacy formats or are

un-readable.

The Plan!

To select collections from Irish organisations that

related specifically to the call.

To provide the services of DRI digital archivists to

the winning applicants and ingest content into the

Repository for long-term preservation.

Preservation Workshop

Acknowledgments

DRI Digital Archivists – Dolores Grant and Kate

McCarthy

DRIS and Joanne Carroll

Strand 3, especially Dr. Agustina Martinez Garcia

and Charlene McGoohan

Irish Research Council

New Foundations Award: Strand 2 “Marking the

National Decade of Centenaries” to “to support

activities designed specifically to contribute to the

Decade of Centenaries Programme”

The Collections

Dublin City Archives - 1915 Dublin City Electoral Lists

The Irish Capuchin Provincial Archives – The Capuchins and the Irish Revolution

National Irish Visual Arts Library, NCAD – The Michael Healy Collection

DRI Preservation Award Continues….

Digitisation Equipment: Copy Stand, Camera &

Lens, Laptop, Software, and various accessories.

Structure of the day and achievements

Introduction to DRI Deposit or Ingest System

Guided Ingest

Hands on workshop