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DRI Launches the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot

07 May 2024

We are very pleased to be able to share the successful applicants to our pilot scheme below. Their collections will enrich the lasting digital record of Irish language, culture and society.

In early 2024, the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) launched a call for applications for a new deposit scheme, Data Preservation for Legacy Research Collections, aimed at researchers with culturally and socially valuable research materials which may be at risk of loss. DRI asked for unpublished or published materials associated with completed projects, whether or not they had been designed as ‘data’ projects at the time of creation, and opened the call to anyone who may or may not have had a traditional pathway to deposit in the Repository. Over the next five months, they will work with DRI staff and Sonraí (Irish Data Stewardship Network) to curate, organise, describe, and publish their collections in the Repository.

To learn more about successful applicants to the Pilot Scheme, visit the DRI website

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