DRI Preserves New Collections as Part of the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot
The Digital Repository of Ireland is delighted to share new collections preserved in the Repository through the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot.
Throughout 2024, DRI has been working to better support the digital preservation and research data management needs of the Irish research community by extending our services and launching a timely and ambitious Legacy Research Data Preservation Pilot in collaboration with Sonraí, the Irish Data Stewardship Network. The Pilot programme provides individual researchers with an alternative route to that of DRI’s paid membership model, so that they can deposit their legacy research data at no financial cost to the researcher in DRI’s CoreTrustSeal-certified trustworthy digital repository and benefit from free specialised research data management and collection creation training. We are delighted to share some of the new research data collections that have been preserved in the DRI repository for long-term preservation, access, and discovery through this new Pilot programme.
DRI has preserved the following diverse legacy research data collections so far: Friendships Highway: Migration and Irish Girls’ Friendly Society Members, 1885 – 1935; Jennifer O’Reilly Research Data Archive; the Irish language collections Logainm Sound Recordings / Taifeadtaí Fuaime Logainm and Munster Women Writers Recovery Project / Tionscadal Aisghabhála Scríbhneoirí Mná na Mumhan; as well as Dún Ailinne 1968-1975 Excavation Archive; and Growing Up in a Pandemic: health behaviours and the impact of COVID-19 on health inequalities among young people in Ireland — ‘Teenpath COVID’.
The Legacy Data Preservation Pilot has successfully supported researchers in preserving their legacy research data – such as research project websites, digitised texts, recordings and photographs – so that this valuable material can be discovered, accessed, and reused. Without the digital preservation and data management services offered by DRI through the Pilot programme, this research data was at risk of being lost.
Find out more about the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot collections on the DRI blog.
