Are you a researcher in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences (AHSS)? Research data in these areas comes in so many forms. As a researcher working with AHSS data, you likely have different needs than those in other disciplines. You might not even see your sources or outputs as ‘data’ – but regardless of what they are called, they are worthy of being well organised, and citable, retrievable, and available for future generations to access.

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a national digital repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage data. 

Join the DRI, CACSSS and UCC’s Research Data Service to find out more about how you can work with DRI to preserve and share your research data (including data sets, oral histories, images, interviews, reports and much more!) You will hear from UCC projects that have successfully deposited their outputs in DRI. DRI will share tips and information about copyright and licensing of research materials, and UCCs Research Data Service will outline the practical steps that you can take to preserve your own data.

This will be an informal *in person* event with plenty of opportunity for conversation and questions, and lunch will be provided. The event will be held in the Creative Zone of the Boole Library on the ground floor.

Open to UCC staff and students. If the event is fully booked, please join the waiting list and you will be assigned a place in the event of a cancellation.

Schedule

11am – Introduction:  

Dr Allen White, Research Officer, CACSSS  

Dr Aoife Coffey and Dr Deborah Thorpe, Research Data Service, UCC

11.15am - Round the room conversation, chaired by Dr Lisa Griffith, DRI 

11.35am - Introduction to DRI and Digital Preservation, DRI team 

Q&A

12pm - LUNCH 

12.40pm - Archiving for Regional Development: The Ports, Past and Present Collection, by Dr James Smith, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ports, Past and Present 

1.10pm - Copyright and licensing of research materials in digital environments, with examples from the DRI collections, Kevin Long, DRI 

1.40pm - So you have decided to preserve and share your data with DRI – what next?, Aoife Coffey and Deborah Thorpe, Research Data Service, UCC 

1.50-2pm - Closing remarks, Dr Helena Buffery, Vice-Head of CACSSS (Research) 

If you have any questions about this event, or about data preservation and sharing with the Digital Repository of Ireland in general, email researchdata@ucc.ie