Building the Digital Repository of Ireland, building a digital community

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is an interactive, trusted digital repository for social and cultural content held by Irish institutions. By providing a central internet access point and interactive multimedia tools, the DRI will facilitate engagement with contemporary and historical data, allowing the public, students, and scholars to research Ireland’s cultural heritage and social life in ways never before possible. Since its initial conception, the DRI has taken a holistic approach to the practice of use and reuse, by targeting open source and community driven software, by carrying out extensive consultations across our interdisciplinary stakeholder community and by complementing the infrastructure and policy development with a comprehensive training programme to realise wide usage.