jenny o neill 'librarian as databrarian
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Mission
DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities and Social Sciences Data
DRI links and preserves the rich data held by Irish institutions, providing a central access point
and multimedia tools
♯ASL2015
Data Curator
“This position will involve
assembling and curating
diverse data sets from
the humanities and
social sciences for
ingestion into the Digital
Repository of Ireland”
But also…o Metadata Taskforce
o Workflows
o Organisational Liasion
o Linked data factsheet
o Metadata guidelines for MARC
o Feature champion for Ingestion
♯ASL2015
1641 Depositions
The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies from all social backgrounds, concerning their
experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion.
o Digitised images of the Depostions (TIFF)
o Transcriptions encoded in TEI (XML)
♯ASL2015
Step 1 – Explore the database
♯ASL2015
https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Home/Databases/Engineering/about
Step 2 – Choose a metadata standard
♯ASL2015
o Simple Dublin Core
o Qualified Dublin Core
o EAD
o MODS
o MARC21 encoded as MARCXML
Step 3 – Map to QDC
♯ASL2015
Mandatory in DRI
o Title
o Creator
o Created
o Description
o Rights
Optional in DRI
o Identifier
o Modified
Recommended in DRI
o Contributor
o Language
o Source
o Spatial
o Temporal
o Type
o Relation
Step 3
♯ASL2015
o Title
o Creator
o Created
o Source
o Subject
o Identifier
title
surname, forename, patronymics, age,
person_type_desc
day, month, year
manuscript_number, folio_start,
folio_end, page
gender_desc, nationality_desc,
religion_desc
deposition_id
Step 4 – Clean the metadata
♯ASL2015
http://openrefine.org/
http://www.dri.ie/publications#guidelines
Next steps
♯ASL2015
o Create relationships between objects
o Create QDC XML
o https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/digitalscholarship/content/blogs/converting-spreadsheets-modsxml-using-open-refine
o Ingest into DRI