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Jenny O’Neill DRI Data Curator Trinity College Dublin [email protected]

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Jenny O’NeillDRI Data Curator Trinity College Dublin

[email protected]

Librarian as Databrarian

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o Digital Repository of Ireland

o Data Curator

o 1641 Depositions

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

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Cheeky plug!

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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

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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)

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Step 1 – Explore the database

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https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Home/Databases/Engineering/about

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Step 2 – Choose a metadata standard

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o Simple Dublin Core

o Qualified Dublin Core

o EAD

o MODS

o MARC21 encoded as MARCXML

Step 2

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Step 3 – Map to QDC

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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

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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

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http://openrefine.org/

http://www.dri.ie/publications#guidelines

Step 4

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ISO 8601 = YYYY-MM-DD

Step 4

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cells["year"].value + "-" + cells["month"].value + "-" + cells["day"].value

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Next steps

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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

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THANK YOU!