Making Cultural Heritage Data FAIR: Developing Recommendations for the WorldFAIR Project at the Digital Repository of Ireland
Presenter: Joan Murphy
Research Associate at the Digital Repository of Ireland
Abstract
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a research performing organisation and national Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) for Ireland’s humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences data. As a national infrastructure for the arts, social sciences, and humanities, DRI provides reliable, long-term, sustained access to social and cultural digital data.
The WorldFAIR Project, through 11 global case studies, aims to broaden our understanding of how FAIR may be interpreted within disciplinary research contexts. DRI is leading the Cultural Heritage Case Study for the WorldFAIR Project, seeking to explore how image sharing platforms in the cultural heritage landscape already facilitate the interoperability of both image data and associated metadata.
DRI’s contribution to WorldFAIR commenced with a landscape report, followed by the development of recommendations for the sharing of images by the project’s expert working group.
This talk will present the 5 recommendations published by DRI, providing the context for their development and discussing how they are currently being implemented in the DRI and what improvements and enhancements might be made. In doing so the DRI will share the practical challenges of implementing FAIR, and also offer a pathway for other organisations who are seeking to make their collections and repositories FAIR aligned.
About
Joan Murphy is a Research Associate at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) where she is working on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Future project, an EU-funded initiative to give European researchers wide access to FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data and related services. Joan is also working on the WorldFAIR project which aims to advance the implementation of the FAIR principles to improve the interoperability and reusability of digital research objects, including data, with a particular focus on how long-standing image sharing practices and networks in the cultural heritage sector could be more closely aligned with the FAIR principles to engage and support researchers across the eleven disciplines of the WorldFAIR project. She has a background in metadata management, workflow development and digital archiving.