The Digital Repository of Ireland won three E-Government awards yesterday for Inspiring Ireland, the ambitious project it spearheaded in collaboration with eight of Ireland’s National Cultural Institutions, and the Department of Arts, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht.
DRI won the event’s Overall Award, which includes the finalists from all projects and organisations shortlisted for an award in 2014. The awards were presented on January 29th by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny during a gala event at Dublin Castle. Set up in 2001 to recognise excellence and innovation by public sector bodies who are pioneering change in the delivery of eGovernment services in Ireland, the awards are sponsored by eircom Business Solutions and jointly run by the Public Sector Times and digital marketing company Elucidate.
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a national trusted digital repository that preserves and provides online access to Ireland’s social and cultural heritage. A consortium of six partners -- The Royal Irish Academy, TCD, NUIM, NUIG, DIT and NCAD – the team includes software engineers, digital archivists and librarians, legal, policy and requirements specialists, social scientists and humanities scholars. Funded by the Irish Government via the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions in 2011, the DRI has won competitive funding for a number of additional research projects in the ICT, education and culture sectors, and actively collaborates with a number of partners, including RTÉ and the SFI-funded Insight Centre for Data Analytics, among others.
Visit DRI here: www.dri.ie
More information:
Dr. Sandra Collins s.collins@ria.ie
Dr. Natalie Harrower n.harrower@ria.ie
Inspiring Ireland: www.inspiring-ireland.ie
Digital Repository of Ireland: www.dri.ie