Archiving Events

Title: DASISH: Qualitative Data Workshop
Date: 20th - 21st November 2012
Venue: NIRSA Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Iontas Building, NUI Maynooth
 

DASISH is an FP7 infrastructures project that brings together all 5 ESFRI Research Infrastructures in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH,ESS and SHARE) to explore common challenges and solutions.
 
The purpose of the workshop is to examine the contribution that qualitative social science researchers and archivists can make to the DASISH project, and to ensure their involvement and co-operation. 
 
The workshop will contribute to DASISH by focusing on some of the distinctive challenges and opportunities associated with integrating the community of qualitative social science researchers and archivists within SSH infrastructures, in particular those associated with data preservation, access and legal and ethical issues.  It will also highlight the ways in which addressing those challenges and opportunities can contribute to the DASISH goal of promoting interdisciplinary crosswalks for the communities served by the ESFRI projects.
 
The workshop is organized by the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA) and co-hosted by our partner organization the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). 
 
More Information.
 
 

Title: Collecting Oral Narratives: Ethics, Best Practice and the Law

Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Time: 6pm sharp.  Coffee and tea will be served from 5.30pm.
Venue: Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Event Summary: There are ethical and legal issues involved in the collection, storage and use of recorded spoken memories of the past, and OHNI members consider that it would be useful to have these issues debated by people with relevant expertise in a public forum. While oral history can offer access to aspects of the past not available through other sources, when used without careful consideration of these issues it can present difficulties.

The network is bringing together a panel of experts to start the discussion, which will be chaired by Justice Catherine McGuinness.  The panel includes archivists, lawyers specializing in the law as it applies to the collection, storage and dissemination of oral narratives, and historians. OHNI is also assembling an invited audience with specialist expertise to help enhance the debate from the floor.  Places will also be available to other interested parties on a first come, first served basis.

RSVP: If you are interested in attending the seminar please contact either Mary Muldowney ( mmuldwny@oralhistorynetworkireland.ie) or Ida Milne ( milnei@oralhistorynetworkireland.ie) as soon as possible. We expect there to be a keen demand for places which are limited by the size of the venue.

See the Oral History Network of Ireland website for more information
 
 

Date: Thursday 26 January 2012
Time: 10am to 2pm
Location: TCD School of Nursing & Midwifery, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2
Further information: www.childrensresearchnetwork.org

Event Summary:
There is a growing body of qualitative research data being made available in data archives in both Ireland and the UK. Examples of Irish qualitative data currently available for further analysis include Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) and Life Histories and Social Change in 20th Century Ireland. The Timescapes Research Programme, at the University of Leeds, hosts a wide variety of economic and social research data relevant to child and family researchers; data which is available to researchers in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Access to this data provides researchers with greater opportunities to explore the issues that affect children, their families and their communities and which may ultimately contribute to informing children's policy. In this the second master class of the Children's Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland, participants will learn about the various qualitative datasets that are publicly-available for research purposes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Key speakers:

• Dr Jane Gray from NUI Maynooth will explain the background to the establishment of Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA). She will look at the processes and procedures involved in lodging and accessing data in the archive and the criteria for assessing access requests.
• Brian Merriman from the Children’s Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin will provide details of the Growing Up in Ireland qualitative data available from IQDA, and will discuss his experience of preparing and lodging the GUI data in the archive.
• Dr Tara Murphy, as research manager for Childhood Development Initiative (CDI), Tara was responsible for preparing CDI qualitative evaluation data for lodging with IQDA; Tara will discuss her experience of this process.
• Brenda Phillips from the Timescapes Research Programme at the University of Leeds will describe the type of data that is collected and how researchers can access this data.

Title: Book launch of Suburban Affiliations, Social Relations in the Greater Dublin Area by Mary P. Corcoran, Jane Gray & Michel Peillon
Date: Tuesday, 28th September 2010 at 6pm, book launch introduced by David McWiliams
Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Data from this project is being archived in the IQDA. If you are interested in urban and suburban life in Ireland, and want to draw on this data for your own project, this launch is a great opportunity to meet the researchers and find out more about their research process.
  
 
 
 

Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter, UCD School of History, Margaret E Ward from Clear Inc., & Catriona Crowe, from the National Archives discussed the difficulties facing the national archives on The Tubridy Show, particularly as we move from a digital to a paper era: A pod cast of the show can be found on the RTE website here.
 
 
 

UCD Press is holding a book launch for Outside the Glow, Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland by Heather K Crawford, in Newman House, 86 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2 on Monday the 8th March at 6 pm.
We are currently working with Dr Crawford to prepare the interviews that book is based on for depositing in the IQDA.
 
Aileen O'Carroll