Strategy

The Library’s Digital Scholarship Enablement Strategy is the result of a consultation with a range of stakeholders and is subject to ongoing review. The strategy provides a framework for staffing and skills development, technical infrastructure, standards, project selection, collaboration and funding. It guides Library publication of digital collections, promotion of open access, and development of services, spaces and partnerships to advance digital scholarship.

Engagement and partnership across many of the areas identified in the strategy document is ongoing. This includes the:

• management and execution of the world’s largest theatre archive digitisation project
• provision of a data hosting platform for the Duanaire project in the Whitaker Institute
• establishment of a standards-based digital content repository as host to a number of archives and special collection
• enablement of data mining by Insight of the Abbey Theatre archive
• publishing of a Open Access to Research Outputs
• creating exhibitions – it’s intended to feature the programme at http://www.nuigalway.ie/visitors/
• and a successful bid for funds to create a digital makerspace [LINK] in the Library.

We want to work with you and we open to any questions.