October 2023

Digital Preservation and Electronic Record Keeping: Collaboration and Conversation

Presentation 1

Who are IRMS?

Jaana Pinnick, IRMS Chair

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Presentation 2

Drafting Guidelines for Electronic Record Keeping: A Collaboration. 

Joanne Rothwell, Waterford City and County Archives and Lorraine Marrey, Digital Repository of Ireland

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Presentation 3

Supporting Good Practice: Reflections on the DPC Competency Framework one year on

Sharon McMeekin, Digital Preservation Coalition

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Presentation 4

Starting a new digital preservation programme in an old organisation

Jaana Pinnick, IRMS Chair

(Slides)

 

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May 2021

Archives and Social Justice Seminar Series
 
Recordings of the second two events in this seminar series are available. It was decided not to record the first session due to the sensitivity of the topic. Please get in contact with the training officer at trainingofficersoai@gmail.com if you would like to obtain a copy of the presentation videos. Presentation slides are also available below.
 
Session 1 - Archival Sovereignty
 
Archival Sovereignty: Towards a New Archival Principle 

Dr. James Lowry, City University of New York
 
 
Session 2 - Archives and Impact
 
Social Justice Goals and Impact in the Archive: a Case Study of 'Universities Studying Slavery'

Ashley Williams, Independent Archivist
 
 
Sites of (Un)Remembrance: The State, Testimony, and Archival Memory

Dr Barry Houlihan, Archivist and Lecturer, NUIG
 
 
Session 3 - Archives and Activism
 
Archiving the 8th: Documenting Significant Social Shifts through Archivist, Activist and Academic Perspectives

Dr Maeve O'Brien, Postdoctoral Research Coordinator, Archiving the 8th Project
 
 
The Conradh na Gaeilge Archive: Activism, Archives and the Irish Language

Niamh Ní Charra, Project Archivist, Conradh na Gaeilge and Mary Robinson Collections, NUIG
 
 

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January 2021

Kickstarting Your Career: A New Professionals Training Seminar
 
Recordings of the presentations were generated during the event. Please get in contact with the training officer at trainingofficersoai@gmail.com if you would like to obtain a copy of the presentation videos. 
 
Presentation 1
 
Career Resilience in a Time of Plague: Adapting to the Effects of the Pandemic

Carly Randall, Archivist at V&A Archive and Registry
 

Presentation 2

Who do you think we are? Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement in the Archives Profession

Deirdre McParland, Senior Archivist at ESB Archives
 
Presentation 3
 
Managing Large Archival Projects: Tips and Lessons Learnt
 
Cécile Gordon, Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland
 
Presentation 4
 
Managing Large Archival Projects: Tips and Lessons Learnt

Cécile Gordon, Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland
 

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August 2020

Online Training: Digital Curation and Digital Preservation
 
Recordings of these presentations were created for this online event. Please get in contact with the training officer at trainingofficersoai@gmail.com if you would like to obtain a copy of the presentation videos. 
 
Presentation 1
 
Digital Curation and Preservation at UCD Digital Library

Peter Clarke, Digital Services Programmer, UCD Library
 
Presentation 2
 
Opening Doors: Using Open Source Software in Digital Preservation
 
Rachel MacGregor, Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick 
 

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July 2020

Online Training: AtoM Cataloguing Software and Open Refine
 
Recordings of these presentations were created for this online event. Please get in contact with the training officer at trainingofficersoai@gmail.com if you would like to obtain a copy of the presentation videos. 
 
Presentation 1
 
Experiences with AtoM in Offaly Archives and the Irish Jesuit Archives
 
Lisa Shortall, Offaly Archives and Damien Burke, Society of Jesus, Ireland
 
Presentation 2
 
Clean Migrate, Validate, Enhance: Using Open Refine to Process Metadata for the Endangered Archives Programme
 
Dr Graham Jevon, Endangered Archives Programme, British Library
 

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November 2019

Championing Diversity and Inclusion in Irish Archives and Records 

Presentation 1:

National Library of Ireland: Diversity & Inclusion

Maria Ryan, NLI

Presentation 2:

Queer Treasure: Documenting & Preserving Irish LGBT History

Tonie Walsh, Civil Rights Activist, Historian and Journalist

(coming soon)

Presentation 3:

Structured Ignorance and Silencing in Irish Archives

Katherine O’Donnell, UCD and Dr Maeve O'Rourke, NUIG

Presentation 4:

Queer Archival Activism: The Cork LGBT Archive

Orla Egan, Cork LGBT Archive

Presentation 5:

Access, Representation and Engagement: Working with Wikimedia Projects

Rebecca O’Neill, Wikimedia Community Ireland

Further details for the event available through Eventbrite

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September 2019

Making the Most out of your Career’: Continuing Professional Development for Archives and Records Management Professionals

Presentation 1

What do I need to learn? Identifying regional training needs: the value of a Skills Audit

Caroline Williams

Presentation 2

RMS ACCREDITATION – Your Route to Recognition as  Professional

Deirdre Allison

Presentation 3

ARA Professional Development Programme - Understanding the competency framework

Chris Sheridan

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21st March 2019

Digital Preservation and ARA Professional Development

Presentation 1

Using and developing open source tools in the Irish Film Institute

Kieran O'Leary, IFI Irish Film Archive

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Presentation 2

The Atlantic Philanthropies Archive Project

Anja Mahler, Digital Repository of Ireland

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Presentation 3

ARA Professional Development

Chris Sheridan

 

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18th September 2018

(Joint event run by ARA, Ireland and IRMS Ireland)

Copyright and Data Protection Seminar

Presentation 1: 

Copyright in Digital Environments

Clare Lanigan, Education and Outreach Manager, Royal Irish Academy

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Presentation 2: 

Becoming Compliant using Records Management

Dorothy Quinn, Digital Records Manager

Limerick City and County Council

(This presentation was made available to attendees only)

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Presentation 3: 

Copyright and orphan works

Professor Ronan Deazley, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast

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Presentation 4

GDPR and how it affects bodies covered by the National Archives Act

Niamh McDonnell, Senior Archivist, National Archives of Ireland

 

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27th March 2018

Excel for Archivists

Presentation 1

Using Excel for creating and improving archive catalogues: Why and how

Gillian Sheldrick

 

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