Preserving our past together: reflections on the Easter Rising 1916 Web Archive - Dr Brendan Power, John McManus

THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLINLEABHARLANN CHOLÁISTE NA TRÍONÓIDE, OLLSCOIL ÁTHA CLIATH

Dr Brendan Power1916 Easter Rising Postdoctoral Research FellowTrinity College Dublin Web Archiving Project Officer

John McManusAssistant LibrarianBibliographic Data Management

14/04/16

Preserving our past together: reflections on the Easter Rising 1916 Web Archive

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The Library of Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Background

Planning

Access

ArchivingContent

Permissions

Exhibition

OVERVIEW


Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013

Extension of existing legal frameworks Systematic collection of UK’s published

output for heritage and preservation By 6 UK Legal Deposit Libraries

BACKGROUND



BACKGROUND

Legal Deposit Librarians’ Annual Conference Dublin, 2014

Concept : TCD and the Bodleian to jointly curate a collection on the Legal Deposit Web Archive collection on the theme of the 1916 Easter Rising

Championed by Catriona Cannon, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries and Helen Huckx Yu, Head of Web Archiving, British Library



Preliminary Planning

• To broaden scope of project beyond UK sites to collection of Irish websites on permissions basis

• To create a collection on UK Web Archive representing both the UK and Irish perspectives on the centenary of Easter Rising

• Agreement on scope of the theme, criteria for selection and parameters

• Division of work between TCD (Irish websites) and Bodleian (UK websites, overseas websites)

Initial Decision

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Sites relating to 1916 Rising – its

origins, and effects

Resources about the history of the event – political,

economic, religious, cultural, social,

literary, artistic and biographical

Critical and political reflection on the

significance of the 1916 Rising

Academic sites on the meaning of the

1916 Rising in modern memory

COLLECTION STRATEGY



TCD

Project based in the Library’s Collection

Management Division• Steering Group

established

• Appointment of Post Doctoral Researcher on half-time basis for 4 months (November 2015 – February 2016)

Engagement with

• National Library of Ireland

• TCD School of Histories & Humanities

• TCD Library, Research Collections Divisions



Bodleian

• Physical display + web archive collection + symposium• project kept ‘growing’ (official opening and talk by Irish

Ambassador etc...)Easter Rising

Project

• University of Oxford History Faculty (Roy Foster, Senia Paseta)• Irish Embassy

• Two student interns over 6 weeks in July/August 2015 to curate physical display and select websites for Easter Rising 1916 Web Archive collection (via W3ACT)

Co-operation with



UK WEB ARCHIVE

Over 10 million .uk registered domains

UK organisations also use non .uk domain names (eg .com or .org)

Non-print Legal Deposit applies to the open (freely available) web: .uk other UK-published (non .uk) websites, such as .com, .org…

made available to the public by a person or an organisation and the activities relating to the creation or the publication of the work take place within the United Kingdom



W3ACT



METADATA



Access: Collection Webpage



Access: Open UK Web Archive (UKWA)



UK Legal Deposit Web Archive



• Easter Rising 1916 Web Archive Webpage • This is a ‘stop gap’ solution• Content not up-to-date• Only small sample of collection

• Legal Deposit Archive• No collection level browse in legal deposit web archive • search results difficult to narrow down to meaningful

selection

• UK Web Archive• Not all content loaded into UK Web Archive, in

particular very little UK content, primarily Irish permissions content

• Media content problematic from permissions perspective

Access


Dr Brendan Power1916 Easter Rising Postdoctoral Research FellowTrinity College Dublin Web Archiving Project Officer

John McManusAssistant LibrarianBibliographic Data Management

14/04/16

Preserving our past together: reflections on the Easter Rising 1916 Web Archive



Statistics

307 websites added jointly by TCD and Bodleian to

W3ACT

99 websites added by

TCD

of which• 40 permissions

granted• 2 permission

refused• 57 pending

(incl. yes in principle & no response)

= Permissions rate: 40%



Permissions

Initial responses to request usually positive, but The terminology of the Licence agreement is restrictive due to

the UK legislative framework

Multiple levels of manual input from both the curatorial and the technical aspects

Huge commitment of time in advocacy and reassurance

It was often difficult to identify the decision maker in an organisation



News Media



News Media



News Media



Official Commemorations



Community Commemorations



Community Commemorations



Artistic Commemorations



Artistic Commemorations



Cultural Institutions



Family Commemorations



Oxford Exhibition

Proscholium, Old Bodleian Library, 1 February - 3 April 2016



Trinity College Library Exhibition

Changed Utterly: recording and reflecting on the Easter Rising, 1916-2016



Trinity College Library,Changed Utterly Blog



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The Library of Trinity College Dublin Manifesto

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Moral

Intellectual

Cultural

We have a moral responsibility to the future generations of Ireland to develop students’ full potential and advance research that benefits Ireland and the world

We have an intellectual responsibility to create the current and future library in this revolutionary and disruptive time of educational, technological and information change

We have a cultural responsibility to steward world-heritage items entrusted to our care

We have a social responsibility to make the library spaces welcoming, safe, individual and community places that reflect different and changing styles of learning, teaching and research

We have a statutory responsibility for legal deposit on behalf of Ireland

We have a financial responsibility to contribute to the knowledge economy, nationally and globally

We have a professional responsibility to develop our own skills and talents to be able to achieve the above

Social

Statutory

Financial

Professional

Thank You!


Contact details:Brendan Power: [email protected] McManus: [email protected]

Education

Preserving our past together: reflections on the Easter Rising 1916 Web Archive - Dr Brendan Power, John McManus