Digital Preservation Coalition

Trinity College Library Dublin

Excerpt from DPC Annual Report 2008-2009

The Digital Resources and Imaging Services Department (DRIS) is a new library department dedicated to the digitisation and dissemination of digital library collections and resources. Current digitisation activities are primarily focused on the Early Printed Book and Manuscripts collections with special emphasis placed on the creation of new digital resources to support advanced academic research.

Our current projects include the digitisation of the manuscripts department’s holdings of Medieval Greek manuscripts, the J.D. White collections of 19th century Ballads, the Early Printed Book Department’s collection of World War I postcards, and the Robinson Collection of Caricature. We are also excited to announce our participation in the Europeana Travel project, which will include the digitisation of late 18th to mid 19th century travel journals, and the papers of the surgeon, author, and naturalist Major Richard William George Hingston (1887-1966).

Over the next year we will continue the expansion of the Libraries electronic resources with the introduction of a new Digital Library Collections Repository. This Fedora Commons based digital repository will support the long-term storage and preservation of our unique digital collections, provide innovative new research toolsets to the humanities researcher, and open library access to a wide variety of new user groups.

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