Digital Repository of Ireland Member Digitisation Workflows for 2D Image Files: Survey Questions and Dataset

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) issued a survey to its membership, DRI Member Digitisation Workflows for 2D Images, which ran from December 7, 2023–January 31, 2024. The survey was conducted to improve the DRI’s understanding of the technical processes and metadata workflows that our members use to digitise and share images in the Repository, in order to better tailor our support for this work and deliver the most complete information about digital images files available to our users. 

The survey informed the actions taken in WorldFAIR Project WP13 deliverable 13.3 Implementing and Testing the Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Recommendations: DRI Case Study Report. The data will inform ongoing work at DRI aimed at improving the transparency of technical information associated with digital assets accessed through the Repository.

Read more about the Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Case Study DRI on our website: https://dri.ie/the-worldfair-project/. 

Summary: DRI is Ireland's national repository for the arts, humanities, and social sciences data, and operates on a membership scheme. There were 20 respondents to the survey, giving us a response rate of about 35% of DRI's membership. Representation from professional fields of work across the cultural heritage sector was captured in the results (note that some institutions gave multiple responses): 17 Archives, 12 Libraries, 5 Museums and 11 Higher Education Institutions.