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SUMMARY
The Social Repository of Ireland project will determine the feasibility of developing a richly annotated archive of social media responses to major events / topics of interest in Ireland, and to preserve this archive in a trusted digital repository. In addition to archiving and preservation, the study will develop practices for semi-automating the processes of annotation and archiving, enriching the data with contextual curation from archives, and assessing legal and ethical issues that arise in the preservation of social media. This project was funded under SFI’s Technology Innovation Development Award scheme. The lead partner is the Digital Humanities and Journalism Group at INSIGHT @ NUIG.
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SOLUTIONS
- Archiving and preserving otherwise ephemeral social media user-content
- Developing practices for semi-automating the process of annotation and archiving, to enrich the data with contextual curation
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LINK: http://www.dri.ie/projects
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