The Digital Repository of Ireland Launches Strategic Plan 2025–2029

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) have launched their Strategic Plan 2025–2029, The Digital Repository of Ireland: Leading Digital Preservation, Discovery, and Access, which outlines their commitment to safeguarding Ireland’s digital legacy.

The DRI Strategic Plan 2025–2029 was launched on Thursday 7 November at the Royal Irish Academy, as part of the World Digital Preservation Day celebrations.

The Strategic Plan will help DRI meet the significant growth in demand for digital preservation services from the Irish research community and cultural heritage sector that they anticipate over the next five years. The Strategy outlines DRI's vision for the future, their commitment to the communities that they serve, and sets organisational goals in the following priority areas:

• Digital Preservation: Ensuring the preservation of Ireland’s digital culture heritage, humanities, and social sciences data for long-term discovery and access
• Innovation and Infrastructure: Ensuring that our technical infrastructure is robust, can meet future preservation needs, and is environmentally sustainable
• Open Access and Research: Supporting and implementing best practices in open access, research data management, and stewardship of data in line with the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability
• Education and Engagement: Developing our member training programme, embedding DRI in university and school curricula, and ensuring our education and public engagement programme has a national and international reach
• Membership and Community: Supporting Irish researchers and DRI members by working with them to preserve their data and promote its reuse

Commenting on the Strategy, Chair of the DRI Board John Mc Donough said:

‘The launch of this Strategy marks a new chapter in the development and growth of the DRI. It sets out the roadmap for the next five years and illustrates the expertise, enthusiasm, and ambition of the DRI team for the local and national communities they support.’

DRI Director Dr Lisa Griffith said:

‘We are delighted to share this vision for DRI and our work for the next five years. We will continue to see a strong demand for our services and this plan focuses on how we build capacity to meet that demand. I’d like to thank the digital preservation community, our members, and the DRI team who all contributed to this strategic plan.’

Access the DRI Strategic Plan 2025–2029 in the DRI repository: https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.cr571w55h

DRI Strategic Plan 2025–2029 (Irish language version): https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.cv442s39c