Digital Repository of Ireland to preserve Together for Yes digital archive

During its existence as the main civil society campaign for a Yes vote in the referendum on the Eighth Amendment, Together For Yes generated a huge amount of digital content, including campaign branding, an official website, press releases, merchandise design and more.

As part of its post-referendum work, Together for Yes organised a preservation and archiving initiative, of which membership of a trusted digital repository plays a key part.  An archivist will work on ingesting the campaign's public digital record as well as some business records and other materials into DRI.

DRI Director Dr Natalie Harrower said: "Ireland's 2018 Referendum on the Eighth Amendment was contentious and hard fought, mobilising large communities of volunteers to campaign for the opposing perspectives. I am delighted that Together for Yes applied to join DRI in order to archive campaign materials for long term preservation and wide access...DRI is committed to assisting Irish organisations & institutions to safeguard their digital data and welcomes a diversity of depositors"