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The national conversation around Covid-19: The contributions of Academy stakeholders
Monday, 8 June 2020The Royal Irish Academy welcomes this opportunity to profile our stakeholders’ important and timely initiatives.
Dig out your sporting memorabilia and contribute to 'Europeana Sport - Ireland’s Stories'!
Monday, 8 June 2020With sport and games cancelled across Ireland, the Digital Repository of Ireland is asking people to dig out their sporting memorabilia and contribute to Europeana Sport - Ireland’s Stories.
DRI Batch Metadata Template Blog Part One: Metadata for Researchers
Monday, 8 June 2020In the first of a short series of blog posts relating to the DRI's Batch Metadata Template, we define the concepts of metadata and metadata standards. We then move on to introduce the DRI Batch Metadata Template, and...
Stay at home: Oral history recording in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
Monday, 8 June 2020New to the DRI blog: read about DRI's revised oral history workflows during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DIB Rogues: Anne Bonney, pirate
Monday, 8 June 2020The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. We start with Anne Bonney, perhaps the most famous female pirate of all time, who ...
Great Medical Promises Threatened by Booming Miracle Cures and Undue Pressure to Gain Fast-Track Approvals
Friday, 5 June 2020A new report by the European Academies of Science and Medicine on Regenerative Medicine calls upon European lawmakers to protect biomedical science from false claims.
IHTA Town Type Series: The Town in the Nineteenth Century
Wednesday, 3 June 2020In the sixth and final IHTA Town Type Essay, Jacinta Prunty, Irish Historic Towns Atlas editor and Maynooth University lecturer, discusses the changes in and to towns in the nineteenth century.
How linguistics can help the historian: Part V
Wednesday, 3 June 2020This instalment looks at how a piece of Strasbourg language planning, having successfully averted war in Europe for a while, went on to affect the subsequent history of the whole world.
Protection of Marine Environments - Call for Experts
Tuesday, 2 June 2020A new project being led by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology will develop a statement on the protection of marine environments.
RDA COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations final draft now open for public consultation
Tuesday, 2 June 2020On 28 May 2020, the Research Data Alliance published the pre-final version of the RDA COVID-19 Recommendations and Guidelines covering four research areas – clinical data, omics practices, epidemiology and social...