title: The process of building a national trusted digital repository: solving the federation problem
creators: Sharon Webb Aileen O’Carroll
abstract: The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is building an interactive national trusted digital repository for contemporary and historical, social and cultural data held by Irish institutions. It will provide a central Internet access point and interactive multimedia tools, for use by the public, students and scholars and inform national policy for digital preservation and access. In 2011/2012 DRI conducted a requirements analysis of stakeholder needs. This paper focuses on how aspects of this requirements analysis are translated into technical and policy solutions. We address how the project consortium, comprising six academic institutions, integrates with existing partner repositories and how the Digital Repository of Ireland tackles issues of repository federation in terms of storage, deposit and the legal frameworks associated with these activities. 
   
keywords: requirements policy storage deposit user roles use case legal frameworks