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importance, therefore, of providing an environment in which print/non-digital material can be preserved and consulted will continue in tandem with the urgency for increased access to, and availability of, digitised resources. The preservation of research resources is a welcome by-product of digitisation, but very often much of the source material for digitisation projects is in itself a unique and valuable asset. Such material also needs to be preserved. Broadband high-capacity networks are essential to ensure speedy access to resources and to support collaborative research. The basic transmission infrastructure is already in place in Ireland. However, it is important that there is continued support for the development and delivery of quality applications to exploit this investment and to provide real benefits to the HSS community. The expansion of the IreL scheme to the HSS community within the university sector is welcome but it must be made more accessible to the broad community of researchers. There is much to be done at national level in supporting the development and delivery of quality applications to exploit the basic infrastructure and especially to provide the requisite authorisation and authentication infrastructure (AAI). This will provide researchers with access to both appropriate resources and roaming access nationally and globally. Such AAI is already in place for the Grid community. However, the scope needs to be extended to the research community as a whole and integrated with AAI at international level if only to ensure that such automated tools will lead to the semiautomatic transfer of digitised resources into high-capacity storage facilities with associated quality control and validation. Also critical is the need to consider storage and preservation of digital data to ensure continued future accessibility, and the need to address complex issues surrounding the preservation of the integrity of artefacts and data represented and stored digitally. With respect to the HSS community, there is also a need to heighten awareness of both existing digitised resources available to it and current national and international digitisation projects. A national programme of awareness building and training is desirable. This would support the maximum return from the investment in data developed institutionally and data accessed on a fee-paying basis. It is suggested that training/promotional tools should draw on existing national and international best practice. The growth in transnational research collaboration has served to highlight existing weaknesses in the capacity of the domestic statistical infrastructure for long-range studies of Irish population, economy and society. It is suggested that this capacity should be further developed to enable Ireland to reap the maximum benefits for its
involvement in transnational, particularly EU-level research. This requires funding to support the development of methodological tools, approaches and the upskilling of the HSS research community to enable them to use these tools. A national seed fund to support HSS methodological studies and participation in transnational infrastructure initiatives should be established.
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A D V A N C I N G H U M A N I T I E
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7 HSS RESEARCH AND THE EUROPEAN UNI
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Table 11 HERD expenditure on humani
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Glossary AAI CONUL COST CSC DES DET
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Foreword The Royal Irish Academy (R
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Preface This report is the result o
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1 Executive summary INTRODUCTION In
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• Enhanced investment in national
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Increased investment in HSS researc
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