The remaining index cards are currently being digitised in-house by the Library, and will be added to this page once completed. Preliminary digitisation work was carried out with thanks to support from the University’s Centre for Irish Studies, who were awarded a grant to fund an intern for the Robinson archive. The town-lands index was prioritised for digitisation because it offers an entry point to the archive, providing a glimpse into Robinson’s methodology.
TIM ROBINSON ARCHIVE
The Library is currently digitising the first part of the archive described above, the town-lands index, and making these items openly available from our Digital Repository. To look at the work that has taken place so far, please visit our Digital Exhibitions platform and hover over the areas of the map to highlight a town-land. A user interested in finding out more can click on the thumbnail, where they will be brought to the Digital Repository in order to consult the digitised items more thoroughly.īecause all of the data and platforms used in the project are Open Access, we are committed to enabling transformative uses of the archive, and we are enthusiastic about connecting it with other datasets that will offer supplementary information. Each shape is connected to a thumbnail image of the corresponding title card for that town-land, and a description of what else in the archive relates to that town-land. We used geographical data points made available by the Open Street Mapping community to plot the shapes of each town-land on an Open Street Map, and created an overlay from Robinson’s maps of these areas. To visually represent the geographical spread of Tim Robinson’s work, we are working on a project that directly connects his maps with his town-lands index, allowing a user simultaneous digital access to both.
The Library has a Digital Exhibitions platform, with features such as timelines and maps that allow us to present archival material in a more engaging way.
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