Clare Lanigan

Clare Lanigan is Education and Outreach Co-ordinator for the Digital Repository of Ireland. Prior to taking on this role, she worked as a Research Assistant on the Social Repository of Ireland, a DRI partner project investigating the feasibility of archiving and preserving social media responses to Irish events. She has an academic background in history and has worked on cataloguing projects in the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Film Archive, She has also worked in broadcast journalism and production. Her areas of interest include digital and web archiving, audiovisual collection management, training and education in digital preservation, metadata standards and access policies.