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ITMA Announces the Awarding of Heritage Capacity Funding for 2023

Tuesday 27 June 2023

Barry Lynn (pictured on the left) has been engaged by ITMA to work on developing processes around rights and public access to its online collections.

ITMA is delighted to announce the awarding of Capacity Heritage funding from The Heritage Council of Ireland for its project on Rights and Public Access to ITMA online collections.

In January 2023 ITMA applied to the Heritage Council of Ireland for funding under their Capacity Heritage Grant Scheme. “This scheme aims to build the capacity of non-governmental organisations working in the heritage sector in Ireland by providing funding towards their core costs:

to support developing and strengthening of skills, processes, and resources that heritage organisations need to survive, adapt, and thrive in the uncertainty of recent times
to support heritage organisations who play a key role in the heritage infrastructure of Ireland and who are vital to the delivery of national policy and plans.”

Rights and Public Access to ITMA Online Collections

Project Overview

The first phase of the project will focus on developing a process around the clearance of rights to ITMA audio collections in order to maximise online public access. It is hoped that by the end of the project ITMA will have developed a centralised resource for rights and public access for use into the future.

ITMA is delighted to have engaged Barry Lynn (pictured above) to work on the first phase of this project. Barry was the Rights Officer for the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Project (UOSH) for National Museums Northern Ireland. He is passionate and meticulous about rights-clearance work and is knowledgeable about traditional music and its performers.

The second phase of the project will see the employment for a period of four months of two Rights and Public Access Officers. These officers will begin the work of clearing rights in ITMA collections for online dissemination. A rights database will be maintained in order to document and manage evidence of the due diligence process undertaken and to ensure any access restrictions are reflected accurately in collection metadata and in archival systems.