Current Projects

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 31/12/2026

Trinity has an ambitious program to enhance the engagement and enablement of all of the college community through a progressive digitalization of university services and the enhancement of core university systems. The Digital Trinity Infrastructure (DTI) Programme is a multi-million Euro enabling programme within Digital Trinity. DTI consists of four projects:

• DTI2: Future Hosting: Redesign of the College’s on-premises hosting infrastructure including compute, storage, network, backup, and disaster recovery services to include Azure cloud services.
• DTI3: NextGen Network: Replacement of the active wire data network in Trinity (border, core, distribution). Redesign of network and implementation of additional security features to mitigate the risk of cyberattack.
• NextGen Wi-Fi: Planning (only) for a Wi-Fi replacement to provide ubiquitous Wi-Fi 6E services across the entire university estate.
• DTI4: Phase 1: Identity Management: In place upgrade of the College’s central identity management service. Design of a new future-proofed identity service to integrate with Azure Identity management services.
• DTI5 Replacement (upgrade) Network Admission Control (NAC) system for students. An alternative solution to NAC will be considered as part of the NGN redesign work.

• Current Phase: Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 31/03/2027

The Trinity website is the university's main communications and marketing platform, promoting Trinity to a global audience. The objective of the Web Transformation Project is to eliminate risk to the website and deliver a robust, scalable, and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for the university. This in turn will improve and enhance the Trinity website with regard to security and compliance. It will ensure brand consistency through the use of consistent web templates and provide all college web authors with quick and easy publishing. It will also enable website functionality such as data capture, repurposing content, and personalisation which is vital in supporting Trinity's key objectives for student recruitment, research, and rankings.

• Current Phase: Operational/Execution Phase
• Project End Date: 31/12/2025 but new phase is in planning

The Data Hub is live, integrated with SITS, and making student recruitment data available as a set of APIs and in our HERM database schema. HERM is the Higher Education Reference Model developed for universities by UCISA in the UK and CAUDIT in Australia. The Dynamics 365 enterprise CRM is also live and available to Trinity Business School and Global Engagement. We are now working with two more business units, Trinity Careers and Development, and Trinity Innovation & Enterprise, on an application design document with a view to onboarding them onto the CRM in 2026.

• Current Phase: Initiation Phase
• Project End Date: 30/06/2026

As mobile technology has progressed and user expectations have grown, student feedback continues to highlight the need for better access to Trinity's online services. In this context, the decision was made to create an enhanced mobile app for students to replace Trinity Live. The new app will expand on Trinity Live by providing students with an expanded set of essential services needed to support their presence in the University. This will be delivered based on a very high standard of design and experience.

The Digital Transformation team is managing the delivery of this project, supported by colleagues across IT Services.

Launch of the new app is expected by the end of Q2 2026.

Some of the key expected benefits of the new app include:

• Better student satisfaction: The new app is expected to result in improved levels of student satisfaction by delivering a targeted set of essential information and services based on a high standard of user experience.
• Wider communications reach: The new app is expected to result in greater awareness of college news, events, announcements, etc by providing students with an easily accessible and compelling channel for engaging with relevant content.
• Better accessibility and inclusion: The new app is expected to result in a greater quality of experience on campus for students with special needs by delivering relevant information and services in a manner that meets high standards of accessibility.
• Higher community morale: The new app is expected to result in a greater sense of community and belonging among students by providing them with engaging content from college services, as well as club and society updates.

• Current Phase: Execution

• End Date: 30/06/2026

This project involves the upgrade of the Sierra Library system and the implementation of a new Discovery catalogue service. IT Services are upgrading the infrastructure and enabling secure connectivity between the new catalogue service and the library database. The new servers have backup and restore tests to be prepared for any outage. IT Services are also conducting security testing to check that safeguards are in place.

The LMS (Sierra) phase is to complete in Feb with the decommissioning of Stella Search Servers Inventory management will begin procurement RFT Q4 2025, with execution beginning mid Q1 2026 and deployment Q2 2026.

• Current Phase: Tender
• End Date: 31/5/2025

Careers wish to go out to tender for a new online IT system to manage the delivery of their core services and to capture and report on engagement data. This system is the primary interface with students and employers. The contract with the existing Vendor expires in August 2025. IT Services are working with the Careers service with respect to the tender, and implementation of the new service.

• Current Phase: Initiation and Strategic Planning
• End Date: 30/04/2026

The Sports management system is currently running on aging hardware and software. Sports are going to the market for a new Sports management system to ensure they remain procurement compliant and take advantage of new sports management features and functionality and to ensure the software is running on a supported backend. IT Services are working with the Sports Service to complete a tender document with a view to publishing end Q1 2025.

Trinity Sports are seeking an enterprise Sports Management system to allow its TCD customers and external public customers to procure membership for TCD and allow for the booking and pay for courses, merchandise, facilities both online and in a mobile app and provide back office support for the Trinity Sports Centre to manage its membership, course and facility bookings seamlessly while providing dashboards and reports on the members, bookings and payments.

IT Services are currently working with Estates and Facilities in the design, specification and installation of the ICT equipment required for the various new Building projects.

Current Capital building projects include:

• E3 programme of works including the Martin Naughton E3 Learning Foundry and ramp up and enabling projects
• Old Library Redevelopment programme of works including the Old Library Redevelopment and Printing House
• Trinity East programme including site enabling works, Portal and Laidlaw Library
• Trinity South Renewal Programme including Arts Building, Law School and Student Centre
• A portfolio of medium and small capital works projects

• Current Phase: Execution Phase

• End Date: 31/12/2025

This project is to provide a suitable replacement for the Library blogs service which has been offline since mid-2024. The project will complete a cloud security assessment, new supplier process, and deploy the new WordPress service. The platform will include features for collaboration with researchers external to the Library, without compromising the security. The platform will support digital preservation capture. IT Services are supporting this project with a security assessment of the new vendor.

• Current Phase: Execution Phase

• End Date: 10/03/2027

This project is to procure and a pilot a SaaS digital preservation system, including a secure access solution. This will involve the deployment, and functional implementation of a small scale preservation system on a time limited basis (<24 months). The system will be used to ingest a range of sample content along with selected high-priority collections, and provide end-user access to same, in order to test end to end workflows in preparation for a RFT for a full scale system.

The pilot will encompass a broad selection of Library held content to evaluate ingest workflows across a variety of data types.

A select number of digital archives currently held by the Library which urgently require preservation and provision of user access will also be ingested. An exit strategy will be in place to extract content and metadata at the end of the pilot.

Live University record archives are not in scope - sample test data emulating same workflow requirements will be tested. IT Services are working with Library with respect to the technical requirements. needed.

• Current Phase: Initiation Phase

• End Date: 30/06/2026

This project involves the migration of the TCard system from on-premise servers to a cloud-hosted solution, addressing end-of-life infrastructure, enhancing portal security, and introducing new functionality. IT Services are working with the Commercial Revenue Unit (CRU) with respect to the implementation of the upgraded system.