% Downloaded from https://alexball.me.uk/docs/ball2016ppf/biblatex @unpublished{ball2016ppf , author = {Alex Ball} , title = {The Past, Present and Future of the Metadata Standards Catalog} , date = {2016-11-02} , venue = {The Studio, Birmingham} , howpublished = {Presentation delivered at ‘Research Data Alliance (RDA) UK workshop’, The Studio, Birmingham} , abstract = {The Metadata Standards Directory Working Group was formally endorsed in August 2013. It quickly joined forces with the Digital Curation Centre to develop its Disciplinary Metadata Catalogue into an international, community-maintained resource. Following its successful completion a follow-on group, the Metadata Standards Catalog Working Group, was proposed. It was endorsed in January 2016 and is working on a new version of the directory with more features and, crucially, an API for machine-to-machine access.} }