Beamerswitch LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the beamerswitch class (version 1.9).

23rd August 2022.

Jisc Digital Research Community webinar. Attended a webinar, ‘Datasets in the Wild’, part of Jisc's Digital Research Community (DRC) Monthly Meet-Up programme, which discussed ways for institutions to track the data output of their researchers and secondary uses thereof. Speakers included Nick Sheppard, Mick Eadie, Beverley Jones, Nick Syrotiuk, Chris Gibson, Holly Ranger and Nushrat Khan.

13th July 2022.

Neurodiversity Community seminar. Attended seminar by Nahory Hernandez Mancilla and George Neville on the newly formed Neurodiversity Community at the University of Bath and how the Library can better support and understand the lived experiences of those who use its services.

25th May 2022.

Bath Harvard bibliography styles for LaTeX updated. Updated bath-bst and biblatex-bath packages (version 6.0) and uploaded them to CTAN. These packages are intended for use with BibTeX and biblatex respectively, to format bibliographies in the Harvard style recommended by the University of Bath Library.

25th May 2022.

CSL style for Harvard Bath updated. Submitted update to the harvard-university-of-bath CSL style to the official CSL repository.

20th May 2022.

Libraries after Lockdown Webinar. Attended webinar ‘Repositories and Beyond – The Evolving Landscape’, part of the Libraries after Lockdown: Embracing Disruption programme, which discussed the current repository and research information management landscape and direction of travel. Speakers included Leigh Stork, Tamsin Burland, Gareth Cole and William Nixon.

29th April 2022.

IDCC reviews submitted. Submitted reviews of papers submitted to the 2022 International Digital Curation Conference.

5th April 2022.

CSL style for Harvard Bath updated. Submitted update to the harvard-university-of-bath CSL style to the official CSL repository.

4th March 2022.

Bath Harvard bibliography styles for LaTeX updated. Updated bath-bst and biblatex-bath packages (version 5.0) and uploaded them to CTAN. These packages are intended for use with BibTeX and biblatex respectively, to format bibliographies in the Harvard style recommended by the University of Bath Library.

4th March 2022.

Software Carpentry Workshop. As one of a team of three instructors, taught ‘Version Control with Git’ to students from Edinburgh University as part of a four-day hybrid (in-person and online) Software Carpentry workshop.

21st February 2022 to 24th February 2022.

Research Support Games Day 3. Gave a presentation, ‘Work, Research Data and Play: the RDM Adventure Game’ by myself, Samuel Simango and Nushrat Khan, at an online workshop on using games to support researchers. Two other serious games were presented at the event.

15th February 2022.

LaTeX dccpaper bundle updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the dccpaper bundle (version 2.3), containing LaTeX classes for typesetting papers for the IJDC and IDCC.

27th January 2022.

RDA TAB meets Chairs. Participated in an online meeting between the Technical Advisory Board of the Research Data Alliance and Working/Interest Group Chairs.

20th January 2022.

Software Carpentry Workshop. As one of a team of four instructors, taught ‘Version Control with Git’ to astronomy students from Cardiff University as part of a three-day hybrid (in-person and online) Software Carpentry workshop.

18th January 2022 to 20th January 2022.

Everyday Ableism Webinar. Attended webinar, ‘Everyday Ableism: A collective approach to challenging disability discrimination’ led by Tracy Walsh (University of Hertfordshire) and Abbie Jenkinson (College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London).

14th December 2021.

Doctoral Engagement Overview. Attended seminar by Oli Schofield, Doctoral Engagement Manager, on the work of the University of Bath Doctoral College and the ways in which it engages with doctoral students.

10th December 2021.

UKRI Open Access Policy PIDs Workshop 1. Attended virtual workshop looking at the implications of UKRI Open Access Policy changes for persistent identification of research outputs hosted by institutions.

19th November 2021.

Impact of COVID on new and returning students. Attended seminar by Catherine Bailey, Deputy Director of Student Services, on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the University's new and returning students following 18 months of lockdowns and interruptions to normal study at school, college and university.

16th November 2021.

RDA Eighteenth Plenary. Attended the Eighteenth Plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance held virtually and internationally, at which I gave a presentation on the latest release of the Metadata Standards Catalog.

3rd November 2021 to 11th November 2021.

Launch new version of RDA Metadata Standards Catalog. Launched version 2.1 of the RDA Metadata Standards Catalog. This reintroduced the authenticated write functions of the REST API, added filtering (searching) on collection endpoints, and extended the data model to include Linked Data namespaces for metadata schemes.

3rd November 2021.

CSL style for Harvard Bath updated. Submitted update to the harvard-university-of-bath CSL style to the official CSL repository.

5th October 2021.

Social Media workshop. Attended a workshop run by Tom Mason, the University's Social Media manager, with Library Research Services on how best to engage with researchers through social media.

30th September 2021.

15th European Conference on Games Based Learning. Attended virtually the 15th European Conference on Games Based Learning, presenting the RDM Adventure Game in the 9th International Educational Games Competition, and chairing a session on Movement and Board Games.

22nd September 2021 to 24th September 2021.

LaTeX dccpaper bundle updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the dccpaper bundle (version 2.2), containing LaTeX classes for typesetting papers for the IJDC and IDCC.

3rd September 2021.

Open Repositories 2021. Attended virtually the Open Repositories 2021 conference, picking up a lot of useful ideas and information about recent developments in the repository world.

7th July 2021 to 10th July 2021.

The Carpentries Instructor Training Bonus Module. Attended an online training session on how to run The Carpentries sessions entirely online.

14th May 2021.

Research Data Licensing and IPR. Spoke to the committee responsible for the Norwegian recommendations on licensing and reuse of research data on consequences of recommendations for licensing data.

6th May 2021.

RDA Seventeenth Plenary. Attended the Seventeenth Plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance, based in Edinburgh but held virtually, at which I gave a presentation on registering metadata converters in the Metadata Standards Catalog.

20th April 2021 to 23rd April 2021.

Beamerswitch LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the beamerswitch class (version 1.8).

14th April 2021.

Juno Live training. Attended training session on how to run online workshops using the Juno Live platform.

8th April 2021.

RDM Adventure game launched in South Africa. Released the Research Data Management Adventure (at Stellenbosch) for use as a training tool for postgraduate and early career researchers.

8th March 2021.

CSL style for Harvard Bath updated. Submitted update to the harvard-university-of-bath CSL style to the official CSL repository.

26th February 2021.

Bath Harvard bibliography styles for LaTeX updated. Updated bath-bst and biblatex-bath packages (version 4.0) and uploaded them to CTAN. These packages are intended for use with BibTeX and biblatex respectively, to format bibliographies in the Harvard style recommended by the University of Bath Library.

25th February 2021.

Cabinet of Curiosities reimplementation. Launched a reimplementation of the University of Bath Archives' Cabinet of Curiosities website, now with an administrative backend.

1st February 2021.

Digital Accessibility Initiative. Attended virtually a meeting of the Data Accessibility Initiative team to review feedback on the University's draft policy.

28th January 2021.

LaTeX dccpaper bundle updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the dccpaper bundle (version 2.1), containing LaTeX classes for typesetting papers for the IJDC and IDCC.

25th January 2021.

Oxref LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the Oxref Biblatex styles (version 2.2).

19th January 2021.

Research Support Games Day 2. Attended online workshop on using games to support researchers. Around ten serious games were showcased; there were also talks on transferable skills in regular games, and whether and how serious games intended to be run in person can be run online.

18th December 2020.

Supporting users of EndNote and LaTeX. Attended meeting with colleagues about support the Library offers to EndNote and LaTeX users, my interest being in the LaTeX support aspect. As a result of this meeting, a new LaTeX support mailing list was set up.

3rd December 2020.

DataCite Open Hours. Attended virtually a DataCite Open Hours meeting summarising the year's developments in quiz form.

3rd December 2020.

RDM Adventure game launched. Released the Research Data Management Adventure (at Bath) for use as a training tool for postgraduate and early career researchers.

1st December 2020.

RDA Sixteenth Plenary. Attended the Sixteenth Plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance, based in Costa Rica but held virtually, at which I gave updates on progress with the Metadata Standards Catalog and Recommended Metadata Element Set.

9th November 2020 to 12th November 2020.

Oxref LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the Oxref Biblatex styles (version 2.1).

19th October 2020.

Researchfish Interoperability Workshop. Attended the Researchfish Interoperability Workshop, discussing whether and how to run another pilot bulk upload of dataset information into ResearchFish, and what other interoperability targets to address.

15th October 2020.

Building Metadata Standards Within Engineering Disciplines and Communities. Gave a presentation, ‘Towards a metadata Rosetta Stone: The RDA MIG Metadata Element Set’, at an online seminar organised by the Research Data Alliance RDM in Engineering Interest Group.

9th October 2020.

What is RDA and why should I attend VP16. Attended webinar in support of the RDA Virtual Plenary based in Costa Rica.

17th September 2020.

Launch new version of RDA Metadata Standards Catalog. Launched version 2.0 of the RDA Metadata Standards Catalog. This was a complete rewrite of the underlying code and data model, replacing hard-coded and pattern-matched authority terms with configurable folksonomies, and including a more standardised read-only REST API and comprehensive unit testing.

9th September 2020.

DataCite Open Hours. Attended virtually a DataCite Open Hours meeting about the Registered Service Provider Programme.

8th July 2020.

Beamerswitch LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the beamerswitch class (version 1.7).

6th June 2020.

Annotation Tooling for Metadata. Participated in ad-hoc workshop on tools to support creating and preserving stand-off annotations of research data files.

15th May 2020.

Researchfish Virtual Data Sharing Workshop. Attended the Researchfish Virtual Data Sharing Workshop, discussing plans to allow and control how data is shared by researchers and funders.

23rd April 2020.

DataCite Open Hours. Attended virtually a DataCite Open Hours meeting about implementing the new consortia membership model and details of the upcoming member meeting.

1st April 2020.

RDA Virtual Plenary. Attended the Research Metadata Schemas Working Group meeting as part of the virtual RDA Fifteenth Plenary.

1st April 2020.

RDA Virtual Plenary. Attended joint session of the Research Data Management in Engineering Interest Group and the Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Data Interest Group as part of the virtual RDA Fifteenth Plenary.

26th March 2020.

Journal article published. My article, ‘Metadata for Better Data’, was published in Catalogue and Index, the journal of the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group.

23rd March 2020.

Conference paper accepted. Received notification that my 24×7 talk proposal, ‘Hold that thought: DOIs and Early Access to Datasets’, had been accepted for the Open Repositories 2020 Conference, though the conference itself was postponed to 2021.

23rd March 2020.

Journal article submitted. Submitted article, ‘Metadata for Better Data’, to the journal Catalogue and Index, published by the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group.

2nd March 2020.

International Digital Curation Conference. Presented a lightning talk, ‘The Tombstone Protocol: An Undertaking for Unfortunate Events’, at the 15th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC20). This talk was a runner-up for the best lightning talk prize.

17th February 2020 to 19th February 2020.

DataCite Member Meeting. Attended virtually a DataCite Member Meeting discussing proposed changes to the membership model.

5th February 2020.

Data quality checking script. Adapted script that performs specific data quality checks on records selected for consideration in the REF 2021 return, so that it also flags up when changes have been made subsequent to the last manual review of the record.

4th February 2020.

Oxref LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the Oxref Biblatex styles (version 2.0.1).

27th January 2020.

Conference paper submitted. Submitted a 24×7 talk proposal, ‘Hold that thought: DOIs and Early Access to Datasets’, to the Open Repositories 2020 Conference.

20th January 2020.

Beamerswitch LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the beamerswitch class (version 1.6.1).

20th January 2020.

Bath Harvard bibliography styles for LaTeX updated. Updated bath-bst and biblatex-bath packages (version 3.2) and uploaded them to CTAN. These packages are intended for use with BibTeX and biblatex respectively, to format bibliographies in the Harvard style recommended by the University of Bath Library.

16th January 2020.

DataCite Open Hours. Attended virtually a DataCite Open Hours meeting about data metrics badges, the DataCite Member Survey 2019, and proposed changes to the membership model.

15th January 2020.

LaTeX dccpaper bundle updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the dccpaper bundle (version 2.0), containing LaTeX classes for typesetting papers for the IJDC and IDCC.

15th January 2020.

Staff Development Programme. Trialled staff development session on using R (part 2), given by Nushrat Khan.

8th January 2020.

Staff Development Programme. Trialled staff development session on using R (part 1), given by Nushrat Khan.

18th December 2019.

Staff Development Programme. Attended session on the principles of inclusive design, given by assistive technologists Tim Winship and Luiza Bell.

19th November 2019.

DataCite Open Hours. Attended virtually a DataCite Open Hours meeting about account structure changes in Fabrica, and Scholix links.

6th November 2019.

iConference reviews submitted. Submitted reviews of papers submitted to the 2020 iConference.

28th October 2019.

Conference paper accepted. Received notification that my lightning talk, ‘The Tombstone Protocol: An Undertaking for Unfortunate Events’, was accepted for the 15th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC20).

2nd October 2019.

Trip report submitted. Submitted a report on the Research Support Games Day workshop to Piglet, the library staff newsletter.

1st October 2019.

Data quality checking script. Wrote script to perform specific data quality checks on records selected for consideration in the REF 2021 return.

26th September 2019.

Oxref LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the Oxref Biblatex styles (version 2.0).

20th September 2019.

CSL style for Harvard Bath updated. Submitted update to the harvard-university-of-bath CSL style to the official CSL repository.

13th September 2019.

Research Support Games Day. Attended the Research Support Games Day organised by Glasgow Caledonian University. I experienced sessions on using Python (or Xerte) for RDM games, ‘The Publishing Trap’ by UK Copyright Literacy, and ‘LEGO: Metadata for Reproducibility’ devised by the University of Glasgow.

11th September 2019.

Visit to SS Great Britain Library. Attended a visit organised by the University Staff Development Group to the SS Great Britain Library, Bristol.

3rd September 2019.

Diagnostic script. Updated and expanded script to diagnose issues with the display of thesis records in the University's Research Portal.

2nd September 2019.

Oxref LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the Oxref Biblatex styles (version 1.2).

2nd September 2019.

Bath Harvard bibliography styles for LaTeX updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the biblatex-bath package (version 3.1), for use with biblatex to format bibliographies in the Harvard style recommended by the University of Bath Library.

29th August 2019.

Carpentries Instructor qualification. Received confirmation and certification that I had qualified as a Carpentries Instructor.

28th August 2019.

Carpentries Teaching Demonstration. Gave an online teaching demonstration as part of the Instructor Training checkout process for The Carpentries.

22nd August 2019.

ESIP Summer Meeting. Gave a presentation, ‘A Generalist Perspective on Data Citation’, as part of a panel, ‘Data Citations: What Makes a Good Citation?’, at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting. I attended remotely.

17th July 2019.

CSL style for Harvard Bath updated. Submitted update to the harvard-university-of-bath CSL style to the official CSL repository.

10th July 2019.

Bath Harvard bibliography styles for LaTeX updated. Updated bath-bst and biblatex-bath packages (version 3.0) and uploaded them to CTAN. These packages are intended for use with BibTeX and biblatex respectively, to format bibliographies in the Harvard style recommended by the University of Bath Library.

10th July 2019.

Carpentries Community Discussion. Participated in a Carpentries Community Discussion as part of the Instructor Training checkout process for The Carpentries.

9th July 2019.

Conference paper submitted. Submitted a lightning talk, ‘The Tombstone Protocol: An Undertaking for Unfortunate Events’, to the 15th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC20).

28th June 2019.

Open Research Hub demo. Attended demonstration of the Jisc Open Research Hub by Tamsin Burland.

27th June 2019.

The Carpentries Instructor Training. Attended Instructor Training for Librarians, organised by University College Dublin in conjunction with the co-located LIBER Conference, with a view to becoming a certified Instructor for Library Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry.

24th June 2019 to 25th June 2019.

DataCite Open Hours. Attended virtually a DataCite Open Hours meeting which included talks on PID OPIDoR and EzDOIMenu, which can perform mass minting/updating operations, and how the USGS uses DOIs to support impact assessment.

19th June 2019.

Open Repositories 2019. Presented paper, ‘Scratching that itch: Process improvement and problem solving in the University of Bath Research Data Archive’, at the Open Repositories 2019 conference.

10th June 2019 to 13th June 2019.

Beamerswitch LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the beamerswitch class (version 1.6).

6th June 2019.

PGcert in Biocuration webinar. Gave webinar on licensing research data to students on the PGcert in Biocuration course run by the European Bioinformatics Institute.

28th May 2019.

Set up UKOLN web hosting. Reconfigured server to restore the original ‘flattened’ versions of the UKOLN website to the Web, instead of relying on redirects to Web archives.

22nd May 2019.

GW4 Research Data Workshop. Attended and took the minutes of a workshop with representatives from the research data teams at Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter reviewing progress against the 2014 Green Paper (which explored the potential of the group), working on ongoing group projects, and discussing ways of supporting the broader Open Research agenda.

21st May 2019.

Server migration. Migrated the live instance of the Research Data Archive over to (a) a new server, (b) a different Linux-based operating system, (c) a new version of Perl, and (d) a new version of EPrints.

14th May 2019.

DataCite Open Hours. Attended virtually a DataCite Open Hours meeting about usage statistics in DataCite Search, the statistics portal, and metadata provenance.

6th May 2019.

Staff Development Programme. Attended session run by Caroline Dangerfield (Head of International Relations) on the University of Bath’s Internationalisation Strategy.

1st May 2019.

Research Data Alliance blog contribution. Contributed a post entitled ‘The Joint Meeting Of The Metadata Groups At The 13th RDA Plenary’ to the Research Data Alliance blog, in my capacity as an Expert grant holder.

17th April 2019.

RDA Thirteenth Plenary. Attended the Thirteenth Plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance, at which I gave a live demonstration of the Metadata Standards Catalog.

2nd April 2019 to 4th April 2019.

Launch new instance of RDA Metadata Standards Catalog. Set up new server at Bath to host a new instance of the RDA Metadata Standards Catalog, since the previous version (hosted elsewhere) proved too unstable and hard to administer.

29th March 2019.

Trip report submitted. Submitted a report on the March 2019 EPrints UK User Group meeting to Piglet, the library staff newsletter.

26th March 2019.

EPrints UK User Group. Attended the EPrints UK User Group, where we discussed adaptations of EPrints to capture esteem, the new flavours of EPrints 3.4, capturing metrics, and future community development projects.

14th March 2019.

Interview about Research Data Archive. Katherine McNeill and Erin Wise from Harvard Business School interviewed me about how we keep track of datasets in the Research Data Archive and our institutional Current Research Information System (CRIS).

8th March 2019.

LaTeX dccpaper bundle updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the dccpaper bundle (version 1.8), containing LaTeX classes for typesetting papers for the IJDC and IDCC.

8th March 2019.

Open Repositories 2019 paper proposal accepted. The paper proposal I submitted to the Open Repositories 2019 conference, ‘Scratching that itch: Process improvement and problem solving in the University of Bath Research Data Archive’, was accepted.

7th March 2019.

Oxref LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the Oxref Biblatex styles (version 1.1).

19th February 2019.

Oxref LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the Oxref Biblatex styles (version 1.0).

15th February 2019.

CSL style for Harvard Bath updated. Submitted new version of the harvard-university-of-bath CSL style to the official CSL repository, thereby taking over responsibility for maintaining it.

6th February 2019.

Library Staff Seminar. Gave a repeat of the presentation, ‘Serious Gaming: Creating a Research Data Management Adventure’, by myself and Samuel Simango, at the Library Staff Seminar ‘Have you got 20 minutes?’.

31st January 2019.

Beamerswitch LaTeX package updated. Uploaded to CTAN an update to the beamerswitch class (version 1.5).

28th January 2019.

Set up UKOLN redirects. Set up a new server to serve up redirects to prevent links to the UKOLN website breaking entirely.

17th January 2019.

DataCite Open Hours. Attended virtually a DataCite Open Hours meeting about the link-checker service, JSON support, search improvements and various fixes.

16th January 2019.

Open Repositories 2019 submission. Submitted proposal for paper, ‘Scratching that itch: Process improvement and problem solving in the University of Bath Research Data Archive’, to the Open Repositories 2019 conference.

11th January 2019.

Diagnostic script. Wrote script to diagnose issues with the display of thesis records in the University's Research Portal.

10th January 2019.