Alex Ball — Documents
The full text is available for most of these documents; the others are not intended for widespread dissemination, but I can send you a copy if you are interested and ask me nicely.
Some documents also have records within the University of Bath Research Portal.
You can filter the list by date and type. The earliest publication listed is from October 2003.
Here are my publications and public presentations from between 5th April 2014 and 5th April 2020.
Articles
- Metadata for Better Data
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March 2020.Catalogue & Index 198, 17-20.
- Choose Your Own Research Data Management Guidance
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September 2017.International Journal of Digital Curation [ISSN 1746-8256] 12:1, 13-21.
- Editorial
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June 2015.International Journal of Digital Curation [ISSN 1746-8256] 10:1, i-v.
- Editorial
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December 2014.International Journal of Digital Curation [ISSN 1746-8256] 9:2, i-iii.
- Building a Disciplinary Metadata Standards Directory
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July 2014.International Journal of Digital Curation [ISSN 1746-8256] 9:1, 142-151.
- Show Me The Data: The Pilot UK Research Data Registry
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July 2014.International Journal of Digital Curation [ISSN 1746-8256] 9:1, 132-141.
- Editorial
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July 2014.International Journal of Digital Curation [ISSN 1746-8256] 9:1, i-iv.
Book chapters
- The Minimum Mandatory Metadata Sets for the KIM Project and RAIDmap
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January 2017.Developing Metadata Application Profiles, ed. Mariana Curado Malta, Ana Alice Baptista, Paul Walk (Hershey, PA: IGI Global), 37-64.
Reports
- RDA Metadata Standards Directory Working Group: Final Report
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January 2016.Research Data Alliance.
- How to Track the Impact of Research Data with Metrics
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June 2015.Digital Curation Centre.
- Work Package 3: Metadata Development and Standardisation
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May 2014.Digital Curation Centre.
- UK Research Data Registry Mapping Schemes
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May 2014.Digital Curation Centre.
Conference papers
- The Tombstone Protocol: An Undertaking for Unfortunate Events
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17–20 February 2020.15th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC20): "Collective Curation: the many hands that make data work", Croke Park, Dublin.
- Scratching That Itch: Process Improvement and Problem Solving in the University of Bath Research Data Archive
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10–13 June 2019.Open Repositories 2019: "All the User Needs", Universität Hamburg, Germany.
- Building a Research Data Registry for the UK
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June 2014.9th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2014): "Towards repository ecosystems", Helsinki Congress Paasitorni, Helsinki.
Presentations
- Hold That Thought: DOIs and Early Access to Datasets
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1–4 June 2020.Open Repositories 2020: "Open for All", Stellenbosch, South Africa.
- A Generalist Perspective on Data Citation
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16–19 July 2019.2019 ESIP Summer Meeting: "Data to Action: Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information", Tacoma, Washington.
- Licensing Research Data
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28 May 2019.PGcert Biocuration Webinars - Module 3, Online.
- Serious Gaming: Creating a Research Data Management Adventure
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15–16 November 2018.15th Stellenbosch University Library Symposium: "Smarter Libraries: User Experience (UX) in Action", Stellenbosch Institute for Advance Studies, South Africa.
- RDA Metadata
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15–16 October 2018.GO FAIR Metadata for Machines (M4M) Workshop, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Metadata Standards Catalog: End of Part 2
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21–23 March 2018.Research Data Alliance Eleventh Plenary Meeting: "From Data to Knowledge", Berlin, Germany.
- Mapping to the RDA MIG Metadata Element Set
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4–5 October 2017.EOSCpilot Data Interoperability Technical Workshop, Genome Campus, Hinxton.
- RDA Metadata Standards Catalog and Metadata Element Set
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4–5 October 2017.EOSCpilot Data Interoperability Technical Workshop, Genome Campus, Hinxton.
- Archiving research data at the University of Bath
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September 2017.Springer Nature Meet the Expert Webinar: "Best Practices for Tracking, Archiving and Sharing of Research Data".
- Metadata Standards Catalog: Demonstration and update
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19–21 September 2017.Research Data Alliance Tenth Plenary Meeting: "Better Data, Better Decisions", Montréal, Canada.
- Metadata as Standard: Improving interoperability through the Research Data Alliance
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September 2017.
- Metadata: The Spirit of Research Data Management?
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June 2017.Research Infrastructures in Social Sciences and Humanities: their potential and best practices in Italy, University of Milan-Bicocca.
- Flying the Flag: In Support of Metadata Standards
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24–25 May 2017.Open Research Data Management: Policies and Tools, University of Milan.
- Choose Your Own Research Data Management Guidance
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February 2017.12th International Digital Curation Conference: "Upstream, Downstream: embedding digital curation workflows for data science, scholarship and society", Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
- The Past, Present and Future of the Metadata Standards Catalog
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November 2016.Research Data Alliance (RDA) UK workshop, The Studio, Birmingham.
- Making Data Better by Adding Some Meta(data)
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June 2016.2nd Data Management for TEDDINET Workshop: "Data formats and tools", University of Bath.
- Reflections on Research Data Service Discoverability
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April 2016.
- CASRAI Research Dataset-Level Metrics
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April 2016.BIOCADDIE Webinar: "CASRAI: Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information".
- Metadata Standards Directory
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February 2016.
- Dataset-Level Metrics: Knowledge Exchange, DCC, CASRAI
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November 2015.BioMedBridges Symposium: "Open bridges for life science data", Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton.
- Making the Case for Sharing with Indicators of Research Data Impact
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October 2015.Library Connect Webinar: "How to Assist Researchers in Sharing their Research Data".
- Summary of the Activities of the Metadata Standards Directory Working Group
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1–4 September 2015.15th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2015): "Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities", São Paulo, Brazil.
- Using CRIS to power research data discovery
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May 2015.EuroCRIS Membership Meeting: "CRIS in the Information Landscape: The place and role of CRIS to support and manage Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science", AMUE, Paris.
- RDDS: Metadata Development
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April 2015.UK Research Data Discovery Service Workshop, Prospero House, London, UK.
- Summary of the activities of the Metadata Standards Directory Working Group
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9–11 March 2015.Research Data Alliance Fifth Plenary: "Adopt-a-Deliverable", Paradise Point, San Diego, CA.
- Metadata Standards Directory Working Group
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13–14 November 2014.RDA Coordinating Chairs Meeting, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD.
- Metadata for Impact: Lessons from the UK
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September 2014.3rd EUDAT Conference, De Meervaart Conference Centre, Amsterdam.
- Research Data Management: Resources from the Digital Curation Centre
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September 2014.RENU Autumn Workshop: "Open Access & Data Curation for Universities", Oxford Brookes University.
- Lost in Translation: Technological Views on Preserving CAD
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August 2014.Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists, the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, and the Society of American Archivists (Archives*Records) 2014: "Ensuring Access", Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C.
- Preparing for the UK Research Data Registry and Discovery Service
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July 2014.Repositories Fringe 2014, Informatics Forum, Edinburgh.
- Phase 1 RDRDS Metadata
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June 2014.Jisc RDRDS Phase 2 Kick-Off and Requirements Gathering Workshop, Royal College of Physicians, London.
Posters
- Towards a UK Research Data Discovery Service
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9–12 February 2015.10th International Digital Curation Conference: "Ten years back, ten years forward: achievements, lessons and the future for digital curation", 30 Euston Square, London.