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 4th December 2015 and 4th December 2021.
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.
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.
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.
Presentations
- Metadata Standards Catalog: Current Status
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3–11 November 2021.
- Research Data Management Adventure
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22 September 2021.9th International Educational Games Competition (IEGC 2021), Brighton.
- Consequences of Recommendations for Licensing Data
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6 May 2021.Meeting of the Committee ‘Utredning av lisensiering for deling og gjenbruk av forskningsdata’, Zoom.
- Registering Converters in the Metadata Standards Catalog
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20–23 April 2021.
- Introduction to the Recommended Metadata Element Set
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9–12 November 2020.Research Data Alliance Sixteenth Plenary Meeting: "Knowledge Ecology", Costa Rica.
- Progress to date on the Metadata Standards Catalog and Metadata Element Set
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9–12 November 2020.Research Data Alliance Sixteenth Plenary Meeting: "Knowledge Ecology", Costa Rica.
- Towards a metadata Rosetta Stone: The RDA MIG Metadata Element Set
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9 October 2020.RDA Research Data Management in Engineering Interest Group Seminar: "Building Metadata Standards Within Engineering Disciplines and Communities", Zoom.
- 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.
Posters
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