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.

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Here are my publications and public presentations from between 28th March 2018 and 28th March 2024.

Articles

Metadata for Better Data
Alexander Ball
March 2020.
Catalogue & Index 198, 17-20.

Book chapters

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Reports

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Conference papers

The Tombstone Protocol: An Undertaking for Unfortunate Events
Alexander Ball
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
Alexander Ball
10–13 June 2019.
Open Repositories 2019: "All the User Needs", Universität Hamburg, Germany.

Presentations

Work, Research Data and Play: the RDM Adventure Game
Alexander Ball; Samuel Simango; Nushrat Khan
15 February 2022.
Metadata Standards Catalog: Current Status
Alexander Ball
3–11 November 2021.
Research Data Management Adventure
Alexander Ball; Samuel Simango; Nushrat Khan
22 September 2021.
9th International Educational Games Competition (IEGC 2021), Brighton.
Consequences of Recommendations for Licensing Data
Alexander Ball
6 May 2021.
Meeting of the Committee ‘Utredning av lisensiering for deling og gjenbruk av forskningsdata’, Zoom.
Registering Converters in the Metadata Standards Catalog
Alexander Ball
20–23 April 2021.
Introduction to the Recommended Metadata Element Set
Alexander Ball
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
Alexander Ball
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
Alexander Ball
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
Alexander Ball
1–4 June 2020.
Open Repositories 2020: "Open for All", Stellenbosch, South Africa.
A Generalist Perspective on Data Citation
Alexander Ball
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
Alexander Ball
28 May 2019.
PGcert Biocuration Webinars - Module 3, Online.
Serious Gaming: Creating a Research Data Management Adventure
Alexander Ball; Samuel Simango
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
Keith Jeffery; Alexander Ball
15–16 October 2018.
GO FAIR Metadata for Machines (M4M) Workshop, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Posters

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