Alex Ball — Activities
This page contains a record of my activities since joining UKOLN. Listed below are:
- Tasks I have completed
- Important meetings and conferences I have attended
- Events relevant to my professional development
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In progress
DCC
- Institutional support
- IJDC: publication and impact monitoring
- Serving on the IJDC Editorial Board and IDCC Programme Committee.
CCMDIR
- Initial case studies to establish functional requirements for the Community Capability Model Framework.
- Further case studies to validate the Community Capability Model Framework in the context of Engineering.
Smart Research Framework
- Case studies to establish the user needs and expectations regarding a cloud-based Electronic Laboratory Notebook system for UK Higher Education.
So far
By default this page displays activity within the past six months. You can view different date ranges using the form below.
Here's what I did between 16th November 2011 and 16th May 2012.
| Date | Entry |
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| 2012-05-01 |
Institutional support training.
Training day for the DCC's Institutional Support Officers and Senior Institutional Support Officers.
DCC
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| 2012-03-30 |
Conference paper submitted.
‘Functional and Architectural Requirements
for Metadata: Supporting Discovery and Management of Scientific Data’ by Jian Qin, Jane Greenberg and myself submitted to the DC 2012 conference.
DC-SAM
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| 2012-03-23 |
JISC RDM Planning Projects Workshop.
Gave a demonstration, with Uday Thangarajah, of the RAIDmap data record associative tool at the JISC workshop ‘Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning’.
REDm-MED
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| 2012-03-15 |
Case Study Interview.
Interviewed Cameron Neylon for SRF Case Study.
SRF
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| 2012-03-14 |
Research Writing Skills.
Attended training session on research writing skills conducted by Trevor Day.
Staff Development
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| 2012-03-13 |
Case Study Interview.
Interviewed Karen Edler for SRF Case Study.
SRF
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| 2012-03-08 |
SDPR.
With Michael Day.
Staff Development
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| 2012-02-09 |
IJDC Shadowing.
Demonstrated administration of IJDC to Marieke Guy.
DCC
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| 2012-02-09 |
CERIF Tutorial.
Attended training session on CERIF organized by Rosemary Russell.
Staff Development
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| 2012-02-08 |
CCMDIR White Paper version 1.
Completed version 1 of the CCMDIR White Paper for discussion at a Workshop in Melbourne on 10 February.
CCMDIR
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| 2012-01-30 |
Workshop proposal submitted.
‘Introduction to supporting data citation’ by Monica Duke and myself, submitted to JCDL 2012.
DCC
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| 2012-01-19 |
CRIS Briefing.
Attended briefing on Current Research Information Systems and the CERIF standard, organized by Research360.
Research360
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| 2012-01-17 – 2012-01-18 |
DCC Face-to-Face.
Novotel Tower Bridge, London.
DCC
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| 2012-01-11 |
CARDIO Training.
Trained participants in the Research360 project in the use of the CARDIO online tool.
DCC, Research360
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| 2011-12-14 – 2011-12-16 |
DCC Roadshow.
Attended all three days of the DCC Roadshow in Cardiff, and on the third day gave a presentation on data licensing.
DCC
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| 2011-12-12 |
All Staff Contact Day.
Presented, with Michael Day, some perspectives on research impact. The day also featured sessions on blogging, the new-look Ariadne, and setting up Communities of Interest within UKOLN.
Staff Development
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| 2011-12-08 |
IDCC Workshop: On the importance of linking.
Gave a presentation, ‘Citing Datasets and Linking Them to Publications’, at the workshop ‘On the importance of linking: Planning, provenance and citation’ at IDCC 2011.
DCC
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| 2011-12-06 – 2011-12-07 |
7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 2011).
Presented poster, ‘Research Data Management for Mechanical Engineering Departments’ by myself, Mansur Darlington, Uday Thangarajah, Chris McMahon and Liz Lyon, at IDCC 2011, Bristol.
DCC, REDm-MED
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| 2011-12-05 |
IDCC Workshop: CCMDIR.
Co-hosted a workshop, ‘Community Capability Model for Data Intensive Research’, with Liz Lyon and Michael Day.
CCMDIR
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| 2011-12-01 – 2011-12-02 |
DataCite General Assembly.
Represented the DCC at the DataCite General Assembly and associated meetings.
DCC
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| 2011-11-30 |
22nd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop.
Gave presentation on ‘Research Data Management with the Digital Curation Centre’ at the Data Management breakout session.
DCC
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| 2011-11-21 |
IPR and Digital Preservation Briefing Day.
Attended a briefing day on Intellectual Property and Digital Preservation, organized by the Digital Preservation Coalition and JISC Media.
DCC
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