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Agri-food Data Canada
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At ADC hosted at the University of Guelph we are creating tools and training that will increase the value of research data. https://agrifooddatacanada.ca
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · 2d
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Whether you’re working with clinical measurements, survey responses, or experimental results, this feature lets you to catch outliers, prevent errors, and ensure your data adheres to the standards you’ve set—all in a user-friendly interface.

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Semantic Engine: Range verification - Agri-food Data Canada
Streamlining Data Documentation in Research In of research, data documentation is often a complex and time-consuming task. To help researchers better document their data ADC has created the Semantic E...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · 23d
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Shared data research infrastructure for collective benefits.

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From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: Building a System That Grows with Your Research - Agri-food Data Canada
Part of the blog series on Collaborative Research IT Infrastructure In our last post, we explored how shared storage provides more than just space—it delivers reliability, cost-effectiveness, and comp...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Sep 19
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Agri-food Data Canada (ADC) has created data documentation tools that can easily fit into the AI world.

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AI and data - Agri-food Data Canada
Alrighty let's briefly introduce this topic. AI or LLMs are the latest shiny object in the world of research and everyone wants to use it and create really cool things! I, myself, am just starting to ...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Sep 5
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Not only does GitHub make it easy to track changes over time, but it also automatically generates derived identifiers every time you save your work.

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Derived identifiers in GitHub - Agri-food Data Canada
At Agri-food Data Canada (ADC), we often emphasize the importance of content-derived identifiers—unique fingerprints generated from the actual content of a resource. These identifiers are especially v...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Aug 29
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From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: The Benefits of Shared Storage

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From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: The Benefits of Shared Storage - Agri-food Data Canada
Part of the blog series on Collaborative Research IT Infrastructure In our last post, we debunked the myth that shared infrastructure reduces research autonomy. In fact, we showed how a shared system ...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Aug 15
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Understanding metadata at ADC.

Metadata is data that is about other data. Read more at our blog post.

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Understanding Metadata at ADC - Agri-food Data Canada
At Agri-food Data Canada (ADC), we are developing tools to help researchers create high-quality, machine-readable metadata. But what exactly is metadata, and what types does ADC work with? What Is Met...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Jul 25
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At the Ontario Dairy and Beef Research Centres, we’ve reached an exciting milestone: all of our core livestock data is now centralized in a single database.

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All the Data, One Place — Now What? - Agri-food Data Canada
At the Ontario Dairy and Beef Research Centres, we’ve reached an exciting milestone: all of our core livestock data — from milk yield and feed intake to activity, body weight, veterinary treatments, h...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Jul 11
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These are questions that archivists face everyday – but as a researcher – what do you think? Is the data you collected 10, 15, 20, 40 years ago have value? Should we make it FAIR???

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To keep or let go? Historical data sources - Agri-food Data Canada
I've been talking about data ownership in a few different ways and I have also been digging into these wonderful historical data sources. BUT! Where do we draw the line? Let's be honest that's another...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Jul 9
Wow, that's a lot of ways to name things!

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Naming Conventions in Modern Computing Systems
This AI-generated report examines the naming conventions in modern computing systems, analyzing their historical foundations and cross-domain applications. It categorizes naming styles into primary (c...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Jul 4
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Can you use an LLM to write an OCA schema?

While you can’t use an LLM to fully generate a valid OCA schema on its own, you can use it to speed up the process.

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Can You Use an LLM to Write an OCA Schema? - Agri-food Data Canada
Short answer: Not really — but also, kind of. Why you can’t just use an LLM to write a schema At first glance, writing an OCA (Overlays Capture Architecture) schema might seem simple. After all, it's ...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Jun 27
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Data Ownership – is it a thing?

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Data Ownership – is it a thing? - Agri-food Data Canada
Alrighty folks - this topic is getting hot and I love it! Time to move out of my lane and talk a bit about producer data - I'm referring to the wealth of data collected on dairy farms, sheep operation...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Jun 20
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Unit Framing!

Documenting units can be ambiguous. The Semantic Engine supports a new feature called 'unit framing'. With unit framing you can write the units you want, and then you add their UCUM unit code (if it exists) to be clear.

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Unit framing to standardize units - Agri-food Data Canada
In research and data-intensive environments, precision and clarity are critical. Yet one of the most common sources of confusion—often overlooked—is how units of measure are written and interpreted. T...
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microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · Jun 18
At @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social we are building the www.semanticengine.org to help researchers write better metadata schemas. And we also have a data verifier to find those empty data cells.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jun 5
🧵New paper + open database drop!
The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data.
A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes
Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Jun 6
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Custom format rules

Now on the Semantic Engine, when you describe your data by writing a schema you can add custom machine-readable rules for the format your data should take. This helps to improve data quality and analysis.

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Custom format rules - Agri-food Data Canada
When designing a data schema, you're not only choosing what data to collect but also how that data should be structured. Format rules help ensure consistency by defining the expected structure for spe...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · May 26
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Architecture of OCA Schema Language

- OCA embeds digests (specifically, OCA uses SAIDs)
- OCA is organized by features

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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · May 16
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From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: Debunking the Myths of Research Autonomy in a Shared System

Autonomy in research isn’t about managing everything alone—it’s about having the freedom to explore, test, and innovate without unnecessary friction.

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From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: Debunking the Myths of Research Autonomy in a Shared System - Agri-food Data Canada
Part of the blog series on Collaborative Research IT Infrastructure In our last post, we explored why a shared infrastructure makes sense—highlighting how collaborative systems reduce costs, improve s...
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Dryad @datadryad.bsky.social · May 13
Why share data and code? Because you never know when or how it can contribute to future work. In this example, researchers investigate the impact of cooler climates on palms using #opendata and #opencode to create a new analysis🌴🌴🌴

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2024 article▶️ bit.ly/3GRVPVa
Dryad | Data -- Chilling out: Cooler climates triggered divergence of Sabal (Arecaceae: Coryphoideae: Sabaleae) at the end of the mid-Miocene climatic optimum
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · May 9
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Format rules for data

Format restrictions may seem technical, but they’re essential to building reliable, reusable, and clean data.

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Format rules for data - Agri-food Data Canada
When you’re building a data schema you’re making decisions not only about what data to collect, but also how it should be structured. One of the most useful tools you have is format restrictions. What...
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Climate-Smart Data Collaboration Centre (CS-DCC) @cs-dcc.bsky.social · May 6
Much of the data collected by researchers is not easily understandable and usable by others – or even sometimes ourselves! The Semantic Engine, created by the researchers at Agri-food Data Canada @uofguelph.bsky.social is here to help break down these barriers to open science: www.semanticengine.org
Data Tool Spotlight: Semantic Engine, From Agri-Food Data Canada at the University of Guelph
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Climate-Smart Data Collaboration Centre (CS-DCC) @cs-dcc.bsky.social · May 6
La plupart des données recueillies par les chercheurs sont difficiles à comprendre et à exploiter par d'autres, et parfois par nous-mêmes! Le Semantic Engine, créé par les chercheurs de @uofguelph.bsky.social, contribue à éliminer ces obstacles à la science ouverte : www.semanticengine.org
Présentation des outils de données: Semantic Engine, de Agri-Food Data Canada à l'Université de Guelph
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U of G McLaughlin Library @uofglibrary.bsky.social · May 6
We're gearing up for the summer semester, U of G! The library has so much to offer students, researchers, faculty and instructors this semester. Read this article to learn about upcoming workshops and programming, appointments, eLearning resources, and more: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/news/support....
Supporting your academics and research this semester. Image of the McLaughlin Library in the background.
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · May 2
ADC's Carly Huitema gave a presentation at the Trust over IP Ecosystem & Governance Working Group meeting this Thursday about schemas.

View the recording at the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust YouTube channel

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#FAIRdata #DataSharing #AgriData #Metadata
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · May 2
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Historical data – challenges and more ownership quandries

Extracting decades old data from the Ontario Forage Crops Committee (OFCC) forage crop trials.

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Historical data – challenges and more ownership quandries - Agri-food Data Canada
I've been trying really hard to - as they say - "Stay in my lane" for these data ownership conversations. Sticking to the research data front as that is my comfort zone and that's the world I live and...
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Agri-food Data Canada @agrifooddatacan.bsky.social · Apr 25
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Identifiers and identities

Identity is a combination of both an identifier and associated reputation/authority behind the identity

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A colourful melange of fingerprints and faces representing identifiers and identity.
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