Agri-food Data Canada
@agrifooddatacan.bsky.social
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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ORCID and Decentralized Identifiers
Adding support for Decentralized Identifiers to ORCID would expand its capabilities to include authentication, digital signatures, secure communication, and cryptographically verifiable provenance.
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ORCID and Decentralized Identifiers
Adding support for Decentralized Identifiers to ORCID would expand its capabilities to include authentication, digital signatures, secure communication, and cryptographically verifiable provenance.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/orcid-and-de...
ORCID and Decentralized Identifiers - Agri-food Data Canada
On November 19th, Carly Huitema presented (YouTube link) at the Trust over IP 5-Year Symposium on emerging opportunities to use ORCID as a trust registry to help build secure, verifiable research data...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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ORCID and Decentralized Identifiers
Adding support for Decentralized Identifiers to ORCID would expand its capabilities to include authentication, digital signatures, secure communication, and cryptographically verifiable provenance.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/orcid-and-de...
ORCID and Decentralized Identifiers
Adding support for Decentralized Identifiers to ORCID would expand its capabilities to include authentication, digital signatures, secure communication, and cryptographically verifiable provenance.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/orcid-and-de...
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OCA Composer flexibility means the Composer can be incorporated into internal portals, research management systems, or open data platforms including Data Spaces
agrifooddatacanada.ca/supporting-d...
OCA Composer flexibility means the Composer can be incorporated into internal portals, research management systems, or open data platforms including Data Spaces
agrifooddatacanada.ca/supporting-d...
Supporting Data Spaces: OCA Composer - Agri-food Data Canada
In research environments, effective data management depends on clarity, transparency, and interoperability. As datasets grow in complexity and scale, institutions must ensure that research data is FAI...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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OCA Composer flexibility means the Composer can be incorporated into internal portals, research management systems, or open data platforms including Data Spaces
agrifooddatacanada.ca/supporting-d...
OCA Composer flexibility means the Composer can be incorporated into internal portals, research management systems, or open data platforms including Data Spaces
agrifooddatacanada.ca/supporting-d...
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If you’re working with agricultural or experimental data, Excel’s pivot tables can make summarizing results quick and intuitive.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/introduction...
If you’re working with agricultural or experimental data, Excel’s pivot tables can make summarizing results quick and intuitive.
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Introduction to Pivot Tables - Agri-food Data Canada
How Pivot Tables Simplify Analysis of Field Measurements If you’re working with agricultural or experimental data, Excel’s pivot tables can make summarizing results quick and intuitive. Instead of man...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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If you’re working with agricultural or experimental data, Excel’s pivot tables can make summarizing results quick and intuitive.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/introduction...
If you’re working with agricultural or experimental data, Excel’s pivot tables can make summarizing results quick and intuitive.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/introduction...
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/semantic-eng...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/semantic-eng...
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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October 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/semantic-eng...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/semantic-eng...
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Shared data research infrastructure for collective benefits.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
Shared data research infrastructure for collective benefits.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
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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September 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Shared data research infrastructure for collective benefits.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
Shared data research infrastructure for collective benefits.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
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Agri-food Data Canada (ADC) has created data documentation tools that can easily fit into the AI world.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/ai-and-data/
Agri-food Data Canada (ADC) has created data documentation tools that can easily fit into the AI world.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/ai-and-data/
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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September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Agri-food Data Canada (ADC) has created data documentation tools that can easily fit into the AI world.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/ai-and-data/
Agri-food Data Canada (ADC) has created data documentation tools that can easily fit into the AI world.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/ai-and-data/
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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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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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September 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/derived-iden...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/derived-iden...
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From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: The Benefits of Shared Storage
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
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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August 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: The Benefits of Shared Storage
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: The Benefits of Shared Storage
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
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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.
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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August 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Understanding metadata at ADC.
Metadata is data that is about other data. Read more at our blog post.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/understandin...
Understanding metadata at ADC.
Metadata is data that is about other data. Read more at our blog post.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/understandin...
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/all-the-data...
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...
agrifooddatacanada.ca
July 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/all-the-data...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/all-the-data...
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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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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???
agrifooddatacanada.ca/to-keep-or-l...
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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July 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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???
agrifooddatacanada.ca/to-keep-or-l...
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???
agrifooddatacanada.ca/to-keep-or-l...
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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?
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/can-you-use-...
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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July 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/can-you-use-...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/can-you-use-...
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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!
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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June 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/unit-framing...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/unit-framing...
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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.
June 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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🧵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/...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🧵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/...
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/...
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/custom-forma...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/custom-forma...
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...
agrifooddatacanada.ca
June 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/custom-forma...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/custom-forma...
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Architecture of OCA Schema Language
- OCA embeds digests (specifically, OCA uses SAIDs)
- OCA is organized by features
agrifooddatacanada.ca/architecture...
Architecture of OCA Schema Language
- OCA embeds digests (specifically, OCA uses SAIDs)
- OCA is organized by features
agrifooddatacanada.ca/architecture...
May 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Architecture of OCA Schema Language
- OCA embeds digests (specifically, OCA uses SAIDs)
- OCA is organized by features
agrifooddatacanada.ca/architecture...
Architecture of OCA Schema Language
- OCA embeds digests (specifically, OCA uses SAIDs)
- OCA is organized by features
agrifooddatacanada.ca/architecture...
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
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...
agrifooddatacanada.ca
May 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
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.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...
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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🌴🌴🌴
2024 dataset▶️ bit.ly/4kgv0Iu
2024 article▶️ bit.ly/3GRVPVa
2024 dataset▶️ bit.ly/4kgv0Iu
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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May 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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🌴🌴🌴
2024 dataset▶️ bit.ly/4kgv0Iu
2024 article▶️ bit.ly/3GRVPVa
2024 dataset▶️ bit.ly/4kgv0Iu
2024 article▶️ bit.ly/3GRVPVa
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Format rules for data
Format restrictions may seem technical, but they’re essential to building reliable, reusable, and clean data.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/format-rules...
Format rules for data
Format restrictions may seem technical, but they’re essential to building reliable, reusable, and clean data.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/format-rules...
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...
agrifooddatacanada.ca
May 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Format rules for data
Format restrictions may seem technical, but they’re essential to building reliable, reusable, and clean data.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/format-rules...
Format rules for data
Format restrictions may seem technical, but they’re essential to building reliable, reusable, and clean data.
agrifooddatacanada.ca/format-rules...
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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
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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
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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
May 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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
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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....
May 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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....