Blog post! 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...

Blog post! 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...

Blog post! If you’re working with agricultural or experimental data, Excel’s pivot tables can make summarizing results quick and intuitive. agrifooddatacanada.ca/introduction...

Blog Post! 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...

Blog post! Shared data research infrastructure for collective benefits. agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...

Blog post! Agri-food Data Canada (ADC) has created data documentation tools that can easily fit into the AI world. agrifooddatacanada.ca/ai-and-data/

Blog post! 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...

Blog post! From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: The Benefits of Shared Storage agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...

Blog post! Understanding metadata at ADC. Metadata is data that is about other data. Read more at our blog post. agrifooddatacanada.ca/understandin...

Blog post! 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...

Blog post! 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...

Wow, that's a lot of ways to name things! zenodo.org/records/1583...

Blog Post! 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-...

Blog post! Data Ownership – is it a thing? agrifooddatacanada.ca/data-ownersh...

Blog post! 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...

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.

🧵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/...

Blog post! 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...

Blog post! Architecture of OCA Schema Language - OCA embeds digests (specifically, OCA uses SAIDs) - OCA is organized by features agrifooddatacanada.ca/architecture...

Blog post! 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-...

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

Blog post! Format rules for data Format restrictions may seem technical, but they’re essential to building reliable, reusable, and clean data. agrifooddatacanada.ca/format-rules...

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

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

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....

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 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-NK... #FAIRdata #DataSharing #AgriData #Metadata

Blog Post! Historical data – challenges and more ownership quandries Extracting decades old data from the Ontario Forage Crops Committee (OFCC) forage crop trials. agrifooddatacanada.ca/historical-d...

Blog post! Identifiers and identities Identity is a combination of both an identifier and associated reputation/authority behind the identity agrifooddatacanada.ca/identifiers-...

Blog post! Research data and data ownership – the continuing saga The next question for researchers to consider becomes WHO is responsible for the data and what happens to it? agrifooddatacanada.ca/research-dat...

Voici le CCD-CI! Nous sommes le carrefour sur les données financé par @genomecanada.bsky.social afin d’améliorer la recherche dans les innovations en omique pour une agriculture et des systèmes alimentaires intelligents face au climat.

Introducing the CS-DCC! We are the data hub funded by @genomecanada.bsky.social to enhance omics innovations in climate-smart agriculture and food systems research. Follow us for genomics agriculture news, open-source data processing toolkits, community-developed data standards, training, & more!

New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

Blog post! There are many high quality vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies that researchers can use and incorporate into their schemas to help improve the quality and accuracy of their data. agrifooddatacanada.ca/standardize-...

Blog post! Do I own the data or not? The BIG question here – WHO owns this data? The supervisor – who is the PI on the research project you’ve been hired onto? OR you as the data collector and analyser? agrifooddatacanada.ca/own-data-or-...

Blog post! Introducing JSON schemas for OCA The Semantic Engine can continue to consume and use .zip schema bundles but now the default will be to export .json schema packages. agrifooddatacanada.ca/introducing-...

New blog post! Should we share our research data? "...if we go back and read the FAIR principles a little closer – you can see that they are referring to the (meta)data!!" agrifooddatacanada.ca/should-we-sh...

New blog post! Persistent identifiers (PIDs) play a crucial role in ensuring the longevity and accessibility of research outputs by providing stable, globally unique references to digital and physical objects. agrifooddatacanada.ca/resiliency-o...

Blog post! Decentralization and digests By reducing reliance on centralized authorities, digests as identifiers to digital objects used in research empower more flexible, FAIR, and scalable models for data sharing and governance. agrifooddatacanada.ca/decentraliza...

New blog post! Decentralization and Research The FAIR principles support more efficient and better decentralized and distributed systems agrifooddatacanada.ca/decentraliza...

New blog post! Data Ownership – another quandary to consider… Let’s talk about ethical use of the information – and create data use agreements rather than spin on the Who Owns the Data question? agrifooddatacanada.ca/data-ownersh...

New blog post! Upgrades to Data Entry Web tool After you document your data using the Semantic Engine you can verify the data against your rules. We've upgraded some of the features for sorting through your errors. agrifooddatacanada.ca/upgrades-to-...

We're hiring two Data Scientists! Data analysis & insights: Analyze data to generate insights and support strategic decisions. Data availability & engineering: Contribute to improving #metadata quality. Learn more and apply: https://www.crossref.org/jobs/2025-01-16-data-scientist/

Unique, persistent ORCID numbers reduce name confusion, not researchers themselves. 😉 Plus, you're always in control of how your data appears, and can reuse your record data with multiple other systems, in multiple workflows. So ORCID reduces your administrative burden, too.

Blog post! Data Schemas Out in the Wild Cataloguing schemas both for archival services and for active, ongoing, evolving research. agrifooddatacanada.ca/data-schemas...

The RDA proposes Complex Citations for more complete research traceability. The planned next step for this RDA output is to create a new working group to test, iterate, implement and promote adoption for Complex Citations into global working practice.

New blog post! Data Needs Context Context is essential to making data understandable and usable. Schemas provide this context by describing the structure and attributes of datasets in a standardized way. agrifooddatacanada.ca/data-needs-c...

Blog Post! From Siloed Systems to Shared Success: Why a Shared Infrastructure Makes Sense Shared infrastructure is about creating an environment where researchers can focus on advancing knowledge without being bogged down by IT challenges. agrifooddatacanada.ca/from-siloed-...

Join our monthly Getting Started on the OSF webinar every 2nd Monday at 11 AM ET! Learn how OSF supports open science and streamlines research workflows 🌟 Highlights: ✔ Guided feature tour ✔ Use case exploration ✔ Live Q&A 🔗 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

New blog post! What is a self-addressing identifier. Content-addressable identifiers like SAIDs are key to ensuring reproducibility in research. agrifooddatacanada.ca/what-is-a-se...

Blog Post! GitHub for Documentation Read our blog post to learn why GitHub can be used to write documentation, and find instructions on how to use GitHub specifically for writers! agrifooddatacanada.ca/github-for-d...